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Marli Crabtree; Kenneth L. Thompson; Ellen M. Robertson – HAPS Educator, 2024
Research has suggested that changing one's answer on multiple-choice examinations is more likely to lead to positive academic outcomes. This study aimed to further understand the relationship between changing answer selections and item attributes, student performance, and time within a population of 158 first-year medical students enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Tests, Medical Students, Medical Education
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José Gómez-Galán; Eloy López-Meneses; David Cobos-Sanchiz – Discover Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the digitalization of education to be accelerated to continue the teaching-learning processes in confined populations. The irruption of this fact caused the evolution that had previously been occurring in the integration of digital technologies, and in general information and communication technologies (ICT), in…
Descriptors: Internet, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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Afful, Benedict; Akrong, Rexford – Journal of Education for Business, 2020
With the current debate on the effect of WhatsApp on academic performance, there is little rigorous econometric research backing each side of the argument. Applying a seemingly unrelated regression model to a primary data, it was found that the use of WhatsApp has a positive effect on the academic performance of students so long as the dominant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Software, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Daly, Nigel P. – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
The road to second language competence is a long and arduous one, and much of its effort involves learning to recognize and use vocabulary. Fortunately, anytime-anywhere learning with smart phones and smart apps offer a means to lessen the burden and make vocabulary learning more efficient. Accordingly, this study investigated 134 students across…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Tests
Dore, Rebecca A.; Logan, Jessica; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Purtell, Kelly M.; Justice, Laura – Grantee Submission, 2020
Media use could be detrimental to children's language and literacy skills because it may displace other language-enhancing activities like shared reading and caregiver-child interactions. Furthermore, the extent to which children use media with adults (joint media engagement), the extent to which they use interactive media (apps/games), and the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Language Acquisition, Parent Child Relationship, Computer Games
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Lallé, Sébastien; Conati, Cristina; Azevedo, Roger; Mudrick, Nicholas; Taub, Michelle – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between students' learning gains and their compliance with prompts fostering self-regulated learning (SRL) during interaction with MetaTutor, a hypermedia-based intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). When possible, we evaluate compliance from student explicit answers on whether they want to follow the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Psychology), Metacognition, Computer Software, Eye Movements
O'Connell, Richard R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Federal legislation has demanded increased accountability requirements for teacher excellence. Teachers and school leaders in the local schools are impacted tremendously by this decision. The necessity to provide students with high performing teachers is a priority of all stakeholders. The need to comply with federal grant requirements has added…
Descriptors: Models, Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Attitudes, Accountability
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Nyinkeu, Ngatchu Damen; Thaddeus, Kabuin; Henry, Ngatchu – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2016
In an era when its is increasingly encouraged to share source-codes, the training of students, particularly information technology students, faces several challenges in communicating aspects of academic honesty -- precisely authenticity of authorship. The genuineness of this issue has implications primarily in the integral formation of students…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Ethics, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Plagiarism
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Cronan, Timothy Paul; Leger, Pierre-Majorique; Robert, Jacques; Babin, Gilbert; Charland, Patrick – Simulation & Gaming, 2012
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have had a significant impact on business organizations. These large systems offer opportunities for companies regarding the integration and functionality of information technology systems; in effect, companies can realize a competitive advantage that is necessary in today's global companies. However,…
Descriptors: Simulation, Information Technology, Educational Assessment, Management Information Systems
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Al-Furaydi, Ahmed Ajab – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study will determine their readiness level for the e-learning in several aspects such as attitude toward e-learning, and computer literacy also this study attempt to investigate the main the barriers that EFL teachers have to overcome while incorporating e-learning into their teaching. The theory upon which the study was technology acceptance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers