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Not so long ago I was asked to participate in qualitative research. This was an in depth intervju and I was assured anonymity. I said that I would only participate under my full name. The...

09 January 2019 9,261 5 View

For you, what is reflective research?

01 January 1970 6,340 5 View

What can teacher students learn from telling each other about their best experiences with teachers and learning during their own education?

I have a challenge that it would be interesting to get other teacher educators to try out with their own students. I have asked my own teacher students to tell me and each other about their best...

01 January 1970 5,276 19 View

What exercises do you use in class to help the students to interact and collaborate?

My students often make comments that they feel that they learn better if they get time to think individually, discuss further with the student sitting beside them and finally share their...

01 January 1970 5,938 97 View

What strategies do you have to empower your students?

It is a challenge to get students to take control over their own learning process. What strategies do you have to empower your students? How do you take an active role to facilitate this? What...

01 January 1970 9,974 6 View

When you are in a development or learning process, do you prefer "pencil and paper" or your computer?

I find that my computer often limits my thinking. I feel much more free in my thinking when I have paper and pencil. When you are in a development or learning process, do you prefer "pencil and...

01 January 1970 5,213 18 View

What exercises do you use in class to help the students reflect systematically over the topic they are working with?

How do you fasilitate reflection in your classes? What exercises do you use in class to help the students reflect systematically over the topic they are working with? It is good if you have...

01 January 1970 959 15 View

How can we further develop our schools that to a greater degree tap into the motivational forces within youth?

For youth, as for everyone else, life here and now is important and urgent. It is not easy to be continuously motivated for preparing for an unknown future. Motivational energy seems to be closely...

01 January 1970 8,101 3 View

What is the reason you became an academic?

Career guidance can for some be an important element in their choice of career. For some it is tradition og the wishes from parents. For some there was a path of many more or less intended...

01 January 1970 5,818 8 View

What is your university doing to make exams that are better suited for online use?

Some Norwegian universities are experiencing a lot of cheating on exams this semester. It is challenging to make online exams that are secured against cheating. Multiple choice exams are useless....

01 January 1970 3,655 46 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 3 View

Can we recognize signs of the "volatility clustering" property of a time series in its time domain plot?

My purpose is to recognize the volatility clustering property without statistical tests such as The Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test.

24 February 2021 4,150 3 View

How to constrain genetic algorithm input u?

My real system (buck converter) can only take an input of 0 to 1 (duty ratio) and I need to constrain the system so the controller action keeps within this bounds. How can I do this? The code for...

22 February 2021 2,125 3 View

Alternative to mediation analysis?

I am currently working on my dissertation and want to explore the role of competence as a mediator between the effect of colour of clothes on voting intention (focus on Western countries)....

21 February 2021 8,609 1 View

How we can measure Kemp % in wool without using of benzene?

Would you please let me to know about the methods for measurement of medullation and Kemp % on animal? My problem is that the wool sampling and sending to laboratory is not possible. So I would...

21 February 2021 7,260 4 View

Which statistical test to use for comparison of different groups in a categorization?

I am doing a study on how programmers with different levels of expertise choose class names. A description was provided to the participants together with a list of possible class names for the...

21 February 2021 3,662 4 View

Statistical Tests for Quantitative Study?

Hello Everyone, I have one population, sample size 200. and needed to find the correlation between Variable A and B. Also, which T-test should I choose for hypothesis testing Please advise...

21 February 2021 7,591 4 View

How COVID-19 has affected mental health?

The pandemic has led to depression and anxiety and its negative effects shouldn't be ignored. However, it has also led some people to become more resilient! What do you think? Thank you.

21 February 2021 4,733 19 View

Methodological confusions regarding deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothesis and theory test?

Hi Colleagues- What do you think about the following methodological issues: 1. Is it methodologically wrong to formulate quantitative research questionnaire based on inductive reasoning? 2. Is it...

21 February 2021 4,634 6 View