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Assessment in the Zone of Proximal Development: Simulator-Based Competence Tests and the Dynamic Evaluation of Knowledge-in-Action
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Sellberg, Charlott; Lundin, Mona; Säljö, Roger – Classroom Discourse, 2022
The background of this article is an interest in analysing how assessment of professional skills is conducted in higher education contexts, drawing on video data from a course on maritime navigation. The empirical study focuses on a) how students working in a bridge simulator are able to display their knowledge about how to calculate the relation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Video Technology, Marine Education, Navigation
The Use of Social Semiotic Multimodality and Joint Action Theory to Describe Teaching Practices: Two Cases Studies with Experienced Teachers
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Moro, Luciana; Mortimer, Eduardo F.; Tiberghien, Andrée – Classroom Discourse, 2020
The aim of this study is to better understand how teachers use various embodied semiotic modes -- speech, gestures, gaze, and proxemics -- when they present scientific content to the entire class. To analyse the multimodal practices of these teachers, we integrated the social semiotic theory of multimodality and the joint action theory in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Nonverbal Communication