An Electronic textbook is a popular kind of educational applications onWorld Wide Web (WWW). We claim that adaptivity is especially important forWWW-based educational applications which are expected to be used by verydifferent groups of users without assistance of a human teacher. In this paper we describe an approach fordeveloping adaptive electronic textbooks and present InterBook anauthoring...

The MiGen project is designing and developing an intelligent, exploratory environment to support 11–14-year-old students in their learning of algebraic generalisation. Deployed within the classroom, the system is also providing tools to assist teachers in monitoring students’ activities and progress. This paper describes the architectural design of these Teacher Assistance tools and gives a det...

The University of Maryland University College’s (UMUC) Department of Education developed a program to increase achievement of secondary school students and increase retention of Master of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT) pre-service teacher candidates entitled, “Professional Partnerships”. “Professional Partnerships” is a tiered system of support that promotes stakeholder success by providing onl...

Teacher development has emerged over the last decade as an identiŽ able area of study and much has been written on the subject. The teacher development literature has served to disseminate information on and ideas for improving teachers’ and, by extension, schools’ performance. It has provided the forum for discussion about the future of the teaching profession and the nature of teaching as a j...

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I first examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition. I find that each disenfranchisement law lowered overall electoral turnout by 8-17% and increased the Democratic presidential part...

The structural complexity of the teacher education unit is pulled together by a common conceptual framework of teacher preparation that is supported by the missions of the university, the colleges and the departments. Our conceptual framework is continually evolving as it is influenced by our study of teacher preparation. We view our program as holistic and dynamic. While supported by the frame...

A new representative survey of primary schools in India indicates that 25% of teachers in government primary schools are absent on a typical day. Absence rates vary from 15% in Maharashtra to 38% in Bihar and 42% in Jharkhand. Male teachers, older teachers, more educated teachers, and head teachers are more likely to be absent. Teacher absence in private schools is 2 percentage points lower tha...

This research seeks to analyse and propose a solution to support classroom-based teaching in the Department of Chocó, Colombia, which is located in a rural area and has been the subject of many social projects for the development of its people. Due to the disparities in different regions of the country, the education sector is forced to look for new working environments that are suitable for ru...

This meta-analysis examines the association between teacher support and students' academic emotions [both positive academic emotions (PAEs) and negative academic emotions (NAEs)] and explores how student characteristics moderate these relationships. We identified 65 primary studies with 58,368 students. The results provided strong evidence linking teacher support and students' academic emotions...

In this report, we present TEACHER, a system for learning knowledge-lean heuristics under resource constraints. TEACHER is an implementation of a genetics-based learning framework we have dev eloped for improving the performance of heuristics in application problem solvers. Besides providing a flexible and modular framework for conducting experiments, TEACHER provides (a) a test-bed for experim...