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Marginalised Behaviour: Digital Annotations, Spatial Encoding and the Implications for Reading Comprehension
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Johnson, Martin; Nadas, Rita – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Within large scale educational assessment agencies in the UK, there has been a shift towards assessors marking digitally scanned copies rather than the original paper scripts that were traditionally used. This project uses extended essay examination scripts to consider whether the mode in which an essay is read potentially influences the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Educational Assessment, Internet, Essay Tests
Investigating the Gas Laws Without Mercury.
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Mole, Ronald – School Science Review, 1995
Presents experiments that avoid using mercury by using pressure transducers to investigate the gas laws. (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Foreign Countries, Investigations, Laboratory Safety
Data-Logging--A Plug-and-Play Oxygen Probe?
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Warne, Peter – School Science Review, 1997
Presents an experiment on collecting data while measuring the dissolved-oxygen levels in Thames River tap water straight from the water mains and dissolved-oxygen levels in rainwater containing Hornwort water weed over 24 hours. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Computer Interfaces, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
A Direct Reading Thermometer Based on a Silicon Diode.
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Kirkup, L.; Tonthat, C. – Physics Education, 1998
Describes a simple circuit based on an inexpensive quad operational amplifier that permits a direct-reading temperature instrument to be constructed using silicon diodes. Encourages the use of this equipment in introductory thermal experiments. (DDR)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
The IT in Secondary Science Book. A Compendium of Ideas for Using Computers and Teaching Science.
Frost, Roger – 1994
Scientists need to measure and communicate, to handle information, and model ideas. In essence, they need to process information. Young scientists have the same needs. Computers have become a tremendously important addition to the processing of information through database use, graphing and modeling and also in the collection of information…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Foreign Countries
Use of Computer Interfacing in Mechanics.
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Saunders, Bruce J. – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1995
Describes an experiment that uses the Tain Electronics TCS2 interface to investigate the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. Discusses the following topics: assembling the system, forces in the system, software, and data analysis. (JRH)
Descriptors: Acceleration (Physics), Computer Interfaces, Computer Uses in Education, Force
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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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