Scientific Versus Humanistic Approaches to Reading

Mark E. Thompson

The scientific approach with humans is usually subject to many human and environmental variables that are difficult to control. Reading behavior and reading disability are two of the most researched topics in education and psychology, yet reading...

Beyond the Computer: Reading as a Process of Intellectual Development

Mark E. Thompson

With more than 100,000 computers in public schools across the United States, the impact of computer assisted instruction (CAI) on students' reading behavior needs to be evaluated. In reading laboratories, CAI has been found to provide an efficient...

Varied Approaches to Grading and Assignment Deadlines: Two Veteran Instructors Share Their Divergent Methods

Mark Reid; Elton Stetson; Josh Thompson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1865–1866

Teachers grapple with difficult decisions related to grading in myriad ways. In this session, two college professors of teacher education share how they live out their grading choices in terms of expectations, deadlines, and penalties. These two...

Topics: Assessment and E-Folios, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Early Childhood Education

ComPAIR: A New Online Tool Using Adaptive Comparative Judgement to Support Learning with Peer Feedback

Tiffany Potter; Letitia Englund; James Charbonneau; Mark Thompson MacLean; Jonathan Newell; Ido Roll

Teaching & Learning Inquiry Vol. 5, No. 2 (2017) pp. 89–113

Peer feedback is a useful strategy in teaching and learning, but its effectiveness particularly in introductory courses can be limited by the relative newness of students to both the body of knowledge upon which they are being asked to provide...

Online Peer Review: Learning Science as It's Practiced

Nancy M. Trautmann; William S. Carlsen; Charles J. Eick; Francis E. Gardner; Lisa Kenyon; Hedy Moscovici; John C. Moore; Mark Thompson; Sandra West

Journal of College Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 7 (2003) pp. 443–47

Describes a cooperative project that integrates the internet into the peer-review process to enhance student understanding of the nature of science through engagement in socially authentic scientific research and the double-blinded peer review...