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Keyser, Diane – Online Submission, 2010
To design a series of assessments that could be used to compare the learning gains of high school students studying the cardiopulmonary system using traditional methods to those who used a collaborative computer simulation, called "Mr. Vetro". Five teachers and 264 HS biology students participated in the study. The students were in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, Human Body
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Kennedy, Peter; Walstad, William B. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1997
The consequences in terms of misclassifications of students that would occur by replacing the constructed-response portion of the Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in economics with more multiple-choice items were studied. The 1991 AP examinations in micro- and macroeconomics were used. Computer simulation found that a small but statistically…
Descriptors: Classification, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Simulation, Constructed Response