The biologists searching for environmental understanding in geographical scale are gradually shifting to the use of remote sensing and geoprocessing techniques to better study the Earth. However, the rapid obsolescence of remote sensing teaching material, requires new methods and new languages to better achieve the coming students. Although theoretical material is absolutely necessary, there mu...

The necessity to maximize the learning success of the students as well as to produce professionals with the right skills to fulfil the market requirements, raises the question of closely following and assessing the learning paths of the students of Professional Schools. To solve at once problems and difficulties that arise during the learning process, we need to develop technologies and tools t...

Œe accuracy of learner model is the heart of any Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). More intelligence in the ITS needs a more accurate learner model. In the earlier versions of ITS, the student must submit a test before using the ITS. Œat test was used to build the student model, which contains information about the knowledge of the student, his/her misconceptions, preferences and other related...

5 Collective leadership is linked to student achievement through teacher motivation (strongest) and characteristics of work settings, such as school and district size, or the age of the students taught. Introduction Educational leadership can have strong, positive, although indirect, effects on student learning. The full report of our study—Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to I...

The theme of this year’s Peer Review Week is transparency. During the last few decades, I believe that a lack of transparency in the review process has degraded the field of scientific publishing. Authors were frequently left confused and angry when conflicting reviews lead to a rejection or when their paper received an obscure rejection and was not reviewed at all. Some journals still use the ...

there is a shortage of quantitative measures for assessing the concept of responsibility as a fundamental construct in medical education, ethics and professionalism in existing literature. this study aimed to develop an instrument for measuring responsibility in both undergraduate and graduate medical students during clinical training. instrument content was based on literature review and mainl...

s AN INTRODUCTION this paper will A review the current orientation of student personnel work. When it reached its full flowering in the thirties, student personnel work in higher education was concerned about individual differences. T o a considerable extent “the student personnel point of view” represented a recognition that educational procedures and educational goals must take cognizance of ...

All engineering students at Rowan University are required to take the 8-semester Engineering Clinic sequence wherein multidisciplinary student teams engage in semester-long design projects. In addition to projects that are funded by local industry, faculty research grants or departmental budgets, a Venture Capital Fund has been created, which is specifically ear-marked for the development of or...

Programming problems constitute a significant challenge for the development of tutoring systems, because they can be solved in many different ways. To help the student solve a programming problem effectively, the tutoring system must be able to cover a large space of possible solutions. If a student solution has shortcomings, the system must be able to identify the reason why that solution is n...