When you can't bring students to your campus for a high quality face-to-face cultural and language learning experience, can you effectively take the experience to them, thousands of miles and many time zones away? This is a question TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) educators around the world are asking themselves, both because of and in spite of the current state of co...

Remote Patient Management Systems (RPM) besides monitoring the health conditions of patients provide them with different information services that currently are predefined and follow one-size-fits-all paradigm to a large extend. In this work we focus on the problem of knowledge discovery and patient modeling by mining educational data, motivational and instructional feedback provided to patient...

quality of service (qos) is an important issue in the design and management of web service composition. qos in web services consists of various non-functional factors, such as execution cost, execution time, availability, successful execution rate, and security. in recent years, the number of available web services has proliferated, and then offered the same services increasingly. the same web ...

When attempting to identify educational settings that are most effective in improving student achievement, classroom process (that is, the way in which a teacher interacts with his or her students) is a key feature of interest. Unfortunately, high-quality assessment of the student-teacher interaction occurs all too infrequently, despite the critical role that understanding and measuring such pr...

BACKGROUND Physicians are continuously engaging in continuing medical education (CME) activities. Whether CME activities actually improve their knowledge and whether multiple media, instructional techniques, and exposures are better than single experiences are questions that are still under discussion. METHODS The Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center for Healthcare Research and Qualit...

Students' perceptions of instructional quality are among the most important criteria for evaluating teaching effectiveness. The present study evaluates different latent variable modeling approaches (confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory structural equation modeling, and bifactor modeling), which are used to describe these individual perceptions with respect to their factor structure, measur...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of different methods of self-talk (motivational, instructional, and combined) on acquisition and learning of a motor perceptional task (dart) and physical efficacy in female students aged between 13 and 18. 48 female students (mean age 15.46 yr) who were novice at dart throwing voluntarily participated in this study. participants were d...