The research reported here examined the relative effectiveness of semantic mapping, as an interactive pre-reading strategy, on reading comprehension of Iranian undergraduate students (non-EFL majors). It also examined whether there was an interaction between gender and the effect of teaching semantic mapping strategy on reading comprehension. The participants in this study consisted of 120 male...

Type of assignment: Internship/MSc Project Contact: Zoltan Papp ([email protected]) or Joris Sijs ([email protected]) Description Designing large-scale sensor networks (or large-scale distributed signal processing systems in general) is an extremely demanding task because complex balance should be maintained among many (frequently contradicting) requirements and constraints. The design process...

The Educational Technology Integration and Implementation Principles (eTIPs) are six statements that describe the K-12 classroom and school-level conditions under which the use of technology will be most effective. The eTIPs are an example of materials that can aid teachers in designing instruction and participating in creating supportive conditions for technology supported classroom instruction.

A significant body of the literature has documented potential Augmented Reality (AR) in education, but little is known about effects AR-supported instruction tertiary-level Medical Education (ME). This quasi-experimental study compares a traditional instructional approach with supplementary online lecture materials using digital handout notes control group (n = 30) and an educational AR applica...

Modern computer architectures expose an increasing number of parallel features supported by complex memory access and communication structures. Currently used task scheduling techniques perform poorly since they focus solely on balancing computation load across parallel features and remain oblivious to locality properties of support structures. We contribute with locality-aware task scheduling ...

Learning novel tasks is a complex cognitive activity requiring the learner to acquire diverse declarative and procedural knowledge. Prior ACT-R models of acquiring task knowledge from instruction focused on learning procedural knowledge from declarative instructions encoded in semantic memory. In this paper, we identify the requirements for designing computational models that learn task knowled...

Bootstrap Learning (BL) is a new machine learning paradigm that seeks to build an electronic student that can learn using natural instruction provided by a human teacher and by bootstrapping on previously learned concepts. In our setting, the teacher provides (very few) examples and some advice about the task at hand using a natural instruction interface. To address this task, we use our Induct...

The interplay of language and cognition in children’s development has been subject to research for a long time. The present study followed up on recently reported deleterious effects of articulatory suppression on children’s executive functioning (Fatzer & Roebers, 2012), aiming to provide more empirical evidence on the differential influence of language on executive functioning. In the present...