Ivica Pesovski

Brainster Next College

The statement that frequent testing improves student performance makes perfect logical sense. Although there is much available research proving this statement, the majority of educational programmes are built to evaluate students based on their performance on semestral exams. Reasons for this are most probably of a purely logistical nature. Educati...

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of the available literature on explainable recommendation systems in education and their reproducibility, particularly when recommendations are integrated as part of learning management systems. The first part of the paper's methodology employs an NLP-powered toolkit that automates a large...

Online learning was the solution that saved the educational system from collapsing after the pandemic outburst. Students and teachers at all levels of education were pushed to switch from face-to-face to remote learning and teaching. This paper analyzes the effects that learning management systems have on students’ engagement and achievement during...

This study aims to evaluate the effect frequent testing has on students following computer programming courses in an online environment. The experiment consisted of 26 students divided into two groups: 12 students who took tests after each lesson during the module introducing them to computer programming and 14 students who only took the final exam...

One of the greatest challenges our country faces in the field of education is the incompatibility of what is offered by formal education and the needs and requirements of the labor market as well as the new types of professions that are not covered by formal education. This has been confirmed by research conducted in 2019 by Mojsoska-Blazevski [1]...

The Flynn effect is a well-studied phenomenon that has been reported by researchers in numerous developed countries throughout the world. This phenomenon means that the scores people get on cognitive IQ tests are rising by approximately 3 points every decade. Many researchers have documented this spanning several decades since it was first defined...

The digital transformation is impacting every aspect of our everyday life. The recent social-distancing and isolation measures accelerated the migration of many very traditional processes to online operation. Different vendors develop their own applications for diverse purposes, which expose end-users to significant security risks. Source code prot...

Following the Covid pandemic, significant disruption occurred in every aspect of the daily lives of people across the globe. Education was not an exception – the whole educational process for people around the world had to stop and freeze for a while, so that migration from the offline, class-based and face-to-face education to a completely online,...