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Catherine Schifter
Temple University
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Catherine Schifter
Temple University
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Reflections of Student Teachers: An Online Collaborative Peer Group Process
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2083–2088
Reflective practice of student teaching has been part of the teacher preparation process for many years. The majority of the examples and discussions have been about student teachers reflecting alone, or merely about the process and practice of...
Topics: Teachers, Students, Collaboration
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A Collaborative Course Portfolio: The Core Curriculum of a Core Course
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 459–460
Core courses are those which are deemed to be essential to a major, whether in Teacher Education, History or English. Typically there are several sections of core courses, not all taught by the same persons. How do we engage faculty in the process ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Faculty
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Bloom's Taxonomy vs Dale's Cone of Experience for Twenty-First Century Students
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2371–2374
Two psychological frameworks (Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and Dale’s Cone of Experience), along with twenty-first century student skills, are explored to help guide decisions for infusing technology into education. This paper is totally exploratory and ...
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Technology and Teaching: Comparison of Three Professional Development Programs
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3604–3607
The real tests of the impact of technology professional development in classrooms are teachers demonstrating uses computers in pedagogically appropriate ways and enhanced student achievement. Professional development to infuse technology into...
Topics: Teachers, Change, Educational Technology, Professional Development, Classrooms
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EETT in a large, urban school district: Preliminary data
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1026–1028
The Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) Act of 2001 is supporting many opportunities for supporting student academic achievement through technology, as well as providing effective integration of technology resources in schools. This paper...
Topics: Schools, Educational Technology
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Perception Differences about Participating in Distance Education
Catherine Schifter
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 5, No. 1 (2002)
Describes a survey of faculty and administrators at a research university that investigated faculty use of technology in teaching, motivating and inhibiting factors for participating in distance education, and understanding of policies on distance...
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Staff Development: A Tale of Two Programs
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 712–715
Abstract: Over the last decade or more, large amounts of money have been invested in establishing school based computer labs, classrooms with Internet connections, and at least on Internet ready computer per classroom. Research indicates that...
Topics: Literacy, Educational Technology, Change, Internet, Instructional Materials
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The Reflective E-Portfolio in Blackboard: A Case Study
Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 238–240
Abstract: Reflective practice and portfolios of student teachers work have each been part of the teacher preparation process for many years. However, putting these two practices together into an e-portfolio is a relatively new idea. This paper...
Topics: Teachers, Portfolios, Students
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Compensation Models in Distance Education: National Survey Questionnaire Revisited
Catherine C. Schifter
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 7, No. 1 (2004)
Distance education (DE) is now closer to being main stream than many faculty and administrators in universities thought it would be, however, for many faculty members, losing the apparent locus of control from the traditional classroom to that of...
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Do Instructional Management Systems Support Learning? Case Study in One Urban School District
Catherine Schifter; Joseph Ducette
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3139–3145
An instructional management system (IMS), delivering student data directly to the user's desktop, is a tool suggested by many to support accountability required through NCLB. Implementation of an IMS across a large urban school district provided...
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Teacher acceptance of game-based learning in K-12: The case of River City
Catherine Schifter; Diane Ketelhut
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3836–3842
Integrating game-based learning (GBL) into K-12 classrooms is more of a challenge for some teachers than others. Teachers ask: Does GBL enhance learning? Experienced teachers are often skeptical. This paper explores a case study of the River City...
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Enhancing Education Through Technology: Factors that would predict teacher use of an IMS
Catherine Schifter; Alexander Tabori
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1033–1036
Instructional Management Systems (IMS) are being introduced into the fabric of public education. This study examined the implementation process of an IMS in a large urban school. Factors that predicted teacher use were also assessed. Using the...
Topics: Learning Outcomes, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology, Teachers
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Minecraft as a teaching tool: One case study
Catherine Schifter; Maria Cipollone
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2951–2955
We know games help students gain skills and insights in many ways, and that games are engaging. With new online MMOPRPG games, like Minecraft, what we do not know is what draws teachers and/or students to wanting to use this game in educational ways,...
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Online Focus Group: A Tool to Evaluate Online Students' Course Experience
Dominique Monolescu; Catherine Schifter
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 2, No. 2 pp. 171–176
This study suggests that virtual focus groups can be used as a powerful research tool to evaluate students' online course experiences. Students taking courses through the Internet want to be in control of when to access their course content. They...
Language: English
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Teaching in the 21 st century
Catherine C. Schifter
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 1, No. 4 (1998) pp. 281–290
One of the hottest topics in higher education today is distance or distributed education (DE)—whether to get into it or not, whether it's as good as traditional in-class education or not, what forms of DE are better than others, whether it's a...
Language: English
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Addressing Standardized Testing through a Novel Assesment Model
Catherine C. Schifter; Martha Carey
International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) 2014 (October 2014)
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation spawned a plethora of standardized testing services for all the high stakes testing required by the law. We argue that one-size-fits all assessments disadvantage students who are English Language Learners, ...
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Minecraft as a Creative Tool: A Case Study
Maria Cipollone; Catherine Schifter; Rick Moffat
International Journal of Game-Based Learning Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 2014) pp. 1–14
Many scholars are enthusiastic about the potential learning opportunities present in the sandbox-style gaming environment, Minecraft. In the following case study, the authors explored the use of Minecraft in a high school literature class and the...
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Teachers and game-based learning: Improving understanding of how to increase efficacy of adoption
Diane Jass Ketelhut; Catherine C. Schifter
Computers & Education Vol. 56, No. 2 (February 2011) pp. 539–546
Interest in game-based learning for K-12 is growing. Thus, helping teachers understand how to use these new pedagogies is important. This paper presents a cross-case study of the development of teacher professional development for the River City...
Language: English
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Presence Theory and Virtual Games: A Case of SAVE Science
Catherine Schifter; Diane Ketelhut; Brian Nelson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3615–3618
This paper introduces the concept of "presence" as a theoreticl lens for understanding how and why students engage in a virtual game to assess their understanding of science inquiry through an NSF-grant funded project SAVE Science.
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R&D: Save Science: Situated asssesment using virtual environments for science content and inquiry.
Diane Ketelhut; Catherine Schifter; Brian Nelson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3663–3665
SAVE Science is an NSF-funded project aimed at designing and implementing a virtual environment situated assessment modules for assessing middle grades science content and inquiry. Emerging technologies allow for virtual recreation of scientists’...
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Teachers Using an IMS and Data Driven Decision Making: Success Factors from Six Schools
Erin Jurgensen; Rebecca Thompson; Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1542–1549
Computer based solutions offer means for supporting accountability and use of data to drive decisions about instruction. The instructional management system (IMS), delivering student data directly to the user's desktop, is such tool, but will...
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Introducing Interactive Whiteboards to Urban Teachers
Diane Ketelhut; Catherine Schifter; Susan Jansen Varnum; Judith Stull
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3789–3792
Helping teachers become comfortable enough with a particular technology so they can appropriately integrate that technology into their pedagogical toolbox is a goal of much professional development. This is referred to as technological pedagogical...
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Middle Grade Students’ Perceptions of Virtual Environment based Assessments: SAVE Science Study
Uma Natarajan; Mandy Kirchgessner; Catherine Schifter; Diane Ketelhut
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2913–2918
This proposal explores middle grade students’ perceptions of an innovative kind of assessment called SAVE Science, which is situated within an immersive virtual environment (IVE). SAVE Science assessments are inquiry based and game-like those allow...
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Data-Driven Decision-Making: Facilitating Teacher Use of Student Data to Inform Classroom Instruction
Catherine Schifter; Uma Natarajan; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Amanda Kirchgessner
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (December 2014) pp. 419–432
Data-driven decision making is essential in K-12 education today, but teachers often do not know how to make use of extensive data sets. Research shows that teachers are not taught how to use extensive data (i.e., multiple data sets) to reflect on...
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Middle School Children Participation in an Immersive Virtual Game Environment, Presence, and Piaget's Stages of Development
Catherine C Schifter; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Brian C Nelson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2230–2237
In this paper we explore definitions of presence put forth over the last 20 years, and how these apply to middle school students. These students were engaged in an immersive virtual environment (SAVE Science) designed to assess their knowledge and...
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Presence and Middle School Students' Participation in a Virtual Game Environment to Assess Science Inquiry
Catherine C. Schifter; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Brian C. Nelson
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 1 (2012) pp. 53–63
Technology offers many opportunities for educators to support teaching, learning and assessment. This paper introduces a project to design and implement a virtual environment (SAVE Science) intended to assess (not teach) middle school students'...
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Improving Science Assessments by Situating Them in a Virtual Environment
Diane Jass Ketelhut; Brian Nelson; Catherine Schifter; Younsu Kim
Education Sciences Vol. 3, No. 2 (2013) pp. 172–192
Current science assessments typically present a series of isolated fact-based questions, poorly representing the complexity of how real-world science is constructed. The National Research Council asserts that this needs to change to reflect a more...
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Strategic Scaffolding for Scientific Inquiry
Angela Shelton; Uma Natarajan; Catherine Willard; Tera Kane; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Catherine Schifter
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 4 (October 2013) pp. 423–437
** Invited as a paper from SITE 2012 ** Though many national and international science organizations stress the importance of integrating scientific inquiry into classroom instruction, this is often difficult for teachers. Moreover, assessing and...
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Scaffolding for Scientific Inquiry
Uma Natarajan; Angela Shelton; Tera Kane; Catherine Willard; Diane Ketelhut; Catherine Schifter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2577–2581
Situated Assessments Using Virtual Environments (SAVE) Science is an NSF-funded study that explores the use of immersive virtual environments (IVEs) for assessing science content and inquiry. Using a series of assessment modules designed to elicit...
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Data Driven Decision Making: Facilitating teachers’ use of Student Data to change classroom instruction
Catherine Schifter; Uma Natarajan; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Martha Carey; Minjung Ryu
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2945–2950
Data driven decision making has become a significant part of teachers’ practice, and yet, teachers are not typical taught how to use different sets of data to support their teaching, or students’ learning, and it is an onerous process. This paper...
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Towards a Model of Building a Teacher-University Group Partnership
Angela Shelton; Uma Natarajan; Catherine Schifter; Tera Kane; Diane Jass Ketelhut
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1970–1975
This paper is about a professional development model that was designed to build a collaborative partnership between a group of university researchers and middle school science teachers as part of the SAVE Science project. We discuss the partnership...