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Download full textAhn, June; Beck, Austin; Rice, John; Foster, Michelle – AERA Open, 2016
In this article, we present analyses from a researcher-practitioner partnership in the District of Columbia Public Schools, where we are exploring the impact of educational software on students' academic achievement. We analyze a unique data set that combines student-level information from the district with data of student usage of a mathematics…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Direct linkHabgood, M. P. Jacob; Ainsworth, Shaaron E. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
The concept of "intrinsic motivation" lies at the heart of the user engagement created by digital games. Yet despite this, educational software has traditionally attempted to harness games as extrinsic motivation by using them as a sugar coating for learning content. This article tests the concept of "intrinsic integration" as…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Incentives, Student Motivation, Time on Task
Blood, Erika; Johnson, Jesse W.; Ridenour, Lindsey; Simmons, Karen; Crouch, Starline – Education and Treatment of Children, 2011
A ten year-old boy exhibiting frequent off-task and disruptive behavior during small group math instruction was taught to use an iPod Touch for video modeling and self-monitoring purposes. A single-subject changing conditions (A-B-BC) design was used to investigate the differential effects of video modeling versus a combination of video modeling…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Intervention, Intervals, Modeling (Psychology)
Mifsud, L.; Morch, A. I. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
Mobile technology is ubiquitous and diverse and permeates many aspects of daily life at home, during leisure activities, and in public spaces. The study presented here is of two sixth grade classes in Michigan, USA and two seventh grade classes in Norway. The students and the teachers in these four classrooms were equipped with mobile technologies…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7
Warren, Scott; Dondlinger, Mary Jo; Stein, Richard; Barab, Sasha – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2009
This article examines the qualitative findings from a mixed-methods comparison study of the use of an online multi-user virtual environment called Anytown which supplemented face-to-face writing instruction in a fourth grade classroom to determine implications for the design of such environments and the reported impact of this design on students…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Descriptive Writing, Educational Games, Virtual Classrooms
Herold, Marina; Alant, Erna; Bornman, Juan – South African Journal of Education, 2008
Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. We aimed to investigate the influence of word-prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. To this end, we selected 80 Grade 4-6 children with spelling difficulties in a school for special needs to participate in a research…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Spelling, Accuracy, Special Needs Students
