This article proposes to analyze governance in teaching as another form of organizational that promotes student participation decision-making for the improvement learning. The category emerges from research work "The systematization a transforming experience practice", at doctoral level, which is process Higher Institute Educational Sciences State Mexico. arises critical interpretation derived ...

eLearning collaborative pedagogy assumes that interaction is important for successful courses, yet questions exist regarding the nature and extent of the interaction and its effects on student performance. Although the majority of past studies focus on students’ perceptions of the quality and quantity of their interactions and the benefits they gained in e-learning, no research has examined the...

In order to address overall nutritional health, including increases in numbers of overweight children and adolescents, the San Francisco Unified School District implemented a progressive nutrition policy beginning in August 2003. We review this policy and focus on its impact on school and district revenues and students' participation in the federally subsidized school lunch program. We examined...

This paper presents the results of a six-week unit on seismology conducted in a fifth-grade classroom. The unique feature of the unit involved the use of classroom technology designed to support students' participation in an authentic seismological practice: the interpretation of seismograms to determine the epicenter and magnitude of earthquakes. The goals of the empirical study were (1) to ga...

Discussion forum and clickstream are two primary data streams that enable mining of student behavior in a massively open online course. A student’s participation in the discussion forum gives direct access to the opinions and concerns of the student. However, the low participation (5-10%) in discussion forums, prompts the modeling of user behavior based on clickstream information. Here we study...

For the past several years students in accounting at Macquarie University in Sydney have been offered the chance to participate in a peer-assisted learning program. This paper conducts a statistical analysis of the relationship between participation in peer-assisted learning and student performance, as measured by the final mark achieved in the unit offering peer-assisted learning. The paper pr...

Predictive models are able to predict edX student grades with an accuracy error of 0.1 (10%, about one letter grade standard deviation), based on participation data. Student background variables are not useful for predicting grades. By using a combination of segmentation, random forest regression, linear transformation and application beyond the segmented data, it is possible to determine the p...

In this paper, we present a novel approach to scaffolding student participation and learning within discussion forums using student mentors, i.e., course peers with relatively good understanding of a particular domain topic. First, we identify mentors using domain topic models, student discussion profiles, and a similarity comparison of the topics being discussed. Second, we provide an interfac...

Online classrooms present a challenge in offering student to student engagement. The traditional mean for this has been discussion threads, however levels of participation and quality of responses are frequent issues. Another issue, is the amount of time on the part of the instructor to review and grade discussion threads. This paper describes and simple and innovative way to use quizzes as pee...