Background Using Smith's (1986) cognitive-affective model of athletic burnout as a guiding framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among athletes' stress in life, negative thoughts, and the mediating role of negative thoughts on the stress-burnout relationship. Methods A total of 300 college student-athletes (males = 174; females = 126, Mage  = 20.43 y, SD = 1.68...

Educational games have become hugely popular, and educational data mining has been used to predict student performance in the context of these games. However, models built on student behavior in educational games rarely differentiate between the types of problem solving that students employ and fail to address how efficacious student problem solutions are in game environments. Furthermore, few ...

The introduction of virtual learning environments (VLEs) has been regarded by some as a panacea for many of the problems in today’s mass numbers modular higher education system. This paper demonstrates that VLEs can help or hinder student engagement and performance, and that they should be adapted to the different types of learner. A project is described that aimed to investigate whether the in...

PURPOSE It is very important to consider student's personality, aptitudes, and interest to choose an appropriate major or career. This study explored three overarching topics: Are there difference in vocational interest types by gender? Do students' vocational interest type concur with type related to medicine? Are the results of Strong Interest Inventory useful in student career counseling? ...

Human teachers are expected to improve with experience; they should learn how to handle different types of students, and learn which methods work for which learning difficulties. But how can a computerized teacher improve its skills over time after working with hundreds of students? How can it recognize that certain problems are too difficult for a student or identify which hints should follow ...

This paper describes an intelligent multimedia tutoring system for the passive voice of the English grammar. The system may be used to present theoretical issues about the passive voice and to provide exercises that the student may solve. The main focus of the tutor is on the student's error diagnosis process, which is performed by the student modelling component. When the student types the sol...

ITSPOKE is a spoken dialogue system that uses the Why2-Atlas text-based tutoring system as its “back-end”. A student first types a natural language answer to a qualitative physics problem. ITSPOKE then engages the student in a spoken dialogue to provide feedback and correct misconceptions, and to elicit more complete explanations. We are using ITSPOKE to generate an empirically-based understand...

For the past 3 years, the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Notre Dame has used electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) as an assessment tool for their Introduction to Engineering course sequence. While each year the ePortfolio assignments have expanded, they have been focused largely in three types of reflections: (1) student experiences within the college but outside of the cour...

there is a shortage of quantitative measures for assessing the concept of responsibility as a fundamental construct in medical education, ethics and professionalism in existing literature. this study aimed to develop an instrument for measuring responsibility in both undergraduate and graduate medical students during clinical training. instrument content was based on literature review and mainl...

background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...