Instructional technology plays a role in supporting access to and meaningful participation in general education curriculum for students with developmental disabilities in inclusive classrooms. In this study, two 18-year-old students with developmental disabilities received technology-supported instruction to assist with learning the content in…

The research on using event logs and item response time to study test-taking processes is rapidly growing in the field of educational measurement. In this study, we analyzed the keystroke logs collected from 761 middle school students in the United States as they completed a persuasive writing task. Seven variables were extracted from the…

With this study, it was aimed at drawing attention to the troubles and problems encountered by the teachers in the presence of various variables regarding the teaching of the history topics in the 7th grade social studies course. At the same time, in order to offer solution suggestions for teaching history topics effectively, we have tried to…

Given reflection symmetry, the moment generating function symmetry is necessary and sufficient for the random walk model to be equivalent to a sequential probability ratio test. For a related article, see TM 501 715. (Author/RC)

This study explored the representation that readers construct when advancing through the description of an unfolding occurrence. In 3 experiments, participants read narratives describing a sequence of events and at a certain moment were tested for the accessibility of an entity from a past event. Entities were less accessible when the temporal…

THE INVESTIGATORS HYPOTHESIZED THAT SCRAMBLING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE BASED ON HIERARCHICAL CONCEPTS WOULD BE HIGHLY DETRIMENTAL TO LEARNING, BUT THAT SCRAMBLING A SEQUENCE OF RELATIVELY UNRELATED FACTS WOULD NOT AFFECT LEARNING. IT WAS ALSO EXPECTED THAT SCRAMBLING WOULD BE MOST DETRIMENTAL TO LOW ABILITY STUDENTS, BUT WOULD NOT AFFECT HIGH…

Discusses factors the author considers drawbacks of IPI: 1) The strong emphasis on sequence; 2) The validity placed on diagnostic tests; 3) The determination of 85 percent correct responses as a major criterion for determining success; 4) Discussion and interpersonal skills are not developed. (Author/AF)

Objective rules of sequencing were applied to elementary level instructional material to determine their effect on time, errors made during instruction, and posttest errors. Results are discussed in terms of the application of the rules to various types of instructional material. (Author/BJG)

This paper describes the MAIS and presents the BASIC programming code for the heuristic employed in this expert tutor management system, which is based on the findings of investigations of the direct connections among such learning environment factors as individual differences, cognitive learning theory, instructional technology, subject matter…

A theory of discrimination which assumes that subjects compare psychological values evoked by a stimulus to a subjective referent is proposed. For a related article, see TM 501 716. (Author/RC)

Twenty-two college students in science education were given an adjunctive computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program by means of typewriter consoles and computer-controlled colored slide presentations of critical information. Students were pretested, told how to respond at the student console, taught by the Harvard CAI System, and posttested. The…

A review of 20 research studies on the use of constant time delay in teaching chained tasks is analyzed in regard to demographic variables (participants, settings), procedural variables (probe format, delay sessions), outcome measures (effectiveness, generalization), and methodological adequacy (dependent and independent variable reliability). (DB)

A two-phased research project sought to develop instructional sequences for computer-assisted technical training materials which would reduce student learning time. In Phase I, technical concepts embedded in training materials were subjected to Inscal Multidimensional Scaling to determine their complexity and relationships; the materials were then…

A mathematical model for computer-aided instruction has been developed. The assumption is made that the course is divided into a hierarchy of levels of difficulty and that if a student is able to perform successfully at a given level of difficulty, he can also perform successfully at all levels of lesser difficulty. Furthermore, if a student…