Long-term effects of Individual Development Accounts on postsecondary education: Follow-up evidence from a randomized experiment

Michal Grinstein-Weiss; Michael Sherraden; William G. Gale; William M. Rohe; Mark Schreiner; Clinton Key

Economics of Education Review Vol. 33, No. 1 (April 2013) pp. 58–68

This paper presents evidence from a randomized field experiment testing the impact of a 3-year matched savings program on educational outcomes 10 years after the start of the experiment. We examine the effect of an Individual Development Account ...

Language: English

Using Web 2.0 Interactive Rich-media Technologies in Mathematics Teacher Development

Chieu Vu Minh; Michael Weiss; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3619–3624

This roundtable session aims at showing how to exploit interactive rich-media technologies, especially technologies for watching and annotating animated instructional stories, to support teacher learning. We consider that watching and annotating...

Speech-based Learning with Amazon Alexa

Michael Weiss; Markus Ebner; Martin Ebner

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2021 (Jul 06, 2021) pp. 156–163

Almost every child and adult today have access to the Internet and different technologies like smartphones, tablets and co. Scientists recognized this very quickly and started to create a whole new way of learning. Therefore, learning applications...

Topics: Mobile teaching and learning technologies

ThEMaT’s Virtual Settings: Practicing Math Teaching with Web-based Interactive Rich-Media Technologies

Chieu Vu Minh; Michael Weiss; Patricio Herbst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4587–4592

How to help teachers learn productively from each other and practice teaching in authentic contexts has been among critical problems in teacher learning. Many have offered online communities and video technologies for teachers to develop their...

Effect of an Animated Classroom Story Embedded in Online Discussion on Helping Mathematics Teachers Learn to Notice

Vu Minh Chieu; Patricio Herbst; Michael Weiss

Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 20, No. 4 (2011) pp. 589–624

Rich-media representations of teaching using animated cartoons can be effective at stimulating teachers' discussion about practice and hence help them learn productively from one another about their profession. Our research aims to design web-based...