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Tate, Tamara P.; Warschauer, Mark; Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Writing is critical for college and career readiness, yet secondary students in America are not good writers (National Center for Education Statistics, 2012). Unfortunately, researchers know relatively little about secondary students' writing skills, and even less about their digital writing. In this study, we explored prior computer use, keyboard…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Computer Use, Writing Skills
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KewalRamani, Angelina; Zhang, Jijun; Wang, Xiaolei; Rathbun, Amy; Corcoran, Lisa; Diliberti, Melissa; Zhang, Jizhi – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
Educators, policymakers, and parents alike are focused on ensuring the academic success of the nation's students. These efforts interact with the expanding use of technology, which affects the lives of students both inside and outside of the classroom. Thus, the role that technology plays in education is an evolving area of research that continues…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Computers, Internet, Computer Use
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Araujo, Juan J., Ed.; Babino, Alexandra, Ed.; Dixon, Kathryn, Ed.; Cossa, Nedra, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2022
The theme of this year was educate to liberate. A reminder to the literacy community that education, and literacy extend beyond the content and courses we teach. As Freire puts it, "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Learner Engagement, Empathy, Reading Aloud to Others
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Mo, Ya; Troia, Gary A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study examines the relationship between students' demographic background and their experiences with writing at school, the alignment between state and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) direct writing assessments, and students' NAEP writing performance. The study utilizes primary data collection via content analysis of writing…
Descriptors: Prediction, National Competency Tests, Gender Differences, Ethnicity
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2018
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what the nation's students know and can do in various subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing, as well as civics, geography, U.S. history, and technology and engineering literacy. The results of NAEP are…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Grade 4, Grade 8
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2017
The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what the nation's students know and can do in subjects such as civics, geography, mathematics, reading, U.S. history, and writing. The results of NAEP are released as The Nation's Report Card. NAEP is a congressionally…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Grade 4, Grade 8
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Hardesty, Jacob; McWilliams, Jenna; Plucker, Jonathan A. – High Ability Studies, 2014
Every country--and even every community--has populations of students who severely underperform relative to other groups and to their own potential. These performance differences are generally called achievement gaps, and they tend to focus on gaps at basic levels of academic proficiency. But such gaps also exist among the highest levels of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, High Achievement, Context Effect, Access to Computers
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Sadler, Troy D.; Romine, William L.; Stuart, Parker E.; Merle-Johnson, Dominike – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Video games have become a popular medium in our society, and recent scholarship suggests that games can support substantial learning. This study stems from a project in which we created a video game enabling students to use biotechnology to solve a societal problem. As students engaged in the game, they necessarily interacted with the underlying…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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Valdiz, Alfred; Trujillo, Karen; Wiburg, Karin – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2013
Math Snacks animations and support materials were developed for use on the web and mobile technologies to teach ratio, proportion, scale factor, and number line concepts using a multi-modal approach. Included in Math Snacks are: Animations which promote the visualization of a concept image; written lessons which provide cognitive complexity for…
Descriptors: Animation, Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Pretests Posttests
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2010
In today's society, writing with paper and pencil has largely been replaced by writing using a computer. Students are expected to compose on a computer as they move through school and into the workforce. Reflecting the changes in technology, eighth- and twelfth-grade students taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, National Competency Tests
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Kim, Sunha; Chang, Mido – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Although computer games as a way to improve students' learning have received attention by many educational researchers, no consensus has been reached on the effects of computer games on student achievement. Moreover, there is lack of empirical research on differential effects of computer games on diverse learners. In response, this study…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Elementary School Students, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 4
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McFarland, Joel; Hussar, Bill; Zhang, Jijun; Wang, Xiaolei; Wang, Ke; Hein, Sarah; Diliberti, Melissa; Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Mann, Farrah Bullock; Barmer, Amy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The Condition of Education is a congressionally mandated annual report summarizing important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The 2019 Condition of Education report presents 48 indicators on topics ranging from prekindergarten through postsecondary education, as well as labor force outcomes and international…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics
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Kozma, Robert B. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
In support of the conclusions and recommendations in the National Education Technology Plan (NETP), this article makes explicit the connections between the economic rationale used in the plan and the educational transformations it recommends. The article reviews macroeconomic research, microeconomic research, labor market and workforce studies,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Technology Planning, Labor Market, Information Technology
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Spires, Hiller A.; Wiebe, Eric; Young, Carl A.; Hollebrands, Karen; Lee, John K. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2012
As the nation's economy continues its irrevocable shift from manufacturing toward idea-driven, creative industries, our schools--and the teaching and learning enterprise at the heart of our schools--need to undergo a transformation as well. The result of such a transformation needs to be a type of educational experience and expertise that will not…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Internet, Handheld Devices, Web 2.0 Technologies
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
This report presents results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in writing at grades 8 and 12. In this new national writing assessment sample, 24,100 eighth-graders and 28,100 twelfth-graders engaged with writing tasks and composed their responses on computer. The assessment tasks reflected writing situations common to…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Writing Tests, Grade 8, Grade 12
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