Marking and provision of formative feedback on student assessment items are essential but onerous and potentially error prone activities in teaching and learning. Marking and Feedback Support Systems (MFSS) aim to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of human (not automated) marking and provision of feedback, resulting in reduced marking time, improved accuracy of marks, improved student sa...

|DATA-CHASER consists of two synergetic projects, DATA and CHASER, which ew together as a Hitchhiker payload aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in August of 1997. CHASER (Colorado Hitchhiker And Student Experiment of solar Radiation) is a solar science experiment used to test the primary DATA pay-load. A technology experiment, DATA (Distribution and Automation Technology Advancement) seeks to a...

This paper describes the evaluation of a speech-driven cartoon agent that has been embodied in the interface of a Web-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) authoring tool. The agent is mainly used in the student interface of the ITSs that are produced by the authoring tool and represents either a student or an instructor. The agent was evaluated during an experiment in terms of the effect t...

This research shows that active learning is not universally effective and, in fact, may inhibit learning for certain types of students. The results of this study show that as increased levels of active learning are utilized, student test scores decrease for those with a high grade point average. In contrast, test scores increase as active learning is introduced for students in the lower level g...

Based on the analyzing of current e-commerce experiment teaching and the rule of teaching e-commerce, the fundamental of e-commerce experiment design is presented and effective e-commerce experiment architecture is constructed. The proposed architecture integrated e-commerce project design, marketing, security, e-payment, logistics, etc. into B2C, C2C and B2B transaction mode. The percept of th...

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition on student achievement in cross-c...