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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"Educational context"”.
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Adapting a novel public display system for an educational context
… these universities face challenges in accessing educational information over the Internet due to high bandwidth costs, low literacy rates and the difficulty of setting up expensive computer labs. For example, at the University of Cape Town, labs are often overcrowded and fewer learners gaining …
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Toward automatic generation of multiple-choice questions in an educational context
… before. With it, we also witness the blossom of educational websites and articles online. While the emergence of these websites and content themselves are great for child and adult learners alike, most of them are not accompanied by such reviewing questions traditionally available in textbooks. …
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School-based health promotion: understanding the educational context to facilitate change
… understanding of these outcomes, and the school context as a venue to facilitate change, I adopted an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theory and evidence from the fields of both Public Health and Educational research, to consider and address existing knowledge gaps in the field. In the …
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Language Attitudes and Code-switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg
… that influence language choice in multilingual contexts. The pragmatic analysis of code-switching reveals that language choice inside the classroom is heavily influenced by the context in which it appears as students and teachers code-switch in order to achieve various context-bound goals such …
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Why do medical students fail? a study of 1st year medical students and the educational context
… to become independent learners while passive educational methods such as lectures and a heavy timetable are favoured and students receive limited formative feedback on their progress. The study ends positively, however, as I identify improvements that could be, and in some instances have been, …
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"Tinseltown as teacher" : a case study of historical feature films as interpretive sources of history within an educational context
… High School--a private, English language, co-educational school in Montreal, Quebec. Some of the issues addressed in this thesis are: the suitability of film as an academic source of historical knowledge, the persuasiveness of filmed presentations of historical events, the need to develop …
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An investigation into the relationship between the educational context and the written product of university EFL students with implications for the teaching of writing
… out through a longitudinal study of both the context and the product of writing across a four year EFL writing course. Findings suggest that the writing problems that students face are inherent in the writing pedagogy in current practice at the University. Most studies in ESL/EFL writing have …
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Teaching in a 21st Century Educational Context: A Case Study to Explore the Alignment between Vision, Instruction and the Needs of the 21st Century Workplace
… one secondary school, known for its high quality educational program, is infusing the pedagogical elements that are conducive for a 21st century education. The administration's vision along with teacher interviews and classroom observations were used to understand if the school was effectively …
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Identifying academic reading strategies in a multilingual context
… for Specific and Academic Purposes) multilingual educational context at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), in Mozambique
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Youth Unemployment in St. Lucia, the West Indies: Perceptions and Expectations on Education and Work
… perspective is brought to bear on the St. Lucian educational context to the end of discovering to what extent a society's views on education and jobs contribute to a better understanding of the problem of youth unemployment.
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Teachers' and students' 'relationships with knowledge' : an exploration of the organisation of knowledge within disciplinary and educational contexts
… knowledge, primarily in further education contexts. The disciplinary nature of students' engagement is frequently obscured by concerns relating to their engagement with educational processes. A model which distinguishes between different forms of knowledge and which places disciplinary …
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More than a Metaphor of Malfunction : Conceptualisations and Uses of Silence in the Worlds of Everyday Life and Teaching.
The word 'silence' is used in many different contexts and has been discussed from the perspective of various disciplines. This thesis compares how this complex concept is understood and embodied in the social practices of everyday life and teaching. The worlds of everyday life and the classroom are …
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Educational Decision making among Grade 9 learners in Cape Town
… exploratory, longitudinal study investigated the Educational Decision Making (EDM) of 16 Grade 9, Coloured, male learners from poor neighbourhoods in Cape Town. This study identified the socio-economic factors that influenced participants’ EDM to consider leaving the school system at the end of …
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Developing locating information in books in the fifth grade of the elementary school.
… collaboration between the researcher and the educational context. One of the schools was of a low socio-economic status, and the other was of a high socio-economic status. On the one hand the results strengthen the findings of the literature regarding the skill gaps of students and the lack of …
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The complexity of students' emotional processes in a discussion setting
To fully understand students’ learning in educational settings and to increase academic well-being, researchers have increasingly asked for more investigations of emotional processes and their interactions with other factors in educational settings. Classroom discussion has been recommended as a …
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"Socializing ""Good Enough Students"": A Contextualized and Ideographic Analysis of African American Students' Emotional and Identity Development"
… developing identities as students in a schooling context in which meeting academic standards and expectations of teachers required minimal engagement to achieve acceptable performance. Children were functioning effectively as ""good enough students,"" by successfully calibrating their efforts in …
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English proficiency testing and the prediction of academic achievement
… The main interest lies in the L2 group. The main educational context is a high school in the North West Province of South Africa.
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Identidade negra e a (des)construção de estigmas por meio do discurso: a atuação psicopedagógica para uma formação multicultural
… the Federal University of Paraíba, because the educational context is space for the construction of identity and stigma. The speeches in this space, remodeling the subjectivity of a social subject interfering in the construction of their identity and the look he has for other subjects. Used as …
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Colossal classroom adventure: Developing interactive fiction for English language learners
… to the genre. Then the uses of games in an educational context will be established to show the differences in teacher motivation toward the creation and use of gaming in education. Second Language Acquisition and ESL reading specific research will be used to create a set of guidelines for …
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Exploring Usage of Web Resources Through a Model of API Learning
… from online resources rather than in a formal educational context. The Kelleher–Ichinco COIL model, an acronym for “Collection and Organization of Information for Learning,” was recently developed to model the entire API learning process, drawing from information foraging theory, cognitive load …
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