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Zhihui Zhang; Xiaomeng Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Blended learning combines online and traditional classroom instruction, aiming to optimize educational outcomes. Despite its potential, student engagement with online components remains a significant challenge. Gamification has emerged as a popular solution to bolster engagement, though its effectiveness is contested, with research yielding mixed…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Blended Learning, Learning Motivation, Language Proficiency
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Clay Gransden; Matthew Hindmarsh; Ngoc Chi Lê; Thi-Huyen Nguyen – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: There is an increase globally of students using technology to support their learning. The purpose of this paper is to outline the technical aspects of adaptive learning and contribute to the development of pedagogy that incorporates this method in teaching and learning. Design/methodology/approach: This is a technical review article that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Asynchronous Communication
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Mizumoto, Atsushi; Sasao, Yosuke; Webb, Stuart A. – Language Testing, 2019
The knowledge about affix plays a vital role in the development of word knowledge and vocabulary acquisition. A test for diagnostic information on the level of affix knowledge would be useful in order to inform the test users of what learners have gained or lacked in this integral component of vocabulary knowledge. This paper reports the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, College Students, English (Second Language)
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McGinnis, J. Randy – Theory Into Practice, 2013
A fundamental social justice issue worldwide is how to meet the needs of all learners, especially those with special needs who historically have faced discrimination, exclusion, and oppression due to special needs (physical, cognitive, or behavioral dimensions). This article focuses on the key questions that researchers interested in improving…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Social Justice, Disabilities, Equal Education
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Edwards, Oliver W.; Rottman, Amy – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2011
To evaluate the implications of deliberate practice when teaching test administration skills, novice, but trained, graduate student examiners administered intelligence tests to a convenience sample of volunteer school-age examinees assigned to a first test session. A second, different convenience sample of volunteer school-age examinees were…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intelligence, Adaptive Testing, Intelligence Tests
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Shih, Shu-Chuan; Kuo, Bor-Chen; Liu, Yu-Lung – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
The purposes of this study are to develop and evaluate the instructional model and learning system which integrate ubiquitous learning, computerized adaptive diagnostic testing system and campus math path learning. The researcher first creates a ubiquitous learning environment which is called "adaptive U-learning math path system". This…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Adaptive Testing, Foreign Countries, Diagnostic Tests
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Molina, Maria Teresa Lopez-Mezquita – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
Lexical competence is considered to be an essential step in the development and consolidation of a student's linguistic ability, and thus the reliable assessment of such competence turns out to be a fundamental aspect in this process. The design and construction of vocabulary tests has become an area of special interest, as it may provide teachers…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
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Doherty, R. William; Hilberg, R. Soleste – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors reported findings from 3 studies examining the efficacy of Five Standards pedagogy in raising student achievement. Studies 1 and 2 were randomized designs; Study 3 was a quasi-experimental design. Samples included 53 teachers and 622 predominantly low-income Latino students in Grades 1-4. Studies assessed model fidelity with the…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Adaptive Testing, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Tseng, Shian-Shyong; Sue, Pei-Chi; Su, Jun-Ming; Weng, Jui-Feng; Tsai, Wen-Nung – Computers & Education, 2007
In recent years, e-learning system has become more and more popular and many adaptive learning environments have been proposed to offer learners customized courses in accordance with their aptitudes and learning results. For achieving the adaptive learning, a predefined concept map of a course is often used to provide adaptive learning guidance…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Educational Technology, Virtual Classrooms, Junior High Schools