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Salend, Spencer J.; Duhaney, Devon; Anderson, Deborah J.; Gottschalk, Charleen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2004
This article describes development and implementation of a homework Web site to encourage parent involvement in students' homework. The Web site included homework policies, practices, and specific assignments and provided a format for individualizing homework assignments and communication. Insets include a summary of the literature, a list of…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Homework, Internet, Parent Participation
Packard, Abbot L.; Holmes, Glen A. – 2000
This paper investigates a collaboration between faculty and students in a college statistics course to develop a method of quickly getting homework graded with feedback indicated and returned to the students. Using a World Wide Web site to deliver this support was a possible solution. A survey was developed to gain student input in the process of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Design Preferences
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Hall, Randall W.; Butler, Leslie G.; McGuire, Saundra Y.; McGlynn, Sean P.; Lyon, Gary L.; Reese, Ron L.; Limbach, Patrick A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2001
Uses the World Wide Web to provide an active learning environment with rapid and accurate homework feedback which is also an effective tool to foster critical thinking skills. Allows students to submit a second chance homework following feedback to a previously wrongly answered question. (YDS)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Chemistry, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking
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Penn, John H.; Nedeff, Vincent M.; Gozdzik, Gloria – Journal of Chemical Education, 2000
Describes the development and implementation of a web-based software engine that selects from a database of questions for students to answer and provides immediate feedback for students and instructor. Discusses the results of using this technology in an organic chemistry section. (Contains 22 references.) (WRM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
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Fidel, Raya; Davies, Rachel K.; Douglass, Mary H.; Holder, Jenny K.; Hopkins, Carla J.; Kushner, Elisabeth J.; Miyagishima, Bryan K.; Toney, Christina D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Analyzes Web-searching behavior for homework assignments of high school students through field observations in class and at the computer terminal with students thinking aloud, and through interviews with various participants. Results emphasize the need for training and for system design based on user seeking and search behavior. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, High School Students
Gorelik, Kimberley – 2000
A middle school language arts teacher relates how she used the Internet to "scaffold" students' learning. She notes teachers have begun the shift from assigning rote homework to assigning independent work that gives the student the opportunity to test the information on his or her own, and that children need time to make the shift from…
Descriptors: Assignments, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education