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Barbara Grabowski
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Barbara Grabowski
Penn State University
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A Symposium: Relevant Cue Research, a Program of Systematic Evaluation: Considerations for Sustaining Instructional Design Research Using an Integrated Learning System
Barbara Grabowski
An intelligent videodisc system on which comprehensive instructional development research can be conducted has been developed. This integrated learning system combines all other existing media, except objects, using a videodisc, microcomputer,...
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Reflections on Why Media Comparison Studies Continue To Be Conducted--with Suggested Alternatives
Barbara L. Grabowski
This paper discusses media comparison studies and reasons that research of this nature is pursued, especially in the area of computer-based interactive video (CBIV). Three scenarios are presented to demonstrate instances in which the knowledge of...
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The Effects of Planning on Different Affective and Outcome Measures in Cross Cultural Collaborative Problem Solving
Hien Nguyen; Barbara Grabowski
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 6377–6382
Cross-cultural collaboration without sufficient planning can lead to frustrations and failures. This study examines the effects of systematic planning in scaffolding undergraduate students' cross-cultural collaborative processes. The study employs a ...
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Framework for Asynchronous Discussion Design Decisions: Applied Principles from Special Issue Authors
Barbara L. Grabowski
Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 2011) pp. 187–199
After a discussion of the state of both misaligned and informative online and distance education research, the authors in this special issue (hereafter called the collective) extract evidence-based principles about strategies that work. Both are...
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The Use of Humor in a CBI Science Lesson To Enhance Retention
Wendy Snetsinger; Barbara Grabowski
Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1994 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Sponsored by the Research and Theory Division (1994)
This research experiment studied the effect of humor versus non-humor on learning and retention of a computer-based instructional (CBI) lesson on tick identification. The experiment also surveyed the subjects' enjoyment of the lesson material, their ...
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The Development of a Research Agenda and Generic Disc for Computer-Based Interactive Video
Barbara Grabowski; Robert Pearson
This paper describes the development of a conceptual framework for conducting research using computer based interactive video and a generic disc as research tools. It is argued that computer based interactive video represents the beginnings of a...
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Web-Based Animation or Static Graphics: Is the Extra Cost of Animation Worth It?
Li Zhu; Barbara Grabowski
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 15, No. 3 (July 2006) pp. 329–347
This quantitative study compared the instructional effects of two web-based animation strategies against static graphics by high and low prior knowledge participants. One strategy used animation to gain attention; the second to gain attention and...
Topics: Computer-Based Training, Interactive Multimedia Systems, Educational multimedia, Web-based Instruction, online teaching, Inclusive Education, Instructional Design, Integration, web-based learning, e-learning, online learning, Technology integration, web-based, hypermedia, Multimedia, design
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The Effects of Various Animation Strategies in Facilitating the Achievement of Students on Tests Measuring Different Educational Objectives
Li Zhu; Barbara Grabowski
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the instructional effects of various animation strategies. Three treatment groups involved include static graphic, animation used as an attention-gaining strategy, and animation used as an...
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Two Research Paradigms for Use with Videodisc-Based Stimulus Material in Research on Interactivity and Media Effectiveness
Charles R. Dills; Barbara Grabowski
Videodiscs have four characteristics that are valuable to the researcher, namely, that: (1) the contents of the videodisc are permanent, allowing multiple repetitions using the same material; (2) the order and sequencing of the material may be...
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Exploring Instructional Design Factors Prompting Reflective Thinking in Young Adolescents
Hae-Deok Song; Tiffany Koszalka; Barbara Grabowski; Barbara Grabowski
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jun 15, 2005)
Reflective thinking is important to young adolescents as they develop their thinking skills. Various instructional methods have been recommended to support reflective thinking, yet the nature of the underlying factors in these methods is unclear....
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An Examination of Course Task Requirements by Interaction Types and Support Tools for E-Learning
Barbara Grabowski; J. David Popp
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 986–989
Fostering interactions among their students is a primary goal of instruction. Consistent with constructivism, this premise follows from a learning philosophy that instruction must be actively engaging and knowledge socially constructed to be...
Topics: Interaction, Learning Objects, Learning Management Systems
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Designing Web-Based Science Lesson Plans That Use Problem-Based Learning To Inspire Middle School Kids: KaAMS (Kids as Airborne Mission Scientists)
Tiffany A. Koszalka; Barbara Grabowski; Younghoon Kim
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2002 (April 2002)
Problem-based learning (PBL) has great potential for inspiring K-12 learning. KaAMS (Kids as Airborne Mission Scientists), an example of PBL, was designed to help teachers inspire middle school students to learning science, math, technology, and...
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Web Enhanced Instruction and Learning: Findings of a Short and Long Term Impact Study and Teacher Use of NASA’s Web Resources
Barbara Grabowski; Marianne McCarthy; Tiffany Koszalka
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 499–502
Abstract: This presentation will report on the culminating findings of the Short and Long-Term Impact Study of the Web-Enhanced Instruction and Learning addressing a broad spectrum of data gathered from teachers about their experiences using NASA's...
Topics: Teaching Methods, Teachers
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Patterns of Exploration and Learning with Hypermedia
Eileen E. Schroeder; Barbara L. Grabowski
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 13, No. 4 (1995) pp. 313–35
Describes a study of undergraduates that compared navigational study strategies, the extent of lesson coverage, and attitudes about learning with three types of hypermedia lessons to examine how learners use different types of graphical browsers in...
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Effects on Children's Achievement and Curiosity of Variations in Learner Control over an Interactive Video Lesson
Marilyn P. Arnone; Barbara L. Grabowski
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 40, No. 1 (1992) pp. 15–27
The effects of variations in learner control were examined for an interactive lesson presented as a videodisc visit to an art museum. The 101 first and second grade subjects were assigned to program control, learner control, and learner control with ...
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Computerized Systems of Career Information and Guidance: A State-of-the-Art
Marilyn D. Jacobson; Barbara T. Grabowski
Journal of Educational Technology Systems Vol. 10, No. 3 (1981) pp. 235–55
Describes three categories of computer-based information systems for career guidance (batch process, online information retrieval, and online career guidance), addresses the issue of effectiveness, and discusses the approach to system selection used ...
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Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation for Problem Solving Using Goal-Oriented Contexts and Peer Group Composition
Hae-Deok Song; Barbara L. Grabowski
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 54, No. 5 (October 2006) pp. 445–466
One important factor related to ill-structured problem-solving success is intrinsic motivation, that is, students' willingness to persist in solving the problem. Goal orientation, a motivational variable, explains reasons why students engage in the...
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Interactive Video and Cognitive Structures: A Technique for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Interactive Simulations and Games
Alexander J. Romiszowski; Barbara L. Grabowski
In the late 1960s and early 1970s a considerable amount of research was conducted on methods for authoring and structuring instructional materials by researchers who did not, at that time, have access to the existing delivery systems necessary to...
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Computerized Systems of Career Information and Guidance: A State-of-the-Art
Marilyn D. Jacobson; Barbara T. Grabowski
The need for timely, accurate, and locally relevant career information has been escalating. Within the last 15 years, computer-based systems have been developed that put occupational descriptions, labor market information, plus education, training,...
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Combining Assessment and Research during Development of Large Technology Integration Projects
Tiffany A. Koszalka; Barbara L. Grabowski
Evaluation and Program Planning Vol. 26, No. 2 (2003) pp. 203–13
Provides brief definitions of assessment, evaluation, and research and describes strategies for integrating and managing assessment and research activities for a large education technology development project. Provides examples of tools used to...
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The Effects of Varied Visual Organizational Strategies within Computer-Based Instruction on Factual, Conceptual and Problem Solving Learning
Brenda Bannan Haag; Barbara L. Grabowski
Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1994 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Sponsored by the Research and Theory Division (1994)
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the effectiveness of learner manipulation of visuals with and without organizing cues in computer-based instruction on adults' factual, conceptual, and problem-solving learning. An instructional...
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The Relationships of Personological Variables to Computer Use by Elementary School Teachers: Report of Phase One--Baseline Data
Henryk R. Marcinkiewicz; Barbara L. Grabowski
A questionnaire was administered to 167 preservice elementary education undergraduates. The questionnaire was designed to assess the relatedness of personological variables to the expected use of computers in teaching by preservice student teachers. ...
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Bookmarking/Tagging in the Web 2.0 Era: From an Individual Cognitive Tool to a Collaborative Knowledge Construction Tool for Educators
Yu-Chang Hsu; Yu-Hui Ching; Barbara Grabowski
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 909–914
Web 2.0 affordances have changed the landscape of technology use for learning, knowledge construction, and collaboration. Social bookmarking, enabled by one of the Web 2.0 technologies termed tagging, can be employed to support the organization of...
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Improving Self-Regulation, Learning Strategy Use, and Achievement with Metacognitive Feedback
Hyeon Woo Lee; Kyu Yon Lim; Barbara L. Grabowski
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 58, No. 6 (December 2010) pp. 629–648
Comprehension of science topics occurs when learners meaningfully generate relationships and conceptions about what they read. In this generation process, learners' cognitive and metacognitive regulation is one of the most critical factors...
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Online Learner Competencies: Results of a Worldwide Validation Study
Barbara Grabowski; Gila Kurtz; Insung Jung; Michael Beaudoin; Katsuaki Suzuki
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1929–1935
Several researchers argue that online learners should develop certain knowledge, experience, abilities and attitudes (or competencies) to gain the greatest benefit from their online studies and achieve high performance. The ibstpi Directors add to...
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Science Teachers' Perspectives of Web-Enhanced Problem-Based Learning Environment: A Qualitative Inquiry
Younghoon Kim; Barbara L. Grabowski; Hae-Deok Song
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2003 (2003)
This study investigated and described the perspectives of science teachers who integrated a Web-enhanced problem-based learning model into their classrooms. The study examined: (1) teachers' pedagogical beliefs; (2) the roles of teachers; (3) the...
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Generative Learning Strategies and Metacognitive Feedback to Facilitate comprehension of Complex Science Topics and Self-Regulation
Hyeon Woo Lee; Kyu Yon Lim; Barbara Grabowski
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 5–25
Comprehension of complex science topics occurs from the creation of new understanding of the information by the learner. However, learners are not very successful generating their own meaning, especially in computer based learning environments in...
Topics: Achievement, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Computers, Cognition, Instructional Design, eLearning, Instructional Materials, Learning Outcomes
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Competencies for Classroom and Online Teaching: Development and Validation
Michael Spector; James Klein; Ileana dela Teja; Roderick Sims; Barbara Grabowski
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2747–2748
The International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction is completing a three-year effort to develop and validate competencies for classroom and online teachers. The key issue discussed will be the relationship of skills and...
Topics: Classrooms, Training
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Patterns of Instructional-Design Factors Prompting Reflective Thinking in Middle-School and College Level Problem-Based Learning Environments
Hae-Deok Song; Barbara L. Grabowski; Tiffany A. Koszalka; William L. Harkness
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 34, No. 1 (January 2006) pp. 63–87
Reflective-thinking skills are important in problem-based learning environments as they help learners become deeply engaged in learning. The literature suggests several instructional-design factors (e.g., environment, teaching methods, scaffolding...
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Unobtrusive Measure of Attitude in Online Discussions: Implications for Crafting Discussion Triggers
Eugeniu Grigorescu; Chulapol Thanomsing; Barbara Grabowski; Khusro Kidvai; Scott Miller; Yu-Chang Hsu; Natalia Kapli; Kyu Yon Lim
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) p. 2675
The discussion forum constitutes an integral part of learning content and engaging students in higher order thinking in online courses, but can student attitude toward the course be revealed in those online discussions? If attitude toward the...
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Facilitating the Community of Inquiry in a Large Online Introductory Astronomy Course
Hien Nguyen; Natalia Kapli; Yu-hui Ching; Meltem Albayrak Dileo; Kyu Yon Lim; Barbara Grabowski; Scott Miller
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3034–3039
From the perspective of Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000)’s Community of Inquiry framework, it is important that online learning facilitates social presence, teaching presence and cognitive presence in order to bring about meaningful learning. ...
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Designing Engaging Web-based General Science Courses for Undergraduate Education
Yu-hui Ching; Natalia Kapli; Hien Nguyen; Meltem DILEO; Kyu Yon Lim; Hsin-I Yung; Barbara Grabowski; Scott Miller
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) p. 1524
Understanding how science is learned is of major national interest through the STEM initiatives. Astronomy learning falls in that category. Introductory Astronomy courses are usually offered as general education courses to promote an understanding...
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On-line, Blended Learning and Face-to-Face Instructor Competencies: Are they the Same?
Barbara Grabowski; J. Michael Spector; James Klein; Jan Visser; Ileana de la Teja; Barbara Sorensen; Hae-Deok Song; Rahda Ganesan; Tim Spannaus; Dennis Fields
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1591–1593
Specifying instructor competencies has become complicated in the current public, private and academic instructional and training environments made possible by the Internet. Great debates have ensued arguing the viability of a common set of...
Topics: Training, Competencies
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The Impact of Information Technology on Instructor and Learner Competencies, Part 1
J. Michael Spector; Barbara Grabowski; Barbara Sorensen; James Klein; Ileana de la Teja; Rod Sims; Dennis Fields; Jan Visser; Tim Spannaus
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2029–2032
Online technologies continue to impact teaching and training. Keeping up with competencies required in modern learning environments is a challenge for staff developers, online teachers and trainers and instructional designers. This symposium will...
Topics: Competencies, Standards, Professional Development, Teachers, Training