American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
April 2000
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 96
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Portals: A Window into Telemonitoring Relationships in Project-Based Computational Science Classes
Kallen Tsikalas, Katherine McMillan-Culp, Wendy Friedman & Margaret Honey
The Portals project examined the roles, functions, and strategies that students, teachers, and mentors bring to complex on-line, project-based learning experiences. Data for the study consisted of ... More
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Learning Partnerships in a Remote Rural Setting
Colin Boylan & Andrew Wallace
The New South Wales (Australia) Department of Education and Training has been employing distance education for remote students since the 1950s, using high-frequency radio supplemented by printed... More
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Current Trends and Future Prospects for Archiving Scholarly Communication: The Case of Electronic Journals
Robert V. Labaree
The development of stand-alone, Web-based electronic journals began shortly after the Internet became widely accessible among researchers. These journals represented one of the first attempts to... More
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Modern Media and Instructional Technology in Vocational Education: Some Experiences of the Diffusion of New Technology in the Adult Education Institutions
Saija Maki-Komsi & Eero Ropo
A study investigated teachers' experiences of educational and cultural change in adult education institutions. The initial assumption of the study was that the institutional shift from traditional ... More
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The APA Task Force on Statistical Inference (TFSI) Report as a Framework for Teaching and Evaluating Students' Understandings of Study Validity
Bruce Thompson
Web-based statistical instruction, like all statistical instruction, ought to focus on teaching the essence of the research endeavor: the exercise of reflective judgment. Using the framework of the... More
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To Avoid Conflicts: A Multimedia Training Concept for Reflected Communication
Michael Henninger, Heinz Mandl, Maria Linz & Andreas Horfurter
A multimedia training concept was developed which aims at reducing misunderstandings and thus avoiding conflicts by fostering a more differentiated understanding of utterances. Based upon the... More
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Electronic Portfolios in Teacher Education Reading Methods Courses
Carla Hagen Piper
The question of how to use technology effectively in the assessment of teacher candidates to demonstrate achievement of course objectives based on state certification standards led to the... More
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Strategies To Support Self-Directed Learning in a Web-Based Course
Katherine S. Cennamo & John D. Ross
This study investigated techniques for supporting college students' self-regulation within a core course in child development. The course incorporated Web-based instructional elements as ancillary ... More
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Building a Case for Conducting Technology Surveys On-Line
Jon J. Denton & Arlen Strader
A Technology in Texas Public Schools 1998 Survey instrument was integrated into a Web-based response system enabling the instrument to be accessed, completed, submitted, and instantaneously... More
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Online Education as a Means for Workplace Learning: A Case Study
Dorothy L. Finley
A review of the research on online education was conducted to determine whether online education could serve the self-development requirements of the U.S. Army's Armored Forces Research Unit. Self-... More
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Teachers Learning To Use Technology within the Context of a Laptop Learning Initiative: The Interplay of Personal Histories, Social Dynamics and Institutional Culture
Kurt Sahl & Mark Windschitl
This study examined how middle school teachers co-constructed norms and practices related to classroom use of laptop computers, focusing on a school that gave laptop computers to teachers, provided... More
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Predictors of Ohio K-4 Student Competencies on the National Educational Technology Standards
Teresa Franklin
Beginning in 1994, the Ohio SchoolNet Program has worked to place computers in the Ohio Public Schools, and the SchoolNet Plus Initiative has provided at least one interactive computer workstation ... More
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Achieving Equality of Student Internet Access within Schools
Janet Ward Schofield & Ann Locke Davidson
One benefit often expected to flow from Internet use in schools is an increase in equality of educational opportunity as all kinds of schools gain access to the same extraordinary set of resources ... More
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Overview of Mentoring: Exploring Possibilities
Pedro Portes, Robert Longwell-Grice & Peter Chan
This paper outlines a project by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division C to pair graduate students seeking mentors with willing mentors on different campuses. Mentoring has ... More
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Internet Use and Teacher Change
Janet Ward Schofield & Ann Locke Davidson
This paper explores the impact of Internet access in schools on teachers' professional lives, experiences, and capabilities. The research was conducted within the context of Common Knowledge:... More
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Convergence on the Guidelines for Designing a Web-Based Art-Teacher Education Curriculum: A Delphi Study
Yu Nu Yang
The rise of the World Wide Web as a new information processing technology has attracted the attention of educators worldwide. The purpose of this study was to seek a consensus among art education... More
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Deeper than Blueberries: A Reciprocal Teaching Method Approach to Narrative Text in an Electronically Supported Learning Environment
Bart Pisha & Mary Brady
This paper describes a five-phase, 20-week, computer supported reading comprehension instruction process, which begins with access to powerful supports and direct teacher-mediated instruction. The ... More
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Are We Ready To Abandon the Classroom? The Dark Side of Web Instruction
LeoNora M. Cohen
This paper discusses four assumptions and four concerns regarding instruction using the World Wide Web. The assumptions address: the novice status of the Web course developer; the developer's... More
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"I Don't Have Enough Time": Teachers' Interpretations of Time as a Key to Learning and School Change
Vivienne Collinson & Tanya Fedoruk Cook
This study investigated inner-city middle school teachers' perceptions of the importance of time in learning and sharing information. Participating teachers were involved in a technology... More
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Technology-Using Teachers: Comparing Perceptions of Exemplary Technology Use to Best Practice
Peggy A. Ertmer, Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan & Eva Ross
In this exploratory study, researchers compared characteristics and teaching practices of teachers, perceived by themselves to be exemplary technology-users, with characteristics and teaching... More
