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The Effects Of Using Computer-Assisted Learning To Teach Multiplication, Brian Unruh

Graduate Research Papers

This case study investigated the effects of using computer-assisted learning (CAL) while teaching multiplication facts to 32 third-graders. This quasi-experimental study spanned a six-week period and was analyzed using a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques. Among these qualitative techniques were participant observation and formal and informal interviews. The quantitative component included document analysis of three separate instruments. This study demonstrated a low correlation between the use of CAL and recall skills. However, students felt comfortable and enthusiastic working with the computer. In addition to the excitement, students felt significantly more confident and successful using the computer. There was evidence …

A Comparative Analysis Of Two Course Delivery Models Through The Telequiz Protocol, A Study Of Web-Based Distance Assessment Modalities, Patrick Michael O'Shea

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Studies

Distance education and distance assessment have become the focus of many institutions of higher learning, and there is a need to know how these tools compare with those used in the traditional classroom setting. This study was designed to compare online and traditional students utilizing a mixture of quantitative and qualitative strategies in a quasi experimental model. This research was conducted at Old Dominion University using a sample of online and traditional students enrolled in an Introduction to Education course (ECI 300). Both versions of this course utilize an online quizzing protocol known as Telequiz. Quiz scores, final exam scores …

Environment-Based Education: Policy, Practice, And Place, Eric N. Wickwire

All Master's Theses

The policies of the environment-based education movement are benefiting teachers and students participating in several model programs operating in the United States. Place-centered learning enhances the interdisciplinary practice of Essential Academic Learning Requirements, and actively engages students in local issues. The study of cultural landscapes encourages a sense of place within the Lower Columbia River Gorge, and fosters student connections with the Dalles Mountain Ranch. Policy recommendations are made for environment-based learning in Washington State's public schools. An example place-centered curriculum is outlined for practice at the Dalles Mountain Ranch, and a residential environmental learning center is proposed in the …

The Impact Of The Transition From Analog To Digital Process Display Gauges On Human Error And Safety In The Chemical Industry, Allen J. Thacker

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The use of new technological instruments in the work place has enabled operators to control processes and product development to tolerances that were unachievable in past decades. The chemical industry has exhibited rapid growth in the implementation of control monitoring instruments such as analog and digital display gauges as well as the software applications that provide the flexibility to successfully integrate the technology into the chemical manufacturing processes. This research was designed to examine the effects of the transition from analog displays to digital displays in the chemical industry. The results of the research provide benefits to chemical manufacturers and …

The Use Of Electronic Technologies In The Cedar Rapids Community Schools' Physical Education Programs, Nicholaus J. Daniel

Graduate Research Papers

How often is electronic technology used in physical education programs? How much electronic technology is available to physical education programs? Does electronic technology and physical education go together? When most people think of electronic technology, they do not think about physical education. Most people tend to think that technology is anything related to a desktop or laptop computer, something you sit down at and work on, not something that involves being physical.

From the researcher's experience in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD), there is some pressure for all subject areas to implement and integrate electronic technologies into the …

Removing Dust Bunnies And Expensive Paperweights From The Classroom : Effective Staff Development In Educational Technology, Margaret F. Krzywicki

Graduate Research Papers

With major funding directed toward putting technology in the classroom and training students to be tomorrow's workers, there needs to be an effective technology staff development program in place for the teachers. Developers of staff development programs need to include the learning style of adult learners (andragogy), instead of pedagogy. Successful staff development for the teachers must include innovation, release time, and quality equipment. The learning styles of adult learners should be foremost in the development of courses and workshops. Staff development is more than just the technical side of the technology. It should provide teachers with the tools to …

Technology Staff Development, Paul A. Rabara

Graduate Research Papers

Traditional staff development does not suffice for emerging technologies and evolving pedagogy for teacher use of technology in instruction. Societal changes have produced new needs. Change causes a need to systematically look at progress and the attributes associated with the diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 1995). Roswell (1997) is only one of several schools who have dedicated considerable resources to developing a technology staff development plan with results in higher percentages of teachers using technology in the classroom. Technology staff development should have characteristics in models that coincide with the attributes of diffusion. Technology staff development can bridge the use and …

Linking The Literacy Curriculum With Technology, Scot J. Surprenant

Graduate Research Papers

Evaluating the process and needs of linking literacy and technology in the educational setting. The technology is presented as the driving force of change in the literacy. Teachers, administrators, and parents need to formulate a plan for training sessions along with organizing supportive people around them to integrate technology into the curriculum. They need to design professional development to empower teachers to use technology, in the curriculum. Understanding that students are exposed to multimedia literacy, technology will be a medium to motivate and synthesize learning. Teachers facilitate students to be responsible and empowered learners for their own learning. There is …

Dvd Technology For Educational Purposes, Donald J. Devore

Graduate Research Papers

This review of literature is about the technology of the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD). Provided is a brief overview of information in the area of DVD technology world, the evolution of DVD technology, areas that have enhanced educational advancement, and directions to be explored.

How To Develop And Design A Webquest, Amy Neville

Graduate Research Papers

This review will help to solve the problem of not knowing how to develop and design a WebQuest. A WebQuest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation" (Dodge, 2001, p. 1). They help teach research skills using the Internet. By learning how to write a WebQuest, an educator would be able to integrate one into his/her …

Designing A Web Page To Facilitate Communication, Lori B. Lee

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this action research project was to build a teacher-controlled web page that would facilitate communication between home, community, and school. The web site contained information about administration, athletics (including schedules), honor roll and awards, faculty and staff information, advisor/advisee programs, academic information with assignments, special events, and students of the week.

Twenty-three seventh grade parents volunteered to respond to surveys about their communication with the staff at the Nashua-Plainfield Middle School and the implementation of the middle school web site.

The response by the parents indicated that they liked the monthly news, information on assignments, and athletic …

Factors For Effective Learning Groups In Face-To-Face And Virtual Environments, Charles R. Graham

Faculty Publications

Group work has been a powerful instructional method used in face-to-face learning environments. To date, group work has not reached the same prominence in distance learning environments where there is a strong emphasis on independent or individualistic learning. This may be due in part to the perceived difficulty of engaging students in working together at a distance, as well as a general lack of knowledge about the factors that contribute to effective virtual group work. This paper reviews the literature related to creating effective learning groups in face-to-face and virtual environments. Research from the following four areas was used: cooperative …

Research In Technology Education: Back To The Future, Philip A. Reed

STEMPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Multimedia Tools For The Creation Of Online Learning Materials : A Critique, Victor Augustine Udosen

World Maritime University Dissertations

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The Impact Of Technology On Legal Education, Anna Williams Shavers

Journal of Legal Education

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Sistem Perancangan Akademik (Spa), Maideen Nordiana

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Perancangan Akademik dibangunkan untuk membantu para pelajar dan penasihat akademik dalam mendapatkan maklumat berkaitan kursus-kursus pengajian, keputusan peperiksaan dan analisis perancangan akademik pelajar secara atas talian. Sistem ini juga membantu pentadbir dalam menyimpan dan menyebarkan maklumat dengan menggunakan teknologi Web sepenuhnya. Sistem ini membenarkan pencapaian maklumat menerusi Internet dengan menggunakan komputer peribadi. Disamping itu, sistem dilengkapi dengan kebolehan untuk memberi cadangan senarai kursus pendaftaran oleh seseorang pelajar berdasarkan Pungutan Nilai Kumulatif Keseluruhan (PNGK) terbaru mereka, prasyarat-prasyarat kursus dan senarai kursus yang ditawarkan pada semester tersebut. Laporan ini dimulakan dengan bahagian pengenalan di Bab 1. Bab I menerangkan definisi dan …

Attitudes And Beliefs Of Faculties And Administrators In The Ivy Tech State College System On The Deployment Of Technology-Mediated, Interactive Distance Education, Mark A. Keen

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to (a) examine Ivy Tech State College (ITSC) faculty members' and administrators' attitudes and beliefs about technology-mediated, interactive distance education (TIDE) and their. experiences and willingness to deploy it; (b) investigate how those experiences, and attitudes and beliefs affect faculties' perceived willingness to be involved in the deployment of TIDE; and (c) discover differences between the two groups in attitudes and beliefs, experience, and willingness to deploy TIDE. The results of the six research questions in this study support the conclusion that distance education is, and will continue to be, an increasing important aspect …

A Study To Determine The Teacher Education Students Five Year Performances On Praxis Ii Assessment At Morehead State University, Yuliana Susanto

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Science and Technology at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Vocational Education/Technology by Yuliana Susanto on April 30, 2001.

Electronic Testing System (Ets), Noor Ahmed Bashir Shamsul Anwar

Student Works (2000-2009)

The final year project is the qualification, which is required to complete the bachelor degree for all final year students of faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya. The purpose of this final year project is to expose students to the real working life of environment as well as getting experience in the real world project management. In this modern age of Information Technology, people are experiencing with the letter "E" which stands for Electronic. Such as, E-mail, E-commerce, E-government as well as E-test. The E-test stands for Electronic Testing, is a computer system, that can be applied …

Improving Parent-School Communication Through The Development Of A Sky Country School Web Page, Kathleen Mary Clark

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to improve the communication between parents and the faculty and staff at Sky Country Elementary School through the development of an interactive school web page. In particular, keeping parents aware of school activities and achievements that their children are involved in. The project was developed based on the needs of the parents, teachers and staff at Sky Country Elementary School. The research looks at how schools are currently communicating with parents and how better home/school communication increases parent involvement which leads to higher student achievement. The last element of research looks at how to …

An Instructional Handbook For Creating A Fourth Grade Classroom Home Page, John R. Getzinger

All Graduate Projects

When technology is used in the classroom, students are prepared for the future, the individual needs of students can be met, students are provided with interactive learning and the value of computers are demonstrated to students and faculty. The purpose of this project was to develop a handbook for teachers of fourth grade students at Church Creek Elementary in the Stanwood - Camano School District that would assist in creating a classroom web page. The web page would allow parents and other interested parties to see what was taking place in the classroom. In order to create the handbook, the …

Sistem Operasi Matriks, Mat Shaleh Muhammad Nazmi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkembangan teknologi serta pakej pembelajaran menggunakan komputer telah menyaksikan pembangunan teknologi komputer yang lebih drastik dan kompetetif. Projek ini dihasilkan akibat daripada peralihan kebanyakan sistem manual kepada secara berkomputer yang menyumbangkan lebih banyak kebaikan dan kemudahan kepada orang ramai. Projek ini merupakan suatu pakej pembelajaran yang berteraskan grafik dan juga beberapa ciri multimedia. Ia adalah khusus untuk pelajar-pelajar dan juga pengajarpengajar di peringkat sekolah menengah tinggi sehingga ke peringkat institut pengajian tinggi. Sistem ini adalah ramah pengguna dan mudah digunakan. Kajian ke atas sistem yang sedia ada amat penting dalam pengumpulan data bagi projek ini. Sistem ini akan dibangunkan dengan …

Computer Aided Learning Chinese Iiioms ( Calci), Chai Yam Yee

Student Works (2000-2009)

Computer aided learning have been implemented by lots of institutions and universities nowadays, due to the fast growing of information technology and the trend of moving towards paperless environment. Computer aided learning of Chinese idioms, is a package developed to assist students in the Chinese idioms study. This package is limited to Chinese idioms in 4 characters only. The package will provides the entire syllabus of Chinese idioms learned at primary and secondary school. It also contains idioms story, exercises and quizzes. The development of this package is assisted by multimedia tool to make it a more attractive, efficient and …

Intelligent Tutoring System Web Package, Prakasam Rakesh Jaya

Student Works (2000-2009)

Education learning package has been in the market and in the web for a long time. Most of the web pages however are specific for primary school student children and kids and for other computer learning. For the example, "Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah" (UPSR) for Bahasa Melayu subject is one of the learning web pages for the primary school student. None of the learning package or web page available in the software market is developed for the Physics subject in the SPM examination. Furthermore, most of the learning web page do not have an attractive user interface and do not …

Pakej Pembelajaran Matematik Upsr (M3upsr), Ab. Hamid Radziah

Student Works (2000-2009)

M3UPSR merupakan satu pakej pembelajaran multimedia matematik yang dibangunkan khusus untuk pelajar-pelajar tahun 4, 5 dan 6 kurikulum bersepadu sekolah rendah (KBSR) yang bakal menduduki ujian penilaian sekolah rendah (UPSR). Pakej ini memfokus kepada latihan-latihan berasaskan kepada tajuk-tajuk yang terkandung di dalam silibus matematik UPSR. Setiap jenis latihan di dalam pakej ini dibahagikan kepada beberapa unit set latihan. Soalan-soalan latihan yang berbentuk aneka pilihan dan 'isikan tempat kosong' diberikan untuk menilai pemahaman pelajar terhadap matapelajaran matematik. Gabungan beberapa elemen multimedia juga akan menghasilkan antaramuka yang menarik disamping penggunaannya yang berbentuk mesra-pengguna (user-friendly). M3UPSR ini dibangunkan dengan menggunakan bahasa pengarangan Macromedia …

Siri Ibadah Puasa Elektronik (Sipe), Mohamed Yunus Mursyidah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Siri lbadah Puasa Elektronik (SIPE) merupakan sebuah sistem pembelajaran bermultimedia mengenai ibadah puasa yang diamalkan oleh umat Islam mengikut mazhab Shafie. SIPE merupakan sebuah pakej yang menampilkan bentuk pembelajaran yang menarik dan interaktif. SIPE sesuai digunakan bagi pelajar berusia 13 tahun sehingga 17 tahun dan juga boleh digunakan oleh orang dewasa yang berminat untuk mempelajari tentang ibadah puasa. SIPE merangkumi topik-topik mengenai definisi, jenis, hukum dan adab dalam puasa. SIPE juga menyediakan latihan kepada pengguna. Sistem ini dibangunkan selama dua semester iaitu bermula dari bulan Mac sehingga bulan September. Metodologi yang akan digunakan semasa pembangunan sistem ini adalah gabungan metodologi …

Nombor & Objek Pintar, Mazlan Ilya Jehan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pakej Nombor & Objek Pintar yang akan dibangunkan ini adalah satu pakej pembelajaran bermultimedia yang berasaskan web di mana ia direka khususnya untuk kegunaan pelajar prasekolah atau tadika. Fokus utama pakej Nombor & Objek Pintar adalah untuk membantu kanak-kanak mengenal dan mempelajari nombor-nombor dengan menggunakan bantuan gambarajah objek-objek yang biasa dilihat melalui kemudahan laman web. Pemilihan multimedia sebagai tapak dalam penciptaan Nombor & Objek Pintar adalah amat bersesuaian. Sistem multimedia ini menggunakan kombinasi grafik, teks, audio, animasi dan video dalam memberi maklumat persekitaran. Gabungan ini dapat memberi kesan yang mendalam untuk kanak-kanak serta dapat menarik minat mereka. Secara tidak langsung, …

Accounting Learning Package, Ai Yieng Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The most important concern confounding the education in the world today is the development of computer-assisted teaching materials, especially interactive multimedia programs that run on personal computers. The first signs of computer-delivered electronic system allowed the user to control, combine and manipulate many different types of media, such as text, sound, video, computer graphics and animation. This project is concerned with the development of an interactive multimedia educational package based on the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) Accounting. This project is implemented as a courseware with the CD-ROM as the storage medium. Besides course materials, this educational package also includes accounting …

Design And Evaluation Of A Web-Based Constructivist Learning Environment For Primary School Students, Abtar Kaur Darshan Singh

Student Works (2000-2009)

The purpose of this study was 10 determine !he effectiveness of a web-based constructivist learning environment (WebClen) on the enhancement of higher order thinking skills and content acquisition of 36 Year 4 high, mixed and low ability students. The study also examined the characteristics of cooperative and collaborative learning processes employed by the three groups of students. Finally, the study investigated the role of the teacher and also student perceptions towards learning in a web-based environment. The study employed a one-group repeated measures design aimed at measuring the effects of web-based learning on thinking skills and acquisition of Geoscience content …

Sistem Maklumat Pertolongan Cemas (Smpc), Baharudin Norafizah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Latihan ilmiah ini merupakan satu krusus yang wajib bagi pelajar tahun akhir bagi memenuhi keperluan penganugerahan ljazah Sarjana Muda Teknologi Maklumat dengan kepujian di Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat di Universiti Malaya. Melalui kursus ini pelajar perlu membuat satu projek dimana pelajar dapat mengaplikasikan apa-apa yang dipelajari selama ini. Dalam laporan latihan ilmiah ini, tumpuan diberikan kepada konsep, teknik dan kaedah analisis yang dibuat untuk menjayakan projek latihan ilmiah yang bertajuk Sistem Maklumat Pertolongan Cemas (SMPC). Laporan latihan ilmiah ini meliputi segala aspek praktis yang wujud dalam pembangunan sistem yang ditunjukkan dalam jadual pembangunan projek pada fasa 1 dan …