teachers can influence the complex process of learning in education, in general, and in second/foreign language (l2) learning in particular. in this light, understanding the factors influencing teachers’ pedagogical success can help l2 teachers achieve more effective teaching. this study then investigated the role of spiritual intelligence (si) in l2 teachers’ pedagogical success. in so doing, ...

Learning from experience is a central physiological and theoretical idea in adult language learning which has become increasingly important in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and is closely connected to task-based language teaching (TBLT). Accordingly, this study was designed to investigate the role of experience-based learning strategies in developing male and female intermediat...

The Pedagogical Assessment Workflow System (PAWS) is a new workflow-based pedagogical assessment framework that enables the efficient and robust integration of diverse datasets for the purposes of student assessment. The paper highlights two particular e-learning workflows supported by PAWS. The first workflow correlates student performance, as measured by project grades, with different dialogu...

Database (DB) modelling is the foundation of an efficient database. Similar to other design tasks, database modelling requires extensive practice to excel in it. Conventionally, DB modelling is taught in classrooms where the task of modelling a typical database is demonstrated and students practice in tutorials. Even though one-to-one human tutoring is the most effective teaching method, there ...

Commercial computer games have great potential as learning tools as many require complex problem solving, theory testing, collaboration, and evaluation, all components of experiential learning (Gee 2003). Indeed, Schrader, Zheng, and Young (2006) argue that there are many benefits to be derived from the pedagogical use of commercial computer games, particularly massively multiplayer online game...

Plan recognition techniques frequently make rigid assumptions about the student's plans, and invest substantial effort to infer unobservable properties of the student. The pedagogical benefits of plan recognition analysis are not always obvious. We claim that these difficulties can be overcome if greater attention is paid to the situational context of the student's activity and the pedagogical ...

This paper describes a method that utilized technology to collect and collate quantitative and qualitative data about pre-service teachers’ use of networked technologies during a 12-week undergraduate course, and the impact of this use on their pedagogical beliefs regarding the integration of information and communications technology (ICT). The technologies used captured and analysed students’ ...

Novice Computer Science (CS) students struggle learning recursion for reasons such as unfamiliarity with recursive thinking and difficulty in visualizing program execution. Many tasks in CS require a thorough understanding of recursion. We introduce the recursion module of ChiQat-Tutor, an environment for learning CS algorithms and data structures. ChiQat-Tutor uses the pedagogical tool of Recu...

A national programme to train all existing teachers in the use of ICT has given valuable insights into a range of factors concerning the implementation, integration and effect of using ICT in science teaching. In particular, the pedagogical role of the teacher emerges undiminished by the technology, but retains vital functions such as forging links between the products of web searching and othe...

Identification of significant differences in sets of data represents frequent data mining application. This paper presents initial study introducing application of MATLAB in the area of educational data mining tasks. In the concrete, statistical test called Analysis of Variance is used to determine significant difference of data sets analyzed. The study has been performed on real data coming fr...