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Amy Walker; Kristy Pytash – Voices from the Middle, 2025
Little work has been done to investigate the implementation of innovative technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) and 3D printing, during English language arts instruction in juvenile detention facilities. This study explored how technology integration in restricted spaces can lead students to develop connections and empathy toward others. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, Institutionalized Persons, Computer Simulation
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Howorth, Sarah K.; Rooks-Ellis, Deborah; Flanagan, Sara; Ok, Min Wook – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
Teachers' use of video modeling has been established as an evidence-based practice for teaching students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Augmented reality (AR) applications can be used as tools to provide trigger-based, video-modeled instructional supports to students with ASD. The use of AR in this way may help teachers implement…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Skills, Computer Simulation
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Dooley, Caitlin McMunn; Calandra, Brendan; Harmon, Stephen – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2014
This qualitative case study describes how 18 preservice teachers learned to nurture literary meaning-making via activities based on Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory within a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). Participants re-created and responded to scenes from selected works of children's literature in Second Life as a way to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Reader Response, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment
Witherspoon, 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