Engineering students acquire both conceptual and procedural knowledge as part of their education. While conceptual knowledge, such as understanding why certain design practices are required or having knowledge of the general principles of engineering development, is essential, procedural knowledge to enact specific engineering practices is also needed. This kind of knowledge, such as balancing ...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to elucidate the links between declarative knowledge, procedural and performance in context ISO 9001:2015 certification. It develops a model which tests impact training rewarding on employees’ motivation. effects motivation contextual task performance. conducted Turkey using data collected from 423 employees working various firms operating textiles, food pr...

Preparing preservice teachers for ICT integration in the classrooms is a key focus for many teacher education institutes. This paper examines the perceived development of preservice teachers in terms of their technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, content knowledge and the synthesis of such knowledge, i.e., the technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK). A questionnaire ...

in teaching a foreign language (fl), some cultural specificities (defined under the rubric of ‘little-c culture’) may totally conflict with the cultural norms of the learners’ first language (l1). to prevent such imminent problems, this paper recommended that the fl syllabus be designed in a way so as to equip learners with an intimate knowledge of the target language culture, and that language...

Teacher professional development, as a burgeoning term, has attracted a surge of interest in English language teaching. In second language (L2) professional development, the common orthodoxy has been one which considers teachers as that of knowledge consumers. It is commonly argued that top-down approaches to teachers’ professional development has done little to maximize teachers’ professionali...

This paper explores how teachers in schools share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas; what are their preferences in knowledge sharing practices; what tools they use, and what problems they face in sharing knowledge. Unstructured interviews were conducted to gain an in-depth understanding of the perceptions of teachers. Teachers saw sharing with colleagues as a way to increase their learnin...

This paper presents AI applications of the recently proposed Transaction Logic (abbr., 7-7z) [2]. Transaction Logic is a novel formalism that accounts in a clean and declarative fashion for the phenomenon of updating first-order knowledge bases, most notably, databases and logic programs. Transaction Logic has a natural model theory and a sound-and-complete proof theory. Unlike many other logic...