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Direct linkGuo, Xin; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, Anne – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
This study investigated the effectiveness of ABRACADABRA (ABRA), a web-based literacy program, developed by the Center for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, in facilitating the literacy attainment of third-grade primary school students in an area of rural China. Researchers shared the experiences of localizing ABRA to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Rural Schools
Park, SeungWon; Kim, ChanMin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
This article reports on evaluation studies of the Virtual Tutee System (VTS) designed to enhance students' engagement in academic reading. The VTS is a web-based peer-tutoring environment in which students teach a virtual tutee about the content in course readings that students have been assigned to learn. With the VTS, students interact with…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Peer Teaching, Reading Instruction, Formative Evaluation
Cheon, Jongpil; Grant, Michael M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a metaphorical interface on germane cognitive load in Web-based instruction. Based on cognitive load theory, germane cognitive load is a cognitive investment for schema construction and automation. A new instrument developed in a previous study was used to measure students' mental activities…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Cues, Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Sansone, Carol; Fraughton, Tamra; Zachary, Joseph L.; Butner, Jonathan; Heiner, Cecily – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
Successful online students must learn and maintain motivation to learn. The Self-regulation of Motivation (SRM) model (Sansone and Thoman 2005) suggests two kinds of motivation are essential: Goals-defined (i.e., value and expectancy of learning), and experience-defined (i.e., whether interesting). The Regulating Motivation and Performance Online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Motivation, Online Courses, Learning Motivation
Walker, Andrew; Recker, Mimi; Ye, Lei; Robertshaw, M. Brooke; Sellers, Linda; Leary, Heather – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
This article presents a quasi-experimental study comparing the impact of two technology-related teacher professional development (TTPD) designs, aimed at helping junior high school science and mathematics teachers design online activities using the rapidly growing set of online learning resources available on the Internet. The first TTPD design…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Problem Based Learning, Program Effectiveness
