OBJECTIVE Due to the development of medical education in the past decade the role of teachers has changed and requires higher didactic competence. Student evaluation of teaching alone does not lead to considerable improvement of teaching quality. We present the concept of "Integrative Teaching Consultation", which comprises both the teacher's reflection and own objectives to improve their teach...

Eliciting student participation in large college classes is notoriously difficult yet critical to learning. This paper describes a design experiment with a computer-mediated feedback system for promoting class interaction. We delineate specific challenges to interaction and propose design principles to address them in computer-mediated systems. A prototype realizing these principles establishes...

The learning process in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) environments is complex and may be influenced by aspects of the student, including prior knowledge, learning styles, experience and preferences. Current AEH environments, however, are limited to processing only a small number of student characteristics. This paper discusses the development of an AEH system which includes a student mo...

THE IMPACT OF ACADEMIC OPTIMISM ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTIN FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS

Our paper addresses firm size as a driver of systematic credit risk in loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Key contributions are the use of a unique data set of SME lending by over 400 German banks and relating systematic risk to the size dependence of regulatory capital requirements. What sets our sample apart is its comprehensive coverage of the particularly rich and well developed ...

To identify the indices of competency for student-teachers in Physical Education and factors that influence them, 22 expert were interviewed and 324 student-teachers from all over the country were given a questionnaire. Data analyses revealed that competency has four sets of indices in the areas of subjective-educational, educational, subjective, and general. Factors affecting these competencie...

This investigation postulatesVygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (ZPD) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as Norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.Thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an Iranian EFL writing...

This paper investigates the impacts of teacher characteristics on student performance using a nationally representative and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having more experienced or female homeroom (HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores cognitive noncognitive abilities. In contrast, these effects are not ob...