Education & learning publications
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Using Information Technology For Delivering Education In The United States: A Status Report
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Educational Software Architecture And Systemic Impact: The Promise Of Component Software
This report describes results from a national telephone survey that asked parents about their attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to early learning, science learning, and digital media use…
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Scantron Administrator Training Guide
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Protocol Modeling, Bifurcation/Bootstrapping, And Convince Me: Computer-Based Methods For Studying Beliefs And Their Revision
This paper traces a progression of four computer-based methods for studying and fostering both the structure and the on-line development of knowledge. Each empirical technique employs ECHO, a connectionist model…
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Learning In Interactive Environments: Prior Knowledge And New Experience
Educators often focus on the ideas that they want their audience to have. But research has shown that a learner’s prior knowledge often confounds an educator’s best efforts to deliver…
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Children’s Interest In and Understanding Of Science And Technology: A Study Of The Effects Of CRO
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Year 2000: Using Technology To Build Communities Of Understanding
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No Girls Allowed
Discusses girls’ use of computers and examines why they are often discouraged and lose interest.
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On Using Technology For Understanding Science
This essay calls for the science education community to consider seriously the educational implications of technology-derived fundamental changes in scientific methodologies.
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Supporting Pascal Programming With An On-Line Template Library And Case Studies
In this project, we devised an on-line network of Pascal programming templates called a template library, and tested it with subjects (classified as novice, intermediate, and expert Pascal programmers) both…
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Beyond The Light Bulb: The Promise Of Technology In The Edison Project
Describes the Edison Project, a plan to integrate technology into schools and school systems that will support communication, collaboration, research, text and multimedia authoring and publishing, resource access and management,…
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Constructing A Joint Problem Space: The Computer As A Tool For Sharing Knowledge
This chapter presents a case study intended to exemplify the use of a computer as a cognitive tool for learning that occurs socially. We investigate a particularly important kind of…