QIICC Analysis: Involving Students in Assessment Using Technology

Dwight Allen; Patrick O'Shea

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 135–136

This research was performed to determine the efficacy of the QIICC analysis protocol, which is designed to elicit student feedback on the quality of items found on a quiz or test. By doing so, it allows the instructional staff to better analyze the...

Topics: Students, Change, Assessment, Instructional Design

Team Research in Education

Dwight W. Allen

Educational Technology Vol. 9, No. 4 (1969) pp. 17–21

QIICC - Using Technology to Involve Students In Assessment

Simon Richmon; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) p. 1508

The QIICC Analysis protocol is designed to elicit student feedback on the quality of items found on a quiz or test. By doing so, it allows the instructional staff to better analyze the effectiveness of the individual elements that are included in...

Topics: Students, Instructional Design, Assessment

QIICC - Student Empowerment through Distance Assessment

Simon Richmond; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 273–274

The objective for this session is to show participants a new and innovative way of involving students in the assessment process. Participants will learn how to incorporate the QIICC Analysis protocol into everyday assessment strategies. The QIICC...

Topics: Students, Learning Objects, Learning Outcomes, Assessment, Instructional Design

Toward a Redefinition of Teacher Education

Dwight W. Allen; Robert A. Mackin

Educational Technology Vol. 10, No. 2 (1970) pp. 65–70

The dean of the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts and his assistant "suggest changes in the preservice education of teachers needed to prepare teachers to help change their roles, and thus break the interlock between training...

Education and Technology: The Changing Basics

Dwight W. Allen; Lawrence N. McCullough

Educational Technology Vol. 20, No. 1 (January 1980) pp. 47–53

Notes the changing role of technology in education and society and explores the increased use of educational technology with its sophisticated simplicity, new skills development, and the humanizing, freeing effect of technology mastery. (RAO)

ACTT Now Collaboration - Matching Pre-service and Inservice Teachers Through Technology

Patrick O'Shea; Jennifer Kidd; Dwight Allen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1629–1630

ACTT Now, a partnership between Old Dominion University (ODU) and Brunswick County Public Schools (BCPS) includes a program that partners ODU students with BCPS teachers. With more than 100 miles between partners, distance tools foster all...

Topics: Schools, Students, Teachers

Musical Improvisation: A Model for Infusing New Technologies Into the Design of Instruction

Douglas Allen; Dwight Allen; Gwendolyn Watson; Carl Hoagland

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 31–32

In an age of rapid change and almost unlimited opportunity for continuous technological innovation in schools, traditional communication and decision-making systems characterized by structure and linear process must be made more responsive. Lessons ...

Topics: Instructional Design, Schools, Educational Technology

Student-authored Wikibooks: Textbooks of the Future?

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Peter Baker; Jamie Kaufman; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2644–2647

Using the Wikibooks platform, the students of the Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education (ECI 301) course at Old Dominion University have written their own textbook. Initial research has produced promising results. Students who...

Student-Authored Textbooks: The Future or Futile?

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen; Roy Tamashiro

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3274–3279

Panelists will discuss the development and use of student-authored textbooks. Discussion will follow exploring process and product, considering context, content, and logistics. Participants will be encouraged to play the role of skeptics,...

Studying the Credibility of a Student-Authored Textbook: Is it worth the effort for the results?

Patrick O'Shea; Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Jaime Kauffman; Dwight Allen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3008–3009

This session will describe the efforts to implement a student-authored textbook within an Educational foundations course, and the subsequent efforts to evaluate the credibility of the textbook that was created. Focus will be given to the design of...

Topics: Evaluation

Issues Confronted while Designing a Student-Developed Online Textbook

Patrick O'Shea; Shanan Chappell; Dwight Allen; Peter Baker

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2074–2079

This paper discusses the process that was undertaken to design and implement a student-developed online textbook using Wikibooks technology. This process required a great deal of preparation, planning, and organization in the six months before...

WiTTIE (Wiki Templates Transforming Instructional Environments)

Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Cady Pinell; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 121–125

Wiki software is designed to facilitate collaborative writing; however the inherent features of wikis do not include tools for managing the logistical tasks of organizing a large group of students to write a wiki textbook. With funding from a...

Building a Strong and Successful Online Learning Environment through Instructor Initiated Support and Affective Communication with Students

Dwight Allen; Han Liu; Ruiling Lu; Zhongtang Ren

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 328–335

This paper is a report of a qualitative study conducted on a college level online class. Online students often have a feeling of isolation in the learning process. Timely support and affective communication are crucial for online students. Delayed...

Topics: Communication, Students

Moving Beyond Make-Believe: On-line Lesson Plan Collaborations

Cathy Cheely; Lee Vartanian; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1266–1267

Brunswick County Public Schools (Virginia) has partnered with Old Dominion University on a collaboration project aimed at bridging the gap between pre-service university methods courses and authentic classroom environments. Instead of merely writing ...

Topics: Communication, Collaboration, Schools

Effects of Anonymous e-Peer Feedback vs. Identifiable Member e-Peer Feedback on College Student Writing Performance

Lu Ruiling; Han Liu; Zhongtang Ren; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 676–680

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of anonymous e-peer feedback (peer feedback in electronic format) on college students' writing performance in comparison with identifiable member e-peer feedback with the assumption that anonymity...

Topics: Students

Effects of Wiki-Textbook Writing on College Students' Epistemological Beliefs

Zhongtang Ren; Xiaochao Dang; Shaoan Zhang; Peter Baker; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 3140–3146

Traditionally, teachers and traditional textbooks written by experts were epistemologically perceived as the major sources from which students were to acquire knowledge in school or on campus. The appearance and subsequent growth of Web technology...

In Our World: Portraits of Communities Across the Globe (A K-16 International Wiki Project)

Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Patrick O'Shea; Cady Pinell; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2479–2482

In Our World: Portraits of Communities across the Globe is an international wiki text written by k-16 students. Participating classes contribute a chapter describing their community; students read, review and evaluate each other’s work. The...

A Technological Reinvention of the Textbook: A Wikibooks Project

Patrick M. O'Shea; James C. Onderdonk; Douglas Allen; Dwight W. Allen

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 27, No. 3 (2011) pp. 109–114

Education traditionally has been defined as a one-way relationship between teacher and learner. However, new technologies are dramatically changing that relationship in a multitude of ways. In this article, the authors describe some of these changes ...

A Student-written WikiText for a Foundations Course in Education

Patrick O'Shea; Daniel Curry-Corcoran; Peter Baker; Dwight Allen; Douglas Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2246–2253

This paper describes the design and implementation of a student developed online textbook for a educational foundations course. Data analysis is included to indicate current student perceptions of the process and how those perceptions are different ...

ACTT Now to Link Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education: A PT3 Panel

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen; Cathy Cheely; Daniel Curry-Corcoran

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1652–1660

Abstract: Old Dominion University and Brunswick County Public School's PT3 partnership ACTT Now (Aligning Certification with Technology Training) provides technology training for pre-service and in-service teachers, university faculty, and the...

Topics: Teachers, Training, Schools

An Evaluation of Web 2.0 Pedagogy: Student-authored Wikibook vs Traditional Textbook

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Jamie Kaufman; Peter Baker; Tiffany Hall; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 917–919

Rather than using a traditional text, students in an educational foundations course write their own text using Wikibooks. The notion of student-generated textbooks calls into question many issues of credibility, traditional definitions of expertise, ...

Wikitextbooks: Pedagogical Tool for Student Empowerment

Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Jamie Kaufman; Tiffany Hall; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 920–922

Instructors chose course textbooks while publishers largely control textbook content and the often exorbitant prices paid for these texts. Students, meanwhile, have little say in this process. Recent research suggests wikitextbooks could shift the...