Designing a humane multimedia interface for the visually impaired     

Claude Ghaoui  M. Mann  Eng Huat Ng 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2001,26(2):139-149

Whilst graphical user interfaces (GUI) have gained much popularity in recent years, the need of the visually impaired to use applications in a non-visual environment is great. This paper promotes the provision of interfaces that allow users to access most of the functionality of existing GUIs using speech. This has been achieved by the design of a speech control tool that incorporates speech recognition and synthesis into existing packaged software, such as Teletext, the Internet or a word processor. The tool developed has taken the menu structure as a means of demonstrating what is accessible by the use of speech input and output. The tool provides the facility to dump screen text into clipboard and read it out loud. Adapting existing GUI applications in this way requires successful integration of speech, which in turn requires a profound understanding of the medium and the development of human engineering techniques.  相似文献   

Self-schematic students in mathematics and their contrasting coping responses to mathematical challenges: a cluster analytic investigation     

Ng  Clarence 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2021,107(2):315-338

Educational Studies in Mathematics - Mathematics self-schemas are students’ cognitive generalisations of their selves in learning mathematics (Ng in Educational Psychology, 34(6),...  相似文献   

Kidney function change after transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with diabetes and/or hypertension     

Jiaqi FAN  Changjie YU  Kaida REN  Wanbing LIN  Stella NG  Zexin CHEN  Xinping LIN  Lihan WANG  Qifeng ZHU  Yuxin HE  Jubo JIANG  Xianbao LIU  Jian'an WANG 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2021,22(3):241-247

Aortic stenosis(AS)is a progressive heart valve disease occurring predominantly in older patients.According to a survey in a western country,the prevalence of AS is nearly 6.4%in patients over 75 years old(Carabello and Paulus,2009).Transcatheter aortic valve replacement(TAVR)is an alternative method for AS patients.Previous studies have described how up to 66%of TAVR patients have concomitant baseline kidney dysfunction(Ferro et al.,2015;Gargiulo et al.,2015).The majority of patients can benefit from the TAVR procedure with the recovery of kidney function.  相似文献   

Charge It! Translating Electric Vehicle Research Results to Engage 7th and 8th Grade Girls     

Egbue  Ona  Long  Suzanna  Ng  Ean-Harn 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2015,24(5):663-670

Journal of Science Education and Technology - Despite attempts to generate interest in science and technology careers, US students continue to show reduced interest in science, technology,...  相似文献   

Gender Difference in Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in the Context of Single-Sex Classrooms     

Haroun  Ramzi F.  Ng  Dicky  Abdelfattah  Faisal A.  AlSalouli  Misfer S. 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2015,14(2):383-396

This study examines gender differences of teachers on their mathematical knowledge for teaching in the context of single-sex classrooms in Saudi Arabia. A translated version of the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) instrument (Learning Mathematics for Teaching [LMT], 2008) in Number and Operation Content Knowledge (CK) and Knowledge of Content and Student (KCS) scales were administered to 197 teachers (146 male and 51 female). Two-sample t test and multiple regression were conducted to compare the two groups and test the effect of teacher background variables. Female teachers significantly scored better than their male counterpart. Gender, years of teaching experience, and specialization significantly predicted teachers’ content knowledge, F(3, 187) = 13.180, explaining 41.8 % of the variance. Only gender and specialization significantly predicted teachers’ knowledge of content and student, F(2, 191) = 6.335, explaining 24.9 % of the variance. Further comparing items in the MKT instrument where female teachers outperformed male teachers confirmed that female teachers were better in attending to the content knowledge in the context of student’s learning.

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Instructional leadership practices in Singapore   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Foo Seong David Ng  Thanh Dong Nguyen  Koon Siak Benjamin Wong  Kim Weng William Choy 《School Leadership & Management》2015,35(4):388-407

This paper presents a review of the literature on principal instructional leadership in Singapore. The authors investigated the dimensions of instructional leadership in the practices of Singapore principals and highlighted the strategies these leaders adopt to enact their instructional roles. Singapore principals were found to play an active role in defining the school vision and promoting the school climate. However, in the areas of curriculum implementation and classroom instruction, the middle management team in the school played more active roles as compared to principals. Five broad conclusions were discussed to provide perspectives on instructional leadership practices in Singapore. This paper also highlighted limitations on current instructional leadership research in Singapore and pointed to areas of future research.  相似文献   

How is Buddhism Relevant to Career Counseling in an International High School in Hong Kong? A Counsellor’s Reflection     

Vinci Ng  Mantak Yuen 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》2015,37(3):223-232

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Parental perspectives and challenges in inclusive education in Singapore     

Meng Ee Wong  Kenneth K. Poon  Sarinajit Kaur  Zi Jia Ng 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2015,35(1):85-97

Relatively little work has focused on inclusive education in Singapore. This study examines the experiences and perceptions of parents whose children with disabilities are attending mainstream secondary schools in Singapore. Data was drawn from interviews with 13 parents of children with mild disabilities. Our findings reveal that parental perspective on inclusive education in Singapore is not only about classroom support but also reflects a deeper concern about whether their children with disabilities will emerge from school as contributing individuals in society. While parents strive to effectively include their children with disabilities in mainstream classrooms, there were dichotomies in their (1) understanding of disabilities, (2) expectations of school support, and (3) expectations for their child with disabilities. Given that academic and social prowess is a critical prerequisite to have a shot at entering the meritocratic Singapore society, the tension parents experience is to gauge a reasonable amount of pressure to exert on their children, the school and themselves as they assert their children's educational entitlements within an imperfect but evolving state of inclusion.  相似文献   

Sensitivity of School-Performance Ratings to Scaling Decisions     

Hui Leng Ng  Daniel Koretz 《教育实用测度》2015,28(4):330-349

Policymakers usually leave decisions about scaling the scores used for accountability to their appointed technical advisory committees and the testing contractors. However, scaling decisions can have an appreciable impact on school ratings. Using middle-school data from New York State, we examined the consistency of school ratings based on two scaling approaches that differed in scaling decisions that are important in high-stakes testing contexts. We found that, depending on subject, grade, and year, a switch in scaling approach led to (1) average absolute shifts in ranks of between 50 and 132 positions (median = 69), which are appreciable shifts for a listing of 1,243 schools; and (2) between 7% and 45% (average = 20%) of schools experiencing shifts in assigned performance bands, depending on the classification scheme. Further, the effect of scaling approach was larger when the raw-score distribution has more severe ceiling effect, and in these cases, it was driven primarily by the difference in the location of the highest obtainable scale score from the two scaling approaches.  相似文献   

Pride versus prudence: the precarious queer politics of Pink Dot     

Ng Yi-Sheng 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2017,18(2):238-250

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