Turing machine (the author asserts that it has never been built?), nonstandard logics, or nonmonotonic reasoning. The chapter on expert systems does not really explain what an expert system is, nor how it works, nor how it could be used by a CALL system. So these topics will be rather confusing for the nonspecialists. To conclude, it seems to me that this book will not contribute to familiarizi...

Objective. Expert clinical teachers in medicine use teaching scripts. The aim of this study was to determine whether pediatricians also use common components of teaching scripts. Methods. Seventy-three pediatric clerkship directors identified anticipated errors and teaching points in response to two short vignettes. The content analysis of responses, which we completed, was analyzed by rank and...

Through the inception of the Chartered Teacher Programme in Scotland there is the intention that continuing professional development can enable teachers to become increasingly effective in promoting learning in the classroom (Scottish Executive, aim since what is meant by learning (and its promotion) is not contextualised either in learning in any coherent way. The implications of such a ‘non-l...

Ultra-large-scale interactive systems on the Internet have begun to change how teachers prepare for instruction, particularly in regards to resource selection. Consequently, it is important to look at how teachers are currently selecting resources beyond content or keyword search. We conducted a two-part observational study of an existing popular system called TeachersPayTeachers hypothesizing ...

Ultra-large-scale interactive systems on the Internet have begun to change how teachers prepare for instruction, particularly in regards to resource selection. Consequently, it is important to look at how teachers are currently selecting resources beyond content or keyword search. We conducted a two-part observational study of an existing popular system called TeachersPayTeachers hypothesizing ...

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...

The spreadsheet is not a priori a didactical tool for mathematics education. It may progressively become such an instrument through the process of professional geneses on the part of teachers. This chapter describes the beginning of such a genesis, and presents some results concerning teachers’ professional development with spreadsheets by examining the outcomes of two different sets of data. T...

In a recent study of teachers who had reputations as being expert computer users, researchers at the Bank Street College of Education identified teachers who used computer software to provide intellectually exciting educational experiences (Sheingold & Hadley, 1990; Hadley & Sheingold, 1993). In the Bank Street study, the exemplary practitioners directly addressed curriculum goals by having stu...