This paper addresses two critical issues in mathematics education, the need: (a) to understand the nature of educator’s subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge; and (b) to find ways to measure them. It stems from a mixed-methods study designed to inspect the secondary mathematics teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) related to the area of a trapezoid, a common topic ...

The GALEN-IN-USE project has developed a compositional scheme for the conceptual representation of surgical operative procedure rubrics. The complex representations which result are translated back to surface language by a tool for multilingual natural language generation. This generator can be adapted to the specific characteristics of the scheme by introducing particular definitions of concep...

Critical thinking (CT) underpins the analytical and systems-thinking capacities needed for effective conservation in 21st century but is seldom adequately fostered most postsecondary courses programs. Many instructors fear that devoting time to process skills will detract from content gains struggle define CT ways relevant classroom practice. We tested an approach develop assess undergraduate b...

This study examined the faculty perspectives towards use of electronic rubrics and their rating behavior in a freshman composition course. A mixed-methods approach has been employed for data collection analysis. The were collected from nine instructors through semi-structured interviews behavior, six teaching same course Fall 2019, shared students’ essay scores with researchers. Many facet Rasc...

This article addresses the question of how the right to fork open source projects – to use the source code of an existing program to start a new, independent version – works as a governance mechanism to provide sustainability in open source software. The concept of sustainability is under debate, with numerous rubrics against which the sustainability of a product may be measured (e.g., Connelly...