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Maycock, Keith W.; Keating, J. G. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
This experimental study investigates the effect on the examination performance of a cohort of first-year undergraduate learners undertaking a Unified Modelling Language (UML) course using an adaptive learning system against a control group of learners undertaking the same UML course through a traditional lecturing environment. The adaptive…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Metadata, Computer Assisted Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Díaz, A.; Nussbaum, M.; Varela, I. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
Recent research has suggested that simply providing each child with a computer does not lead to an improvement in learning. Given that dozens of countries across the world are purchasing computers for their students, we ask which elements are necessary to improve learning when introducing digital resources into the classroom. Understood the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Hsu, P. -S.; Van Dyke, M.; Chen, Y.; Smith, T. J. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to explore how seventh graders in a suburban school in the United States developed argumentation skills and science knowledge in a project-based learning environment that incorporated a graph-oriented, computer-assisted application. A total of 54 students (three classes) comprised this treatment…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Grade 7, Suburban Schools, Persuasive Discourse
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Gunbas, N. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a computer-based story, which was designed in anchored instruction framework, on sixth-grade students' mathematics word problem-solving achievement. Problems were embedded in a story presented on a computer as computer story, and then compared with the paper-based version of the same story…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Arslanyilmaz, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
The purpose of this article is twofold: to describe a prototype for a computer-assisted task-based language instruction (CATBI) tool designed and developed for Turkish as a Foreign Language, and to report on the effectiveness of the CATBI tool. More specifically, this work discusses an experimental study that examined the role of teaching approach…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning