ate program. This would leave 2 years of master’s work for truly advanced education and clinical work. This structure could parallel that in speech-language pathology; undergraduate audiology majors would receive two surveytype courses in speech-language pathology, just as current speech-language pathology majors receive such coursework in audiology. The focus, however, would be on audiology an...

In the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists suggests that sociology should be included within the speech and language therapy curriculum. However, in spite of this, sociology is seldom given priority. Although the role of sociology with the curricula of other professions has been discussed, the role of sociology within speech and language therapy has not. Given th...

Interactive Geometry is gaining momentum; it is becoming a core part of mathematics curriculum in several countries and is recognized as a major experimentation possibility for the discovery and acquisition of mathematical principles (see, e.g., [1]). Interactive geometry constructions’ however, are scattered in separate, tool-, nation-, and language-bound, communities. The aim of the project I...

BACKGROUND Medical educators have used the hidden curriculum concept for over three decades to make visible the effects of tacit learning, including how culture, structures, and institutions influence professional identity formation. In response to calls to see more humanistic-oriented training in medicine, the authors examined how the hidden curriculum construct has been applied in the English...

Using information and communications technology in education has changed the learning process from the perspective of student, teacher, activity, and evaluation. This paper reports a design method to achieve the goal of the curriculum studies— optimum curriculum design, which means that the curriculum will be evolutionary with the learning technology. This paper focuses on“product”technologies ...

Ninety-four Spanish-speaking preschoolers (M age = 54.51 months, SD = 4.72; 43 girls) were randomly assigned to receive the High/Scope Curriculum (control n = 32) or the Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum in English-only (n = 31) or initially in Spanish transitioning to English (n = 31). Children's emergent literacy skills were assessed before and after the intervention in Spanish and Englis...

Much research in education has been done on the study of different language teaching methods. However, there has been little investigation using computational analysis to compare such methods in terms of readability or complexity progression. In this paper, we make use of existing readability scoring techniques and our own classifiers to analyze the textbooks used in two very different teaching...

The teaching of compiler construction and language theory is absent from many current computing degrees, the rationale being that they are now irrelevant to modern software engineering practice. In this paper a case is made for the inclusion of at least certain aspects of compiler construction and language theory in computing degrees to support and reinforce the acquisition of software developm...

Exploring English Language Teaching in Ecuadorian Secondary Schools: Teachers’ Beliefs About the National Curriculum Reform

This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on children and computer programming by focusing on a programming language for children in Kindergarten through second grade. Sixty-two students were exposed to a 6-week curriculum using ScartchJr. They learned foundational programming concepts and applied those concepts to create personally meaningful projects using the ScratchJr program...