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Conard-Salvo, Tammy; Spartz, John M. – Writing Center Journal, 2012
This is a story of a failed study. In 2007, the authors set out to demonstrate that Kurzweil 3000, an adaptive text-to-speech software program, would help any student revise with its read-aloud function and numerous writing tools. During the course of the study, the authors confronted their misconceptions about students' technology use and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, Laboratories
Cain, William Dennis – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine how prevalent classroom cheating and plagiarizing has become and to inform educators on how to reduce these practices. Student cheating and plagiarism will be examined and analyzed to determine how severe the problem is, as well as finding potential reasons, methods, and solutions to the unethical practice.…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, College Students, Student Attitudes, Cheating
Kelley, Todd; Brenner, Daniel C.; Pieper, Jon T. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2010
A comparative study was conducted to compare two approaches to engineering design curriculum between different schools (inter-school) and between two curricular approaches, "Project Lead the Way" (PLTW) and "Engineering Projects in Community Service" (EPIC High) (inter-curricular). The researchers collected curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Protocol Analysis, Surveys, Engineering
Jones, Barbara – 1991
A survey instrument was designed and administered to obtain a broad base of information concerning the presence of computers and computer literacy classes in public libraries in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota. The results indicate that 50.8% of the 100 libraries that responded to the survey (80.6% of the original random sample) have public…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software Selection, Financial Support, Library Research