In applied linguistics, washback, or backwash, refers to the influence of tests on teaching and learning. Though there is now a large body of research investigating the impact of tests on educational processes and outcomes, the possible effect of language tests on the psychological environment of language classrooms remains underexplored. This study examined the effect of IELTS on the classroom...

A sociocultural perspective on teacher learning was used to investigate how three beginning teachers’ conceptions of classroom management affected their developing teaching practices. Students were followed from student teaching through their first 2 years of teaching. Data sources included interviews, classroom observations, and teacher education portfolios. Although all three teachers shared ...

In a one-to-one collaborative learning classroom supported by ubiquitous computing and a distributed system runtime environment, teachers require tools that allow them to design learning scenarios, and to manage and monitor the activities happening in the classroom. We propose an architecture for a classroom management system and a scenarios designer tool (SceDer), both based on a Classroom Orc...

Okul öncesi dönemde eğitim alan öğrencilerin eğitim-öğretim yaşamlarının oldukça önemli olduğu ve bu durumun sonraki yıllarda hayatlarına etki edecek karakter oluşumunu etkilediği bilinmektedir. öğretmenlerinin sınıf yönetimine dair görüşlerini incelemek amacıyla yapılan çalışma kapsamında nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden iç içe geçmiş tekli durum deseninden yararlanılmıştır. 2018-2019 yılında öz...

This study aims at investigating which cues teachers detect and process from their students during instruction. This information capturing process depends on teachers’ sensitivity, or awareness, to students’ needs, which has been recognized as crucial for classroom management. We recorded the gaze behaviors of two pre-service teachers and two experienced teachers during a whole math lesson in p...