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Direct linkIsaac Wiafe; Akon Obu Ekpezu; Gifty Oforiwaa Gyamera; Fiifi Baffoe Payin Winful; Elikem Doe Atsakpo; Charles Nutropkor; Stephen Gulliver – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the use of technology in education through platforms such as YouTube and immersive technologies (e.g., virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)). Despite their potential to improve equity, access, engagement, and cognitive achievement, studies comparing their impacts on learning outcomes are scarce. This…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
Elford, Daniel; Lancaster, Simon J.; Jones, Garth A. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Augmented reality (AR) has the capacity to afford a virtual experience that obviates the reliance on using two-dimensional representations of 3D molecules for teaching stereochemistry to undergraduate students. Using a combination of quantitative instruments and qualitative surveys/interviews, this study explored the relationships between…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Science Instruction, Chemistry
Virtual Reality Simulation: Effects on Academic Performance within Two Domains of Writing in Science
Lamb, Richard L.; Etopio, Elisabeth; Hand, Brian; Yoon, Sae Yeol – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role textbooks can play on writing complexity and lexical density as a proxy for critical thinking and ultimately learning, in relation to argumentative and summative writing when integrated with a virtual reality experience. In this study, differences in writing complexity and lexical density…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Instructional Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Technical Writing
Download full textWitherspoon, Margaret; Sykes, Gary; Bell, Courtney – Educational Testing Service, 2016
This paper provides a description and rationale for a performance assessment of a teaching practice--leading a classroom discussion (LCD)--included in the ETS® National Observational Teaching Examination (NOTE) assessment series. In this assessment, candidates interact with a small class of virtual students represented by avatars in a…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
Qi, Yi; Sykes, Gary – Educational Testing Service, 2016
This report describes and provides research and scholarly support for a core practice of teaching--eliciting student thinking (EST)--that is the target for a performance assessment contributing one component of the "ETS"® National Observational Teaching Examination (NOTE) assessment series. The purpose of this report is to review the…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
Stickler, Leslie; Sykes, Gary – Educational Testing Service, 2016
This report reviews the scholarly and research evidence supporting the construct labeled modeling and explaining content (MEC), which is measured via a performance assessment in the "ETS"® National Observational Teaching Examination (NOTE) assessment series. This construct involves practices at the heart of teaching that deal with how…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
