Internationalization of education industry has increased the international student intake amongst private and public funded education providers in western countries. However, international students are faced with many challenges in different educational and societal settings of the host country. This study examines a case involving the information and communication technology (ICT) education se...

Improving student success and throughput rates are key challenges facing South African higher education. International research shows that a focus on student engagement can help to enhance student learning and other desired outcomes as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education systems. The paper documents the psychometric properties of the South African Survey of Student Enga...

In the increasingly serious environment of employment of college students, the college student credit evaluation model taking into account of the “basic personal situation”, “on-campus situation” and “economic situation” is employed in this paper for the purpose of improving the quality of college student credit education more efficiently, and in addition, a college student credit prediction me...

High-fidelity simulation (HFS) is an educational tool commonly used by professional education programs of medicine and nursing for student training and assessment. Although its use in occupational therapy (OT) education is emerging, implementation of simulation in OT education varies broadly across programs, and, in general, the tool remains underused. This paper describes how the OT education ...

Teacher educators need to have a clear picture of student teachers’ attitudes towards diversity, disability, learning and teaching, because this knowledge can be helpful in designing teacher education programmes which can prepare future teachers better for work in inclusive settings. Therefore, the study presented in this paper was designed to explore the attitudes of student teachers enrolled ...

A widely-cited result in the education production function literature is that the level of measured school inputs (e.g., student–teacher ratio or starting teacher salary) is not associated with differences in student achievement, all else equal. I argue that this result may be attributable in part to the restrictive functional form assumptions used in the existing literature. I use detailed nat...

Since the1990’s there have been multiple efforts to fix the broken pipeline at the K-12 level in computer science (CS) education [1-3], and most of those efforts have focused on the student motivational factor [4, 5]. The results of many studies in computer science education indicate that student motivation in computer science has been successfully increased by those efforts [4, 5], but most of...

We describe MUSST, a multilingual syntactic simplification tool. The tool supports sentence simplifications for English, Italian and Spanish, and can be easily extended to other languages. Our implementation includes a set of general-purpose simplification rules, as well as a sentence selection module (to select sentences to be simplified) and a confidence model (to select only promising simpli...

Text Simplification is the task of reducing the lexical and syntactic complexity of documents in order to improve their readability and understandability. This paper presents a web-based demonstration of a text simplification system that performs state-of-the-art lexical and syntactic simplification of English texts. The core simplification technology used for this demonstration is highly custo...