In this paper I argue that assessment data can be helpful to teachers for practising effective pedagogy, but it can also inhibit effective teaching when it is used to control their practice. Effective pedagogy is defined as giving each learner the resources they need to progress successfully and confidently through school. The paper first introduces the Reading to Learn professional learning pr…
Many universities require end of course evaluations for all courses taught as tool for academic accreditation purposes. The reality is that often many academic departments either do not do anything or have no idea what to do when evaluations continue to be poor. As a result, students have fought back against this process to create their own on-line rating program, Rate My Professor.com, which a…
The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly in the domain of education (ICTE), has been recognized to benefit learning. This article aims to investigate the influential factors that affect the introduction of technology in an Indian rural primary school. The objective was to address current gaps in research by illuminating specific community factors that influenc…
Learning to write good computer code is a difficult task for introductory programming students. Students can learn what constitutes good programming practice, but actually writing a program requires a different kind of experience. Hence, programming assignments are an integral part of the learning experience in introductory programming courses. Instructors assign programming tasks to students a…
During the past ten years, radical changes in hardware and software have transformed the way instructional design and technologists do business in the classroom. The microcomputer has now become the standard operating tool when designing, developing, implementing and evaluating instruction at every level of our educational systems. Yet up until fifteen years ago, the microcomputer was the exclu…
Information and communication technologies have changed the way students learn, and higher education institutions in the Middle East region strive to attract professors who use technology in their daily teaching and learning practices. This study examines students' experiences in a web-enhanced computer science course. In an online survey based on the technological pedagogical content knowledge…
Children in special education too frequently are exposed to second-rate academic programs and inferior curriculums when compared to children in regular education. As a direct consequence, they show poor results on state examinations and are ill-prepared for future academic and workplace success. This article proposes rigorous ELITE Schools (Everyone Learning with Information Technology) as one …
This article describes how it is due to the fact that computer science is present in many activities of daily life, students need to develop skills to solve problems to improve the lives of people in general. This article investigates correlations between teachers' motivational orientations, beliefs and practices with respect to the application of real-world problems in undergraduate courses. A…
The purpose of this study was to understand the effectiveness of sexuality education training on the parents in the group regarding their sex knowledge, awareness of sexuality education, attitude towards sexuality education, self-efficacy in sexuality education, communication effectiveness and communication behavior in the hope that they would be able to talk to children about sex issues. Th…