The C.R.E.A.T.E. (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, Think of the next Experiment) method uses intensive analysis of primary literature in the undergraduate classroom to demystify and humanize science. We have reported previously that the method improves students' critical thinking and content integration abilities, while at the same time enhancing their self-repo...

The General Certificateof Secondary Education (GCSE) in mathematics is designed to measure not only the mathematical knowledge of candidates, but also their ability to use mathematicsas a mode of inquiry. A number of British Awarding Bodies with large candidatures now offer GCSE Mathematics Syllabus B as an alternative to Syllabus A. The two assessment frameworks are identical except in their a...

Negotiation is an important part of task-oriented expert-consultation dialogues. This paper presents a plan-based model for understanding cooperative negotiation subdialogues. Our system infers both the communicative actions that people pursue when speaking and the beliefs underlying these actions. Beliefs, and the strength of these beliefs, are recognized from the surface form of utterances,fr...

We study a model where a group of self-interested agents negotiate over a set of resources. The agents believe that at the end of the negotiation phase a certain randomisation will take place: either the bundles of resources the agents have accumulated will get reassigned to other agents, or the valuation functions the agents use to assess the values of these bundles will get reassigned, or bot...

people with different cultures use different strategies in the process of negotiation and the success of international negotiations is dependent on the negotiators ' ability to communicate effectively in different cultural conditions. the aim of this study is to identify the differences between the negotiation style of iranian and korean managers. for this reason, this research utilized a ...

Although anxiety is an important component of individuals’ relationship with public speaking, it only represents a portion the story. Specifically, understanding attitudes toward speaking can help instructors develop improved methods for teaching and assessing student performance in speech classes, on oral communication-based university-level learning outcomes. This study addresses our lack tow...

This study was an attempt to investigate what metacognitive strategies are specifically employed by English learners when it comes to different speaking task types.60 students at advanced level (female) were randomly selected and given an OPT as a test of homogeneity. They were assigned to experimental and control groups. The MS questionnaire (Oxford, 1990) was also administered to see what MS ...