For years libraries have hired hundreds of student workers to maintain crucial functions in the library. Without student workers, libraries cannot provide essential services to the university community. Yet limited research exists on how libraries have developed professional career tracks for student workers and library staff. Investigators from Carbondale developed a survey to determine what p...

Beginning software engineering students often lack skills necessary to perform efficient programming work, such as comprehending or debugging program code. To facilitate the needs of students having different skill levels, teachers should be able to recognize the specific student groups. Bloom’s Taxonomy defines educational objectives for the development of students’ cognitive skills. This pape...

A commonly known and widely studied problem of massive open online courses (MOOCs) is the high drop-out rate of students. In this paper we propose and analyze the composition of small learning groups as a solution to this problem. In an experiment, we composed such small learning groups in a MOOC context using two methods: Random grouping and grouping by an algorithm that considers selected stu...

Can we tell a good professor from their students’ comments? And are there differences between what is considered to be a good professor by different student groups? We use a large corpus of student evaluations collected from the RateMyProfessors website, covering different institutions, disciplines, and cultures, and perform several comparative experiments and analyses aimed to answer these two...

Objectives To improve programs aimed to enhance medical student resiliency, we examined both medical student and faculty advisor perspectives on resiliency-building in an Asian medical school. Methods In two separate focus groups, a convenience sample of 8 MD-PhD students and 8 faculty advisors were asked to identify strategies for enhancing resilience. Using thematic analysis, two researcher...

It has been hypothesized that to maximize learning, intelligent tutoring systems should detect and respond to both cognitive student states, and affective and metacognitive states such as uncertainty. In intelligent tutoring research so far, student state detection is primarily based on information available from a single student-system exchange unit, or turn. However, the features used in the ...

Abstract Introduction: The problem of student indiscipline and the proper teacher-student interaction are issues that all teachers, including teachers in special schools, deal with them. The Purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teacher communication skills training on student indiscipline and teacherstudents interaction. Method: A quasi experimental design was empl...

A preliminary inventory was carried out for a sample of male and female student teachers who had email accounts. Preliminary inventory data revealed that the mean number of times per week that males used email was significantly higher than the mean number for female students. This inventory data indicated that characteristics such as gender affect Internet educational technology utilization, an...