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Sue Creagh; Skye Playsted; Anna Hogan; Tae-Hee Choi; Bob Lingard – TESOL in Context, 2023
Privatisation and commercialisation in education encompass a range of interrelated practices, including the outsourcing of educational services as well as increased reliance on commercially produced resources for the delivery of learning and assessment. An increase in these practices has accompanied the shift from centralised systemic management…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Murchland, Sonya; Kernot, Jocelyn; Parkyn, Helen – Assistive Technology, 2011
This study explored the levels of satisfaction children 8-18 years experienced with assistive technology items used to assist them in their schoolwork. Modified from the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction (QUEST 2.0), the QUEST 2.1: Children's Version was developed to enable scoring by children with or without parent assistance. The QUEST 2.1:…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Luik, Piret – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Most boys and girls interact differently with educational software and have different preferences for the design of educational software. The question is whether the usage of educational software has the same consequences for both genders. This paper investigates the characteristics of drill-and-practice programmes or drills that are efficient for…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Software, Gender Differences, Drills (Practice)
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Zheliazkova, Irina; Kolev, R. – Computers & Education, 2008
This paper presents learners' task results gathered by means of an example task-oriented environment for knowledge testing and processed by EXCEL. The processing is domain- and task-independent and includes automatic calculation of several important task and session's parameters, drawing specific graphics, generating tables, and analyzing the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Courseware, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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Yeh, Kuan-Hue; She, Hsiao-Ching – Computers & Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine the difference in effectiveness between two on-line scientific learning programs--one with an argumentation component and one without an argumentation component--on students' scientific argumentation ability and conceptual change. A quasi-experimental design was used in this study. Two classes of 8th grade…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Persuasive Discourse, Chemistry
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Beal, C. R.; Qu, L.; Lee, H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
The study was conducted to investigate the relation of adolescent students' mathematics motivation and achievement to their appropriate help-seeking and inappropriate guessing behaviour while using instructional software. High school students (n = 90) completed brief assessments of mathematics motivation and then worked with software for geometry…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Student Motivation, Courseware, Mathematics Teachers
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2005
For the twenty-eighth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Word Problems (Mathematics)