one of the factors influencing the athletes’ performance in critical situations is their awareness of the strategies entailing mental skills. one such skill is self-talk that has been identified as an effective mental training tool in controlling human beings’ behaviors. this study aims to examine the perceived positive and negative effects of self-talk on the athletes’ performance. data were c...

—This paper presents two different approaches for utilizing virtual environments to enable learning for both human and robotic students. In the first approach, we showcase a 3D interactive environment that allows a human user to learn how to interact with a virtual robot, before interaction with a physical robot. In the second approach, we present a method that utilizes a simulation environment...

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate contribution of a professional development program committed providing quality training support dialogic talk student active participation. Indicators participation, in the context this study, were speaking duration teacher compared student, number different ideas students emerging classroom milieu, answering per question asked by teacher, and rate stude...

The university is currently involved—within Europe—in a process of coordinating higher education for adaptation to the new ECTS European credits, which implies changing from a teacher-centred model (teacher conveys knowledge) to a learner-centred model, a real challenge. Since 1996, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has been carrying out the “Campus Virtual de la UAB” project. This pl...

This issue of CSSE brings together four articles all of which deal with themes that are central to the enterprise of science education. Sonya Martin articulates how she, as a practicing teacher, implemented cogenerative dialogues in her classes, that is, how she implemented a new form of praxis in which teacher and students are provided with opportunities to talk about science curriculum and cl...

Recently, robust speech recognition for real-world applications has attracted much attention. This paper proposes a method based on the teacher-student learning framework domain adaptation. In particular, student network will be trained novel optimization criterion defined by encoder outputs of both teacher and networks rather than final output posterior probabilities, which aims to make noisy ...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of overt and covert motivationalself-talk on perceived exertion and performance in a progressive exercise untilexhaustion in wrestlers. the population consisted of wrestlers in urmia and 15volunteer subjects were selected. this study was performed in three sessions with aone-week interval. the first session was held without self–talk while the sec...