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O'Hara, Michael E. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
Although the concept of the sampling distribution is at the core of much of what we do in econometrics, it is a concept that is often difficult for students to grasp. The thought process behind bootstrapping provides a way for students to conceptualize the sampling distribution in a way that is intuitive and visual. However, teaching students to…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Economics, Sampling, Statistical Inference
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Lafuente, Marc; Remesal, Ana; Álvarez Valdivia, Ibis M. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
This study analyses the educational support offered through information and communication technology during formative assessment in two different cases in higher education. We analysed one blended and one virtual case from two different universities. The study aimed at identifying specific patterns of educational support intended to foster two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education
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Fiedler, Sebastian H.D. – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2014
This article offers a critical reflection on the contemporary Open Educational Resource (OER) movement, its unquestioned investment in a collective "content fetish" and an educational "problem description" that focuses on issues of scarcity, access, and availability of quality materials. It also argues that OER proponents fail…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
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Ishiyama, John; Watson, Wendy L. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2014
It is generally accepted in the literature that writing assignments, even short ones, increase both student writing ability and comprehension of the material covered in the assignments. As class enrollments increase, particularly at the introductory level, however, instructors often sacrifice writing assignments because of the difficulty in…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Writing Assignments, Content Area Writing, Political Science
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Auttawutikul, Siwanit; Wiwitkunkasem, Kasemrut; Smith, Duncan R. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
This study reports on the introduction of weblogs as a part of the teaching environment for Thai students to facilitate group learning and enhance creativity. Assessment of progress was through formal creative thought testing, as well as a questionnaire with both structured and open questions. Results showed a significant improvement in assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Computer Uses in Education
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Scheid, Manfred – Education Inquiry, 2014
This article is about the way in which and to what extent digital media and tools are used in the teaching of music in Sweden. Through interviews and observations, teachers' and pupils' experiences and expectations of digital media and tools are presented. The investigation considers eight municipal schools with pupils in the ninth form. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Foreign Countries, Music Teachers
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos; Polemitou, Eirini; Fraggoulidou, Elena – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The study examined the interaction between field dependence-independence (FD/I) and learning with modeling software and simulations, and their effect on children's performance. Participants were randomly assigned into two groups. Group A first learned with a modeling tool and then with simulations. Group B learned first with simulations and then…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Simulation, Models, Computer Uses in Education
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Salle, Alexander – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This exemplary case study describes the learning process of two sixth-graders that learn from an animated worked-out example and an accompanying self-explanation prompt in the domain of fractions. It is based on a corresponding field study. The analysis focuses on the interaction with the computer, the communication between the students, the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Animation, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes
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Koç, Yasemin; Yildiz, Emre; Çaliklar, Seyma; Simsek, Ümit – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Jigsaw II technique, reading-writing-presentation method, and computer animation on students' academic achievements, epistemological beliefs, attitudes towards science lesson, and the retention of knowledge in the "Light" unit covered in the 7th grade. The sample of the study consists…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Animation, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Mathiowetz, Virgil; Yu, Chih-Huang; Quake-Rapp, Cindee – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
This study was designed to assess the grades, self-perceived learning, and satisfaction between occupational therapy students who used a gross anatomy laboratory versus online anatomy software (AnatomyTV) as tools to learn anatomy at a large public university and a satellite campus in the mid-western United States. The goal was to determine if…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Comparative Analysis, Allied Health Occupations Education, Occupational Therapy
Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Fulgham, Susan M. – Educational Technology, 2016
Sigmund Tobias came to the United States in 1948, after his family had fled to China from the Holocaust in Europe. His Memoir ("Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai") describes that part of his life. He settled in New York, where he completed his B.A. and M.S. in School Psychology from the City College of New York, and a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Interviews, Leaders, Computer Games
Luo, Wei; Pelletier, Jon; Duffin, Kirk; Ormand, Carol; Hung, Wei-chen; Shernoff, David J.; Zhai, Xiaoming; Iverson, Ellen; Whalley, Kyle; Gallaher, Courtney; Furness, Walter – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2016
The long geological time needed for landform development and evolution poses a challenge for understanding and appreciating the processes involved. The Web-based Interactive Landform Simulation Model--Grand Canyon (WILSIM-GC, http://serc.carleton.edu/landform/) is an educational tool designed to help students better understand such processes,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education, Comparative Analysis
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Eslami, Zohreh R.; Kung, Wan-Tsai – Language Learning Journal, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the occurrence of incidental focus-on-form and its effect on subsequent second language (L2) production of learners of different dyads in an online task-based language learning context. The participants included Taiwanese learners of English as a foreign language at different proficiency levels, and native…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Native Speakers
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Blau, Ina; Peled, Yehuda; Nusan, Anat – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
One-to-one (1X1) laptop initiatives become prevalent in schools aiming to enhance active learning and assist students in developing twenty-first-century skills. This paper reports a qualitative investigation of all 7th graders and their 15 teachers in a junior high-school in Northern Israel gradually implementing 1X1 model. The research was…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Qualitative Research, Access to Computers
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Brown, Timothy T. – Journal of Management Education, 2016
In this issue, Cavanaugh, Giapponi, and Golden (2016) have discussed the new prominent role of digital devices in the lives of students; the possible impact of these widely-used technologies on developing, learning minds; and the relevance of new cognitive neuroscience research and technologies for better understanding the potential effects of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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