To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

The purpose of the research was to get insights into the ways learning strategies typically used by adult learners can be taken into consideration when designing web-based courses to facilitate learning in teacher education. Teacher students wrote narratives in discussion forums by completing various types of group projects. The relevant theoretical frameworks regarding the transfer effect, lea...

The emergence of e-learning as a vehicle for teaching and learning is presently unquestionable. This research aims to address the following issues related to this topic: (i) which modes and strategies of assessment to use in teacher education virtual learning environments; (ii) how to define the authenticity of the assessment strategies; (iii) which indicators to use in order to warrant the val...

Research suggests that children’s understanding of text can be improved by the explicit teaching of those comprehension strategies that are used implicitly by skilled readers, particularly the use of self-regulating strategies to generate questions about text. This study of the teaching of comprehension in 51 London Key Stage 2 classrooms explores the extent to which comprehension strategies ar...

Effective classroom management is not simply about intervention strategies. A positive teacher-student relationship is essential for both responding to and preventing behaviour issues. This article summarizes current thinking on classroom management, provides information and research supporting the importance of the teacher-student relationship and presents a sample of effective strategies for ...