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Sabrina Girletti; Marie-Aude Lefer – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
In recent years, machine translation post-editing (MTPE or PE for short) has been steadily gaining ground in the language industry. However, studies that examine translators' perceptions of, and attitudes towards, MTPE paint a somewhat negative picture, with PE pricing methods and rates being a major source of dissatisfaction. While the European…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Language Processing, Second Language Instruction
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Aditya Anupam; Ridhima Gupta; Shubhangi Gupta; Zhendong Li; Nora Hong; Azad Naeemi; Nassim Parvin – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
The abstract nature of quantum mechanics makes it difficult to visualize. This is one of the reasons it is taught in the language of mathematics. Without an opportunity to directly observe or interact with quantum phenomena, students struggle to develop conceptual understandings of its theories and formulas. In this paper we present the process of…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Educational Games, Teaching Methods
Tate, Pamela; Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2015
Competency-based education (CBE) is the hot new thing in higher education. While forms of CBE have been around since the 1970s, there has been a surge of interest in CBE, with more than 600 postsecondary institutions now reporting that they are either offering competency-based degree programs or are planning to do so. Similarly, institutional…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Prior Learning, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
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Andrietti, Vincenzo; Su, Xuejuan – Education Economics, 2019
We propose a theory of education curricula as horizontally differentiated by their paces. The pace of a curriculum and the preparedness of a student jointly determine the match quality of the curriculum for this student, so different students derive different benefits from learning under the same curriculum. Furthermore, a change in the curricular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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Ylizarde, Natalie Harr; Kiorpes, Lolita Cariaso – Science Teacher, 2018
Climate change is complex, requiring critical thinking on both local and global scales. Its effects vary dramatically around the world and require new strategies to help students grasp its complexity, scale, and interrelatedness. This article describes a project to help biology students think critically about climate change from a global…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Environmental Education, Science Instruction
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Guo, Shibao – International Review of Education, 2014
This paper revisits and revisions Education for All (EFA) in the age of global migration with the aim of developing more inclusive approaches towards social justice and equity in education. Drawing on cases of internal and international migration in China and Canada, this paper compares and contrasts policies and practices in the education of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Migration, Lifelong Learning, Global Approach
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Richey, J. Elizabeth; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
A central goal of the learning sciences is to discover principles that determine the optimal amount of instructional assistance to support robust learning (Koedinger & Aleven, 2007). We examined learning outcomes from providing and withholding stepwise instructional explanations as students studied worked examples and solved physics problems. We…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Learning Processes
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Harding, Terry – Distance Education, 2012
This reflection outlines the problems associated with the Australian Government's recurrent funding policy for non-government distance education. It demonstrates the policy's inconsistencies with stated government educational policy and with commonly held expectations of fairness in a democratic society. A comparison of the current funding of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Distance Education, Democracy, Prior Learning
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Lobato, Joanne – Educational Psychologist, 2012
Although any mainstream thought is subject to theoretical challenges, the challenges to the mainstream cognitive perspective on transfer have had an unfortunate divisive effect. This article takes a pragmatic view that transfer perspectives are simply designed objects (Plomp & Nieveen, 2007), which provide different information for different…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Transfer of Training, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Schultz, John – Principal, 2010
Teachers act out a play every day that includes soliloquies, dialogue, questions, cues, and demonstrations to evoke a response from their audiences. Learning requires that the students--or audience--see a new concept in a motivating and dynamic environment, a setting that provokes inquiry and an understanding of how new knowledge applies to real…
Descriptors: Cues, Theater Arts, Educational Research, Audiences
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Matson, Trista; Henning, Mary Beth – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2008
Inquiry is the process by which teachers give students an open-ended question, and then students investigate the evidence and draw conclusions based upon their findings. This method promotes critical thinking, as students cite evidence to support their opinions. Inquiry is most effective when it builds upon students' prior knowledge. To promote…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Critical Thinking, Grade 6, American Indians
Rus, Vasile; Lintean, Mihai; Azevedo, Roger – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
This paper presents several methods to automatically detecting students' mental models in MetaTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that teaches students self-regulatory processes during learning of complex science topics. In particular, we focus on detecting students' mental models based on student-generated paragraphs during prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Prior Learning, Cognitive Structures, College Students
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Lawrence, Lisa Jean – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
The following article discusses cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies and the use of them particularly among bilingual students. It distinguishes between the two types of strategies. Strategy use among monolingual and bilingual students are described and compared. The article focuses on the need for strategy instruction, particularly…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Academic Discourse, Teaching Methods, Reciprocal Teaching
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Zwaan, Sandi; Koechlin, Carol – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses strategies that teachers and school librarians can use for building student understanding of content and the research process. Topics include the interdependence of information skills; being aware of students' prior knowledge and experience; comparing data; and building the research process with information processing skills. (LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Skills
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Najjar, Lawrence J. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1996
Reviews empirical studies from a wide variety of fields to show that computer-based multimedia instruction may be able to help people learn more information more quickly compared to traditional classroom lecture. Topics include interactivity; control of learning pace; novelty; and learners with low prior knowledge or aptitude. (103 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction
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