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A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Gaussian processes, which provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines.

The integration of ICT in education entails several challenges: the first, to diagnose, at a global level, how this process is being carried out in different educational fields. Likewise, another challenge is to analyze ...

Emotional Intelligence for ESL Classrooms is my contribution to English language teaching. Rather than aiming at writing this book, the activities shaped themselves one day into the form of this book after completing my ...

There are several reasons why English language teachers may embark on the endeavor to develop teaching and learning materials for the EFL population in rural schools. This book presents some of those reasons by means of ...

Family and community in and out of the classroom introduce the reader to the field of family engagement in mathematics teaching and learning processes. Scientific evidence collected by the European Union throughout many ...

The present volume represents a compilation of international teacher education practice and research with a focus on Teacher Education for Contemporary Contexts. It draws upon the diverse educational perspectives, teachi...

We are pleased to present to the entire academic community and the general public the following work, which contains recent research results of a group of teachers from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in areas such a...

Este artigo busca salientar a importância da metacognição para os processos de aprendizagem e para o sucesso escolar. Para tanto, discute a necessidade de se construir, nas salas de aula, uma cultura do pensar, que pr...

Skinner defines verbal behavior as an operant shaped and maintained by consequences mediated by others. Therefore, it could be explained through the description of organism-environment functional relations. However, in h...

Este texto tem como objetivo revelar o sentido da experiência escolar para jovens de camadas médias, alunos de uma instituição privada confessional, da zona sul da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Algumas questões serviram...

This paper presents an analysis of the aspects to take into account when reformulating the teaching and learning processes of a first course of Algorithmics employing elements of Distance Education in a Web-based virtual...

No presente artigo tenho o objetivo de abordar algumas questões relativas aos testes utilizados nos processos psicodiagnósticos de crianças consideradas portadoras de dificuldades de aprendizagem. Tomando como pano de...

A sala de aula é o espaço privilegiado de negociações e de produção de novos sentidos e significados a respeito, principalmente, dos diferentes conceitos escolares. Isso acontece em uma rede interativa complexa em ...

Cognitive Informatics is a new research area that combines concepts from cognitive sciences and informatics. Particularly, classification according to cognitive styles or learning styles is a common practise in education...

Nowadays, the new technologies challenge the educational practices. When teachers face this new teaching and learning pattern they need to adopt a different attitude: of a mediator, in which one its main role is to exper...