The rise of bilingual education triggers an important question: which language is preferred for a particular school activity? Our field experiment (n = 120) shows that students (aged 13-15) who process feedback in non-native English have greater self-serving bias than students who process feedback in their native Dutch. By contrast, literature on the foreign-language emotionality effect suggest...

In the classroom, teachers know how to motivate their students and how to exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimize their instruction when a student shows signs of demotivation. In on-line learning environments it is much more difficult to assess a learner’s motivation and to have adaptive intervention strategies and rules of application to help prevent attrition or dropout. In this paper, we...

Basic control courses are often attended by students from many different study programs. Many of these students are mainly interested in solving practical problems, whereas the lecturer usually aims at teaching profound knowledge of the analysis and control of dynamical systems. This gap between the application-oriented expectation of the learner and the theoryfocused material chosen by the lec...

This article will present a model for how ‘depression’ (i.e. depressive symptoms) can be divided into four self-diagnosed sub-types or causes which might then be self-treated using agents available without prescription. (Another, much rarer, cause of depressed symptoms is the classical illness of ‘melancholia’, which when severe cannot be self-treated and typically requires hospitalization.) A ...

We investigate whether erroneous examples in the domain of fractions can help students learn from common errors of other students presented in a computer-based system. Presenting the errors of others could spare students the embarrassment and demotivation of confronting their own errors. We conducted lab and school studies with students of different grade levels to measure the effects of learni...

İn this paper the Balthazar approach is introduced, which is a projectbased series of workshops for intergenerational teams focusing on peer-to-peer sharing and learning of skills while tackling specific societal challenges. The Balthazar approach is presented as both an attempt to tackle post-retirement demotivation and isolation of senior adults and as an evolution of the participatory design...

Integrated community case management (iCCM) is a recommended strategy to curb child mortality. Drawing on diffusion of innovations (DOIs), the acceptability and adoption of iCCM were qualitatively explored. Data from focus group discussions and interviews with community members, community health workers (CHWs), and supervisors conducted in seven communities were analyzed using content analysis....

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate an L2 learner’s motivation during his involvement in language learning. Specifically, it sought conceptualize the (de)motives that might have impact on participant’s learning process and reconceptualize, sense, above referring Activity Theory (AT). To end, attempted examine whether there were any changes within framework AT. scrutiny data rev...