Education & learning publications
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Globe Year 1 Evaluation: Findings
Global learning and observations to benefit the environment (GLOBE) is an international environmental science and education program involving elementary and secondary school students in the collection of data concerning their…
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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,…