The knowledge management in e-learning systems is classified into knowledge about students, strategies of teaching and learning, management of the learning content, and the system management. The construction of the student’s knowledge, namely the student model, is a core component used to develop an intelligent e-learning system. The student model can be used as an effective method of learning...

Fifty years after the landmark Brown u. Board of Educationl decision, we review student civil rights in the context of current educational policies and practices. Using the highly publicized drug raid at Stratford High School in Goose Creek, South Carolina, we analyze the legal and policy issues raised by the raid. As did Brown v. Board of Education, we evaluate the important psychological effe...

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The teacher/student relationship is considered to be cultural, but it is also pedagogical, as it is established by means of the knowledge intentionally taught and learned. In this scene, the teaching activity must, necessarily, include moments of reflection and criticism, during which the meaning and the teaching methods must be brought about by presenting the student with one's own perspective...

the main purpose of this research is the exploration functions of question in the understanding process and features of teacher and student as a questioner. for this purpose is used conceptual analysis and deductive method. so according to study question has a key role in the understanding and has some tasks in its steps: enable pre-understanding and prejudices, challenging text in the detailed...

BACK IN THE 1960S, I USED my MD degree to sneak into experimental biology laboratories and spent 4 decades learning how to perform and think about experiments under the guidance of scientists with Ph.D. degrees, sometimes helping Ph.D. students to learn the same skills. Those experiments prompted me to ask 2 questions. First, must the average biomedical Ph.D. student take more than 6 years to g...

This article applies Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) (Inayatullah, 2004) as a framework to examine factors that affect applying a student-centered learning approach in Vietnam. The Four layers of CLA help disclose weaknesses in the current traditional learning approach, causes that create the problems and hidden beliefs that keep traditional perceptions about learning permanent. The results revea...

Scholars in student learning have shown a growing interest in using Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) as a cooperative learning technique in classroom teaching. This study explores the effects of STAD on student achievement, attitude and motivation in economics education. Three research instruments, a Test of Economic Literacy (TEL); a Motivation Scale and an Economics Modular Test wer...

iii Acknowledgement To God be the glory for the things He has done! Thanks to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me the strength and fortitude to make this endeavor a reality. A very special thanks to the loves of my life—Pamela, my darling wife, and Joneya, daddy's little princess—your encouragement and support have been unwavering and I love both of you immensely. Now that this is don...