Enhancing TPACK with Assistive Technology: Promoting Inclusive Practices in Pre-service Teacher Education

Matthew Marino; Pauline Sameshima; Constance Beecher

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 2 (June 2009) pp. 186–207

As the global community continues the transition from an industrialized factory model to an information and now participatory networked-based society, educational technology will play a pivotal role in preparing students for their futures. Many...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Students, Inclusive Education, Learning Disabilities, Accessibility, Integration, Educational Technology, Curriculum, Preservice Teacher Education

Conceptualizing RTI in 21st-Century Secondary Science Classrooms: Video Games' Potential to Provide Tiered Support and Progress Monitoring for Students with Learning Disabilities

Matthew T. Marino; Constance C. Beecher

Learning Disability Quarterly Vol. 33, No. 4 (2010) pp. 299–311

Secondary schools across the United States are adopting response to intervention (RTI) as a means to identify students with learning disabilities (LD) and provide tiered instructional interventions that benefit all students. The majority of current...

Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Using Video Games to Enhance Science Instruction

Matthew T. Marino; Maya Israel; Constance C. Beecher; James D. Basham

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 22, No. 5 (October 2013) pp. 667–680

Science education video game research points toward promising, but inconclusive results in both student learning outcomes and attitudes. However, student-level variables other than gender have been largely absent from this research. This study...

Language of Children with Disabilities to Peers at Play: Impact of Ecology

Paulette E. Mills; Constance C. Beecher; Philip S. Dale; Kevin N. Cole; Joseph R. Jenkins

Journal of Early Intervention Vol. 36, No. 2 (June 2014) pp. 111–130

Play is a significant aspect of preschool curricula. We report two studies that examine the effects of play-related variables: length of free play, type of language instructional approach, degree of structure of free play, and amount of teacher...

An Analysis of Factors that Affect Struggling Readers' Achievement during a Technology-Enhanced STEM Astronomy Curriculum

Matthew T. Marino; Anne C. Black; Michael T. Hayes; Constance C. Beecher

Journal of Special Education Technology Vol. 25, No. 3 (2010) pp. 35–47

This article reports the findings of a study examining independent variables that contributed to the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) achievement of students with reading difficulties who participated in a technology-enhanced ...

An Analysis of Factors that Affect Struggling Readers’ Achievement During a Technologyenhanced STEM Astronomy Curriculum

Matthew T. Marino; Anne C. Black; Michael T. Hayes and Constance C. Beecher

Journal of Special Education Technology Vol. 25, No. 3 (2010)

This article reports the findings of a study examining independent variables that contributed to the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) achievement of students with reading difficulties who participated in a technology-enhanced ...

Using Technology to Support STEM Reading

Matthew T. Marino; Anne C. Black; Michael T. Hayes and Constance C. Beecher; Matthew T. Marino; Anne C. Black; Michael T. Hayes and Constance C. Beecher; Matthew T. Marino; Anne C. Black; Michael T. Hayes and Constance C. Beecher; Matthew H. Schneps; Jamie K. O'Keeffe; Amanda Heffner-Wong; Gerhard Sonnert

Journal of Special Education Technology Vol. 25, No. 3 (2010) pp. 21–33

Tasks in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are unusually varied because they target phenomena occurring in diverse domains and call upon a wide range of abilities to perform them. The fact that STEM tasks cover such a broad...