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Hanbing Xue; Weishan Liu – SAGE Open, 2025
The application of natural language processing (NLP) technology in the field of education has attracted considerable attention. This study takes 716 articles from the Web of Science database from 1998 to 2023 as its research sample. Using bibliometrics as the theoretical foundation, and employing methods such as literature review and knowledge…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Trends
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Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Eunsoo Cho; Samantha Bourgeois; Ellie Friedman – Reading Teacher, 2024
The purpose of this article was to offer guidance to educators in evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and most effective uses of commercial reading assessment suites. We provide three resources to help educators who are responsible for making instructional decisions in reading using formal screening, benchmark, interim, and progress-monitoring…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Decision Making, Reading Achievement, Evaluation Methods
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Gobel, Peter; Kano, Makimi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Simultaneous in-class presentations are well suited to the use of peer evaluation, which also promotes greater involvement of the student audience. The problem for the teacher is how to manage peer evaluation and make it a useful part of the curriculum. PeerEval is a mobile application that allows students to anonymously evaluate presentations in…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Chen, Teresa; Hsu, Hui-Mei; Stamm, Sheila Wright; Yeh, Ronnie – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify salient features for a critical thinking app and create an instrument to facilitate the app evaluation and selection process. Two questions guided the study: (1) What distinguishes critical thinking instructional apps from others? and (2) What design principles are essential to develop a critical thinking…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Critical Thinking
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Mitten, Carolyn; Jacobbe, Tim; Jacobbe, Elizabeth – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2017
Formative assessment is so important to inform teachers' planning. A discussion of the benefits of using technology to facilitate formative assessment explains how four primary school teachers adopted three different apps to make their formative assessment more meaningful and useful.
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Planning, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Tyler, Toby – Primary Science, 2017
Numerous professionals have written about the need for investigations at the heart of learning to engage and inspire, and to maximize impact upon learning. This article asks if children can use tablets to record their investigations while they are still "in the thick" of them, and also provide valuable assessment data? "In the thick…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Webb, C. Lorraine, Ed.; Lindner, Amanda L., Ed. – IGI Global, 2022
With the evolving technologies available to educators and the increased importance of including technologies in the classroom, it is critical for instructors to understand how to successfully utilize these emerging technologies within their curriculum. To ensure they are prepared, further study on the best practices and challenges of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Technology Integration, Standards
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Sim, Gavin; Read, Janet C. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Teaching practices within educational institutions have evolved through the increased adoption of technology to deliver the curriculum and the use of computers for assessment purposes. For educational technologists, there is a vast array of commercial computer applications available for the delivery of objective tests, and in some instances,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Heuristics, Usability
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Soto, Melissa; Ambrose, Rebecca – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016
Increased attention to reasoning and justification in mathematics classrooms requires the use of more authentic assessment methods. Particularly important are tools that allow teachers and students opportunities to engage in formative assessment practices such as gathering data, interpreting understanding, and revising thinking or instruction.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Computer Oriented Programs
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Davids, M. Noor – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2017
Situated within the context of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in South Africa, this study introduces the notion of an interactive Teaching Practicum E- Assessment application: e-assessment application for the teaching practicum/Teaching Practice module to replace the current model of assessment. At present students enrolled for an Initial Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Practicums, Evaluation Methods
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Koorsse, Melisa; Olivier, Werner; Greyling, Jean – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2014
Assessment for learning has an important role to play in self-regulated learning but the assessment interface can impact learner motivation and performance. Learners are able to assess their knowledge of learning content and, through repeated assessment and high-quality feedback, close the gap between their current performance and the performance…
Descriptors: Self Management, Student Motivation, Student Centered Learning, Multiple Choice Tests
Westhuizen, Duan vd – Commonwealth of Learning, 2016
This work starts with a brief overview of education in developing countries, to contextualise the use of the guidelines. Although this document is intended to be a practical tool, it is necessary to include some theoretical analysis of the concept of online assessment. This is given in Sections 3 and 4, together with the identification and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Student Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
Bienkowski, Marie; Gerard, Sarah Nixon; Rubin, Shawn; Sanford, Cathy; Borrelli-Murray, Dana; Driscoll, Tom; Arora, Jessie; Hruska, Mike; Beck, Katie; Murray, Thomas; Hoekstra, Jason; Gannes, Stuart; Metz, Edward; Midgley, Steve; Castilla, Stephanie; Tomassini, Jason; Madda, Mary Jo; Chase, Zac; Martin, Erik; Noel, Marcus; Styles, Kathleen – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2015
Opportunities abound for software designers and developers to create impactful tools for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families. This guide for developers, startups, and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Design, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Pareja-Lora, Antonio, Ed.; Calle-Martínez, Cristina, Ed.; Rodríguez-Arancón, Pilar, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, empirical and methodological view over the new scenarios and environments for language teaching and learning recently emerged (e.g. blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, social learning, autonomous learning or lifelong learning), and also over some of the new approaches to language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Telecommunications
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Folkestad, James E.; Banning, James – Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Digital media applications (DMAs) have emerged in abundance over the last ten years. Enabled by exponential growth in computing power and inexpensive data storage, these applications are easy to use and inexpensive (often free) to own. DMAs not only allow users to produce digital content efficiently they allow users to exploit the connective power…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Internet, Affordances
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