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Dmytro Babik; Edward Gehringer; Jennifer Kidd; Kristine Sunday; David Tinapple; Steven Gilbert – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of innovation in software tools that encapsulate and expand the capabilities of the widely used student peer assessment. While the affordances and pedagogical impacts of traditional in-person, "paper-and-pencil" peer assessment have been studied extensively and are relatively well…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Computer Software, Internet, Electronic Learning
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Michael Pin-Chuan Lin; Daniel H. Chang; Philip H. Winne – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
A chatbot is artificial intelligence software that converses with a user in natural language. It can be instrumental in mitigating teaching workloads by coaching or answering student inquiries. To understand student-chatbot interactions, this study is engineered to optimize student learning experience and instructional design. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Man Machine Systems, Computer Mediated Communication
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Zhao, Fangzheng; Mayer, Richard E. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
How does the emotional tone (happy or sad) and gender (male or female) of the instructor's computer-generated voice in a multimedia lesson affect learning processes and outcomes for female learners (Experiment 1) and male learners (Experiment 2)? In two experiments, college students viewed a 2.5 min narrated slideshow on the formation of lightning…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Intonation, Gender Differences
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Jeong, Allan; Lee, Woon Jee – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
This study examined some of the methodological approaches used by students to construct causal maps in order to determine which approaches help students understand the underlying causes and causal mechanisms in a complex system. This study tested the relationship between causal understanding (ratio of root causes correctly/incorrectly identified,…
Descriptors: Discussion, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Science Education
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Hung, Wei-Chen; Smith, Thomas J.; Harris, Marian S.; Lockard, James – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
This study adopted design and development research methodology (Richey & Klein, "Design and development research: Methods, strategies, and issues," 2007) to systematically investigate the process of applying instructional design principles, human-computer interaction, and software engineering to a performance support system (PSS) for behavior…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Research Methodology, Advance Organizers, Teaching Methods
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Pifarre, Manoli; Cobos, Ruth – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
The aim of this study was to examine the development of the metacognitive knowledge of a group of higher education students who participated actively in an experiment based on a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning environment called KnowCat. Eighteen university students participated in a 12-month learning project during which the KnowCat…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Educational Environment, College Students, Cooperative Learning
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Zhang, Jianwei; Scardamalia, Marlene; Lamon, Mary; Messina, Richard; Reeve, Richard – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2007
This study examines four months of online discourse of 22 Grade 4 students engaged in efforts to advance their understanding of optics. Their work is part of a school-wide knowledge building initiative, the essence of which is giving students collective responsibility for idea improvement. This goal is supported by software--Knowledge…
Descriptors: Optics, Grade 4, Internet, Computer Software