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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Preparation of high school computer science teachers: the Israeli perspective
This special session examines frameworks for the preparation of high school computer science (CS) teachers from the Israeli perspective. Specifically, several Israeli CS teacher p...
Judith Gal-Ezer, Orit Hazzan, Noa Ragonis
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of construc...
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N...
CORR
2000
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
How to Evaluate your Question Answering System Every Day and Still Get Real Work Done
In this paper, we report on Qaviar, an experimental automated evaluation system for question answering applications. The goal of our research was to find an automatically calculat...
Eric Breck, John D. Burger, Lisa Ferro, Lynette Hi...
ICALT
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Virtual Instructor and Pedagogical Issues
The scope of implementing a virtual instructor is to achieve enhanced learning outcomes during an autonomous training (education) sessions of a human learner. Based on the evidenc...
Avgoustos A. Tsinakos