We thank participants at seminars and conference presentations at Harvard University, NBER,APPAM, and AEFA for their useful feedback. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ABSTRACT Rates of employee absences and the effects of absences on productivity are topics of conversation in many organiza...

The present study attempts to uncover language teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback. It also explores the role of teachers’ experiences in their choice of error correction techniques. To achieve the purpose of the study, 137 foreign language teachers were asked to fill out the developed questionnaire and follow-up interviewed were conducted with 10 teachers, five novice and experien...

Introduction. This study, based in a Scottish secondary school, aimed to examine the views of students who were completing work experience, on their information literacy practices, and the differences they found between the school and workplace information environments while on work experience. The views of guidance teachers were also explored. Method. The study used a constructivist grounded t...

To enable teachers to monitor student engagement and improve classroom instruction, a data mining method and an Excel macro are developed in this work. The data mining method is based on a Time Series Cross Section (TSCS) framework and designed for application to students’ page views of course materials that are created over Moodle. The Excel macro generates TSCS tables of students’ page views ...

Research efforts focused on developing "active reports" are currently underway. Active reports are designed to foster communication among teachers, students, and parents by listening to all stakeholders, using assessment information to guide teaching and learning, and to reconcile potential conflicts. Open student models can handle different views of the student. These views support different k...

BACKGROUND Many medical schools have embraced small group learning methods in their undergraduate curricula. Given increasing financial constraints on universities, active learning groups like seminars (with 25 students a group) are gaining popularity. To enhance the understanding of seminar learning and to determine how seminar learning can be optimised it is important to investigate stakehold...