This study investigates the effects of unequal power relations on participation in a group of student teachers and invited professionals in two collaborative workshops in Second Life. The data includes recordings, group reflections, and individual questionnaires. Participation was examined from the aspects of floor space, turn length, and utterance functions and complemented with student reflec...

active participation of students in the course of teaching/learning process is one of the essential topics which have attracted many researchers, for the students' active participation causes the students to be mentally involved, thus increasing learning. in this paper, student and teacher talk was analyzed, using flanders' interaction analysis system. this was done for the purpose of determini...

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate contribution of a professional development program committed providing quality training support dialogic talk student active participation. Indicators participation, in the context this study, were speaking duration teacher compared student, number different ideas students emerging classroom milieu, answering per question asked by teacher, and rate stude...

Background. Universities are perceived as the hub for sports talent identification and development. This perception puts much pressure on student-athletes who are expected to excel in sport despite their academic commitments. Based on this expectation, students who participate in sports could be regarded as athlete-student, rather than student-athlete. Objectives. The study was carried out to ...

It seems common knowledge that school sport participation leads to all kinds of social, educational and health outcomes. However, it may also be that students with a certain predisposition, sometimes referred to as sporting habitus, are more inclined to participate in school sports and that the 'outcomes' were already present before participation. Several studies indicated that identity formati...

Kibble J. Use of unsupervised online quizzes as formative assessment in a medical physiology course: effects of incentives on student participation and performance. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 253–260, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00027.2007.—Online quizzes were introduced into a large Medical Physiology class to provide students with formative assessment before midterm and final summative examinations. Us...