International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education


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The major focus of this Handbook is the design and potential of IT-based student learning environments. Offering the latest research in IT and the learning process, distance learning, and emerging technologies for education, these chapters address the critical issue of the potential for IT to improve K-12 education. A second important theme deals with the implementation of IT in educational practice. In these chapters, barriers and opportunities for IT implementation are studied from several perspectives. This Handbook provides an integrated and detailed overview of this complex field, making it an essential reference.







Impact of Information Technology


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The aim of this book is to present readers with state-of-the-art options which allow pupils as well as teachers to cope with the social impacts and implications of information technology and the rapid technological developments of the past 25 years. The book explores the following key areas: the adaption of curricula to the social needs of society; the influences of multimedia on social interaction; morals, values and ethics in the information technology curriculum; social and pedagogical variables which promote information technology use; and social implications of distance learning through the medium of information technology. This volume contains the selected proceedings of the TC3/TC9 International Working Conference of the Impact of Information technology, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Israel, March, 1996.




The Effect of Technology on Students' Achievement and Motivation


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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of computer instruction (CAI) and tradition on the achievement of fourth-grade computer students. One hundred and nineteen students were selected and randomly divided into two groups: an experimental and a control group (60 and 59 participants respectively). Using a posttest-only control group design and a t-test for independent samples, it was found that the students who were instructed by using the Computer Literacy Series (Version 2) software, developed by the researcher, achieved significantly higher scores on the posttest than students who were instructed using the traditional learning method (t=2.14, p=0.05). In addition, results of the affective questionnaire administered to CAI users showed motivation towards using the Computer Literacy Series software. It was conclude that the designed software was significantly effective in raising the achievement and motivation level of student who used technology as a means to enhancing their content knowledge of Computer as subject matter. Limitations of the current study and recommendations for the future research were also discussed.




Teaching Digital Natives


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Students today are growing up in a digital world. These "digital natives" learn in new and different ways, so educators need new approaches to make learning both real and relevant for today's students. Marc Prensky, who first coined the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants," presents an intuitive yet highly innovative and field-tested partnership model that promotes 21st-century student learning through technology. Partnership pedagogy is a framework in which: - Digitally literate students specialize in content finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media - Teachers specialize in guiding student learning, providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality - Administrators support, organize, and facilitate the process schoolwide - Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and "getting things done" With numerous strategies, how-to's, partnering tips, and examples, Teaching Digital Natives is a visionary yet practical book for preparing students to live and work in today's globalized and digitalized world.




The Effects of Computer-assisted Instruction on Students' Attitude and Achievement in Mathematics


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This study was initiated to determine if computer-assisted instruction contributes to an increase in mathematics performance of elementary school pupils in comparison to students who use the traditional assisted instruction method. The sample comprised 46 students who were subject to a pretest and posted after receiving CAI in mathematics. A T-test analysis of the results revealed a gain in the scores of the CAI contributes to the overall performance of students when Information Technology is integrated into the curriculum.




Meta-Analysis with R


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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social sciences who wish to learn how to perform meta-analysis with R. As such, the book introduces the key concepts and models used in meta-analysis. It also includes chapters on the following advanced topics: publication bias and small study effects; missing data; multivariate meta-analysis, network meta-analysis; and meta-analysis of diagnostic studies.




Scientific Teaching


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Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.




Information Technology in Education


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