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Hopper, Keith B. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that nearly 20 million Americans suffer from asthma, 6.3 million of which are children (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). It is not merely an annoyance disease, as is commonly believed. Asthma kills. It takes more than 5,000 American lives each year (Asthma Statistics in America,…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Diseases
Darabi, Abbas; Nelson, David W. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Thirty six senior students in chemical engineering were randomly assigned to three treatment groups in an experimental study that examined the impact of different instructional strategies for troubleshooting malfunctions in a computer-based simulation of a chemical processing plant. In two groups, different types of worked examples,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Troubleshooting, Teaching Methods, Chemical Engineering
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Simonson, Michael R., Ed.; Jurasek, Karen A., Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1992
The papers in this collection of 71 individual papers and 3 symposiums represent some of the most current thinking in educational communications and technology. For the first time, a selected number of development papers sponsored by the Division for Instructional Development are included. Topics discussed include the effects of various conditions…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction