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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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Prangsma, Maaike E.; Van Boxtel, Carla A. M.; Kanselaar, Gellof – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
Many pupils have difficulties with the abstract verbal information in history lessons. In this study we assessed the value of active construction of multimodal representations of historical phenomena. In an experimental study we compared the learning outcomes of pupils who co-constructed textual representations, visual-textual representations, or…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Students, History Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Villar, Luis M.; Alegre, Olga M. – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2007
This article evaluates the role of the Online Faculty Development and Assessment System (OFDAS), created at universities in the Canary Islands, Spain, in staff development. The evaluation indicates that the system helped staff in learning to teach curriculum and teaching capacities. The tasks, online resources and opportunities for discussions…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Program Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes