Response to Intervention (RtI), a cyclical process that incorporates assessment and instruction, is both an approach to prevent learning difficulties and to establish student eligibility for special education. Assessment results are used to determine students' initial knowledge and skill, their need for successively more intensive levels of instruction, and to gauge their response to the interv...

Orthodontic records-study models, panoramic and cephalometric radiographs, and the patient's facial and intraoral photographs-are used to collect data to establish a diagnosis and to develop problem-solution lists. These records, however, can be damaged or lost when dispensed to students and need to be stored and maintained every year. An orthodontic diagnosis web site, therefore, has been set ...

Jason M. Blank is Associate Professor and Elena L. Keeling is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences; Karen J. McGaughey is Assistant Professor and Conor C. Shannon is Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Department of Statistics; and Jeanine M. Scaramozzino is Associate Librarian in Robert E. Kennedy Library; all at California Polytechnic State University; e-mails: jmblank@cal...

Although the literature on flipped instruction to date appears to be relatively atheoretical, the benefits listed in the flipped literature fit well with theories of optimal learning environments (e.g., Egbert, Hanson-Smith, & Chao, 2007) and student engagement (Lin, 2012, and others). This conceptual paper links flipped instruction to these two models and then briefly describes an ESL teacher ...

A great deal of data show that diagnostically-tailored instruction is superior to untailored instruction. Thus, an important way in which automated instructional systems differ is in the degree to which their instruction is modified by an inferred model of the student’s internal representation of the subject matter. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), the newest generation of automated instruct...

The post methods era has witnessed a dramatic change inapproaches to and methods of teaching as well as testing. At the heart of such a change, collaborative learning has received top priority and testing domain has actually gone under scrutiny. This new mode of education has made stakeholders, especially in higher education; reflect on an interactive e-assessment based instruction. Such a cybe...

The post methods era has witnessed a dramatic change inapproaches to and methods of teaching as well as testing. At the heart of such a change, collaborative learning has received top priority and testing domain has actually gone under scrutiny. This new mode of education has made stakeholders, especially in higher education; reflect on an interactive e-assessment based instruction. Such a cybe...