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Radford, Curt L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Advances in technology have significantly influenced educational delivery options, particularly in the area of American Sign Language (ASL) instruction. As a result, ASL online courses are currently being explored in higher education. The review of literature remains relatively unexplored regarding the effectiveness of learning ASL online. In…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Expressive Language
Bell, Tracey R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to (a) evaluate and discuss strengths and weaknesses in the current system of identifying gifted students and (b) investigate the effectiveness of using the Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities Test to identify underrepresented and gifted minority students in grades one through five in Central Mississippi. The study consisted…
Descriptors: Selection Criteria, Gifted, Talent Identification, Ability Identification
Buelin-Biesecker, Jennifer Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study compared the creative outcomes in student work resulting from two pedagogical approaches to creative problem solving activities. A secondary goal was to validate the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) as a means of assessing creativity. Linear models for problem solving and design processes serve as the current paradigm in classroom…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Creativity, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
King-Sears, Margaret E.; Carran, Deborah T.; Dammann, Stacey N.; Arter, Patricia Sullivan – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2012
In this study, the researchers examined self-ratings from special and general education teacher candidates engaged in their culminating instructional activity prior to graduation: student teaching. Acquiring data at the end of the student teaching experience was targeted because student teaching is when teacher candidates apply the knowledge and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Special Education, Student Teaching, Teaching Experience
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Watts, Christopher; Simons, Janet Thomas; Baird, David – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
In 2007, Hamilton College, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University received a grant from the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Instructional Innovation Fund to take stock of the ways in which multimodal assignments were being used on campuses and to look in particular at the ways in which such assignments…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Scholarship, Assignments
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Koszalka, Tiffany A.; Ntloedibe-Kuswani, G. S. – Distance Education, 2010
Worldwide growth in use of mobile phones has fostered the emergence of mobile learning. Mobile technologies are used both in classrooms to support instruction (safe) and as tools that significantly change instructional activities, learner roles, and learning location (disruptive). Learners become less consumers of information and more…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Information Technology, Literature Reviews
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Barkhi, Reza; Williams, Paul – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
With the proliferation of computer networks and the increased use of Internet-based applications, many forms of social interactions now take place in an on-line context through "Computer-Mediated Communication" (CMC). Many universities are now reaping the benefits of using CMC applications to collect data on student evaluations of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Faculty Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Gibbons, Scott – English Journal, 2010
The wiki is an excellent tool for student collaboration and teacher assessment. Students' comfort with online social networking makes the wiki a perfect forum for students to coauthor works and to respond to each other's writing. In this article, the author discusses how to use a wiki to promote discussion and aid students with writing. He tested…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Social Networks, Educational Practices, Technology Uses in Education
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Lee, Kathryn S.; Osborne, Randall E.; Carpenter, David N. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
Prompted by a previous study investigating the effects of pacing on the academic testing performance of college students with AD/HD, we further explored our preliminary findings, which suggested that a computerized testing environment enhanced the testing performance of college students with AD/HD. We compared the effects of a computerized vs.…
Descriptors: College Students, Testing Accommodations, Testing, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Hogg, Linda; Yates, Anne – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
This formative evaluation within a graduate initial teacher education program sought to identify student teachers' perceptions of lecturer practice and its influence on their developing practice. Data collected from course and teaching evaluations and focus group interviews suggested that microstructural course elements--lectures, tutorials, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Course Organization, Student Teachers
Mamantov, Tonya Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A challenge for todays instructional leaders is identifying the most effective method of educating English Language Learners (ELLs) who participate in the English as a Second Language (ESL) program. The primary purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of three programs used for ESL students in twelve elementary schools in a Urban…
Descriptors: Investigations, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners
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Carroll, David – Journal of Institutional Research, 2011
Historically, responses to the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) were required to be collected by self-administered paper or online questionnaire to be eligible for official analysis. CEQ responses collected by telephone were excluded from the final analysis file to minimise the potential for bias due to mode effects: systematic variation in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Regression (Statistics), Intermode Differences, Telephone Surveys
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Antoniou, Panayiotis; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
This paper argues that Educational Effectiveness Research (EER) should establish closer links with research on teacher professional development. A dynamic integrated approach (DIA) to teacher professional development is proposed. The methods and results of a study comparing the impact of the DIA and the Holistic Approach (HA) to teacher…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Skills, Professional Development
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Adam, A. K. M.; Ascough, Richard; Gravett, Sandra; Hunt, Alice; Martin, Dale; Wimberly, Edward; Yang, Seung Ai – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2009
This manuscript is an edited transcript of a panel discussion held at a Society of Biblical Literature conference (Boston, Massachusetts, November 22 to 24, 2008). Alice Hunt begins the discussion by summarizing the content and significance of a new book by Dale Martin, "The Pedagogy of The Bible" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) in which he…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Liberal Arts, Religious Education, Hermeneutics
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Fredlund, Katherine – CEA Forum, 2010
This section will reflect on two different classroom designs from my own teaching experience: one that required students to bring laptops and one that required only paper and pen. Because traditional classrooms were likely designed without taking technology into consideration, teachers should be aware of what the design of the classroom says about…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Classroom Design
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