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Rhonda Christensen
Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning, University of North Texas
Rhonda Christensen, Ph.D. is a research scientist in the Learning Technologies Department in the College of Information at the University of North Texas. She is an associate director of the Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning at UNT. She is a Co-PI for the Going Green! Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World (MSOSW) project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovative Technologies Program. She serves as the Chair of the IT Council at SITE. She has co-authored and taught a pre-service technology integration course for more than 15 years. She also teaches doctoral courses on research design and analysis. Her research interests are the impact of technology integration in education, enhancing STEM education in middle schools and mobile learning in education.
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Impact of Simulation-Based Teacher Professional Development on Student Perceptions of Teaching Practices
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2024 (Mar 25, 2024) pp. 466–474
Assessment of the impact of teacher professional development is seldom accomplished by asking their students. This study addresses whether self-reported changes in teacher practices align with their students’ perceptions of changes in teaching...
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International Collaborative Project Focusing on Technology Integration Experiences of Preservice Teachers
Petrea Redmond; Rhonda Christensen; Ottavia Trevisan,; Allison Egan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2024 (Mar 25, 2024) pp. 883–887
To prepare teachers to integrate technology effectively and follow accreditation requirements, teacher preparation programs (must prepare their teacher candidates to learn to integrate technology into their future classrooms. Researchers combined...
Topics: Research & Evaluation, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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STEM Engagement Teaching and Learning Opportunities During the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Gerald Knezek; Curby Alexander; Rhonda Christensen; Samson Lepcha; Carolyn Ng
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2024 (Mar 25, 2024) pp. 984–985
The total solar eclipse crossing the USA on April 8, 2024 will create a teaching and learning opportunity for viewers that will not be repeated until 2045. Its path of totality 60 miles wide will transit from Texas to Maine and be observable in...
Topics: Science Education, STEM Innovation
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Connecting Students to Mars and Stars using Innovative Technologies
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 29, No. 3 (July 2020) pp. 181–192
Using innovative technologies to study Mars and the sun and other stars is one way to engage students in learning more about our solar system and how it impacts us on a daily basis. The focus of this paper is to highlight several innovative...
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Measuring Changes in Educator Bias in a Simulated Learning Environment
David Collum; Rhonda Christensen; Tim Delicath; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 496–502
Data were collected from 45 preservice and inservice teachers during fall 2019 as part of a research study assessing the impact of simSchool on teachers’ level of educator bias as measured through self-awareness, the physical environment,...
Topics: Equity & Social Justice, Digital Games & Simulations
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Using Innovative Technologies to Support STEM Teaching and Learning
Rhonda Christensen; Troy Cline; Sten Odenwald; Amanda Thomas; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 865–868
A newly created STEM Innovation Special Interest Group (SIG) focuses on how innovative technologies can support STEM learning activities. The panel presentations from different perspectives related to STEM Innovation in education will be presented....
Topics: STEM Innovation
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AI in Teacher Education
Elizabeth Langran; Michael Searson; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 735–740
This session will be a conversation with participants regarding the work begun at the 2019 National Technology Leadership Summit on AI in Teacher Education. There is a recognition that AI is pervasive and will impact the field of education, but what ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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EDUsummIT Symposium SITE 2020 - Learners and learning contexts: New alignments for the digital age
Miri Shonfeld; Gerald Knezek; Louise Starkey; Rhonda Christensen; Carolyn Y Ng; Deirdre Butler; Margaret Leahy; Peter Twinning; Michael Phillips; Melda Yildiz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 981–984
The International Summit on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education (EDUsummIT) is a global community of researchers, educational practitioners, and policy makers who discuss goals and challenges for ICT in education. EDUsummIT...
Topics: Technology Policy and Practice
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Fostering New Research following the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs): Research from the JTATE Special Issue, Preparing All Teacher Educators to Support Teacher Candidates' Integration of Technology
Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Yeng L. Chang; Rhonda Christensen; Deborah R. Dillon; Marie K. Heath; Gerald Knezek; Daniel G. Krutka; Andrea H. Parrish; William A. Sadera; Amanda Thomas
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 425–432
The National Educational Technology Plan claims that teacher educators are often not equipped to do their part to prepare teacher candidates to graduate as proficient users of technology for teaching and learning (U.S. Department of Education,...
Topics: faculty development, Technology Leadership
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Preparing K-12 Schools for a Pandemic Before It Occurs
Rhonda Christensen; Curby Alexander
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 28, No. 2 (2020) pp. 261–272
While almost all K-12 schools closed for the COVID-19 pandemic with little or no preparation, one school began to prepare 12 years ago for a time such as this. In 2006, the school leadership began to consider what would happen to teaching and...
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Researching Impact: Measuring Technology Enhanced Outcomes from the NASA Space Science Education Consortium
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 39, No. 4 (2020) pp. 399–420
A conceptual framework for empirical research on the impact of NASA Space Science Education Consortium (NSSEC) activities is presented in this paper, along with a cross-referencing system between the NSF-based NSSEC evaluation framework and...
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Inspiring STEM Engagement: Space Science Education in the 21st Century
Gerald A. Knezek; Rhonda W. Christensen; Carolyn Y. Ng
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 39, No. 4 (2020) pp. 285–290
Space science education is an area of emerging importance in the 21st Century. Missions sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and programs facilitated through the NASA Space Science Education Consortium (NSSEC)...
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Invited Panel: Fostering New Research following the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs): Research from the JTATE Special Issue, Preparing All Teacher Educators to Support Teacher Candidates' Integration of Technology
Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Yeng L. Change; Rhonda Christensen; Deborah R. Dillon; Andrea Parrish
SITE 2020--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2020, No. 1 (2020)
The National Educational Technology Plan claims that teacher educators are often not equipped to do their part to prepare teacher candidates to graduate as proficient users of technology for teaching & learning (U.S. Department of Education, Office...
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Space Science Activities to Enhance Middle School Students’ Interest in STEM: Follow-up Assessment of Disposition Retention
Gerald August Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 971–980
Sixth grade students participating in a four-hour hands-on technology enriched space science camp acquired more positive dispositions toward space science (ES = .46, p
Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Learning technologies for transformational change, Augmented and Virtual Reality
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Validation of a Teacher Educator Technology Competencies Survey
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Takahisa Furuta
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2019) pp. 465–498
The Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) were created as a set of technology competencies specifically for teacher educators who prepare future teachers to teach with technology. A survey was developed based on the competencies and...
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Changes in Cognitive Knowledge Structures During an Online Educational Technology Course
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 388–395
The preparation of teachers to integrate technology is a critical component for their future use of technology in the classroom. Changes in relationships among technology related variables during a semester long online course revealed that students...
Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Teacher education and technology integration, online learning environments
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Predictors of STEM Career Interest Among Middle School Students: Implications for Educational Reform, Policy, and Innovation
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 625–630
Pre-post matched pairs data were collected from 499 males and 416 females in grades six and seven during 2015-2016 from 24 classrooms in nine US states. Fourteen cognitive and non-cognitive indicators of content knowledge, attitudes toward climate...
Topics: Teacher education and technology integration, Learning technologies for transformational change, Environmental education
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Preliminary Analysis of an Instrument to Assess Computational Thinking Skills in Japanese Junior High Students
Takahisa Furuta; Kohei Otomo; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 326–330
As an attempt to build a standardized measurement scale for Computational Thinking (CT) skills and abilities, we created and tested a set of 19 small paper-and-pencil test problems for assessing students’ CT abilities, where each problem...
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Core Themes in the Second International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education: A Bird’s Eye View
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Jo Tondeur; Dirk Ifenthaler; Birgit Eickelmann
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 493–498
The Second International Handbook of Information Technology for Primary and Secondary Education (Voogt, Knezek, Christensen & Lai, 2018) synthesizes research on information technology in primary and secondary education from an international...
Topics: Education reform with technology
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Creating Technology Enriched Activities to Enhance Middle School Students’ Interest in STEM
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Frederick Hobbs; Jenna Kelley; Samson Den Lepcha; Destiny Dong; Samuel Liu; Karen Wang; Huram-Abi Yotchoum Nzia; Daniel Kelley
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1344–1352
Sixth grade students participating in a four-hour hands-on technology enriched space science camp acquired more positive dispositions toward space science. Topics related to the Parker Solar Probe mission, the Apollo 11 moon mission and Mars...
Topics: Participatory learning and media, Learning technologies for transformational change, Mobile teaching and learning technologies
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Piloting Innovative Learning Experiences: Outcomes of Digital Fabrication Activities across Five Classrooms
Curby Alexander; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Tandra Tyler-Wood
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 38, No. 2 (April 2019) pp. 115–152
Declining academic achievement across U.S. schools, particularly in mathematics and science, has prompted several initiatives to increase the quality of teaching in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The National Science...
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A Preliminary Analysis of the Teacher Educator Technology Competency Survey
Gerald August Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1174–1180
The Teacher Educator Technology Survey v1.0 is a 12-item Likert-type instrument developed during 2018 based on the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs). This instrument was administered to a convenience sample of 83 participants at the...
Topics: faculty development, Research & Evaluation
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Bridging the Gap between Computational Thinking and the Integration of ICT into Classroom Teaching and Learning: A Barrier to be Addressed
Takahisa Furuta; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1160–1162
In this paper, we present a study of the relations between different types of teachers’ anxieties and concerns toward teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as an integrated part of curriculum and integration of ICT into classroom teaching and...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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SimSchool: SPARCing New Grounds in Research on Simulated Classrooms
David Collum; Rhonda Christensen; Tim Delicath; Vickie Johnston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 733–739
New advances in a teacher simulation (simSchool 2.0) allow teacher educators to teach a variety of topics in a simulated teaching environment offering the opportunity to experience a range of learners with different needs. Research findings from new ...
Topics: Games & Simulations, Research & Evaluation, Equity & Social Justice
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Using Innovative Technologies to Increase Middle School Students’ Interest in Space Science
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Troy Cline; Carolyn Ng
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1002–1007
Innovative technologies can spark middle school interest in STEM careers. This paper is specifically focused on student interest in space science with the intention it will lead to more students choosing careers in this area. NASA’s STEM Innovation...
Topics: Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Cross-cutting Themes from the Second International Handbook of Information Technology in Education: Implications for Information Technology in Teacher Education
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Kwok-Wing Lai
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 918–920
The recently published Second International Handbook of Information Technology for Primary and Secondary education features contributions from the past decade concerning research on information technology in education from an international...
Topics: International Education
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Learner Attributes and Technology-Enriched Environments Associated with Positive Climate Change Attitudes and Energy and Environmental Science Knowledge in Middle School Students
Gerald August Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1736–1743
Pre-post data from 764 treatment and 553 comparison middle school students from nine US states were analyzed to examine STEM-related attitudes and dispositions aligning with climate change beliefs and intentions, and acquisition of energy and...
Topics: Learner-centered, and self-directed learning, Environmental education, Education for sustainable development
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Outcomes from Technology Enhanced Informal Learning Activities to Increase Middle School Students’ Interest in STEM
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Samson den Lepcha; Destiny Dong; Samuel Liu; Karen Wang; Andrew Wu; Huram-Abi Yotchoum Nzia
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1368–1377
Seventh grade students participating in a four-hour hands-on technology enriched space science camp showed significant gains in their understanding of topics related to space science topics. Topics related to Apollo moon missions and the Parker...
Topics: Authentic, contextualized, and real-world learning, Virtual reality learning environments, Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning
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Factors affecting pre- and in-service use of technology in teaching: Implications for research and practice – Part 1
Daan Farjon; Anneke Smits; Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Dominik Petko; Doreen Prasse; Jo Tondeur; Ronny Scherer; Fazilat Siddiq; Teemu Valtonen; Erkko Sointu; Johan van Braak
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 604–607
This symposium aims to contribute to a better understanding of the factors that contribute to or impede pre- and in-service teachers to use technology in their teaching. Three models are central and discussed in the contributions to the symposium....
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Research-Based Implications for Policy and Practice: Outcomes from EduSummIT 2017 – The Fifth International Summit on Information Technology in Education – Part 1
Gerald August Knezek; Joke Voogt; Rhonda Christensen; Koos Eichhorn; Henk Sligte; Rowland Baker; Dominik Petko; Miri Shonfeld; Anneke Smits; Dirk Ifenthaler; Mary Webb; Jo Tondeur; Sarah Howard
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 783–788
Through five EDUsummITs spanning 2009 – 2017, approximately 100 researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across the globe have gathered to discuss ways to fast track what researchers know about information technology in education, into...
Topics: Global learning partnerships and innovations, Global studies and education, Global learning communities
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Capitalizing on Informal Learning Opportunities to Enhance Formal Learning in Classroom Environments
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1920–1926
Three middle school sites are compared to assess the measured impact of informal space science education activities on science content knowledge, enthusiasm for an event such as a total solar eclipse, and longer-term dispositions toward space...
Topics: Science Education, Research & Evaluation
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Assessing Motivations for Learning Informatics and Possible Influences of Parents’ Interests in Technology among Japanese Junior High Students
Takahisa Furuta; Megumi Fujiki; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 927–931
Three-hundred twenty-six (326) Japanese students from three junior high schools, aged 14 to 15 years old, completed a 80-item Likert-style questionnaire that included portions of the previously-validated Computer Attitude Questionnaire and study...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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Part 1: Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age – Implications for Teacher Education
Joke Voogt; Kwok Wing Lai; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Alona Forkosh Baruch; Vadim Grinshkun; Sergey Grigoryev; Miri Shonfeld; Anneke Smits; Danah Henrikson; Michael Henderson; Alexander Uvarov; Mike Philips; Mary Webb; Dale Niederhauser; Punya Mishra; Margaret Leahy; Deirdre Butler; Allard Strijker
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1075–1079
The International Summit on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education (EDUsummIT) met in Borovets, Bulgaria in September 2017 This community of 80 leading scholars, policy makers and educators discussed the theme Rethinking...
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Supporting Learning Leaders for the Effective Integration of Technology into Schools
Rhonda Christensen; Koos Eichhorn; Sarah Prestridge; Dominik Petko; Henk Sligte; Rowland Baker; Ghaida Alayyar; Gerald Knezek
Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 23, No. 3 (2018) pp. 457–472
Learning leaders have important roles in facilitating and supporting the effective and innovative integration of technology in schools. Many leaders who are charged with the task of technology integration have not received professional development...
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Editorial: Integrated STEM and Current Directions in the STEM Community
Andrea C. Burrows; Joe Garofalo; Steven Barbato; Rhonda Christensen; Michael Grant; - Kinshuk; Jennifer Parrish; Christine Thomas; Tandra Tyler-Wood
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2017) pp. 478–482
uring this National Technology Leadership Summit (NTLS; see ntls.info), concurrent “strand” deliberations took place over 2 days. One of those strands was entitled American Innovations in the Content Areas: STEM, and the discussion within that...
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Outcomes from Technology Enhanced Informal Learning Activities: Total Solar Eclipse
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Doug Darby; Samson Den Lepcha; Bihan Jiang; Anna Kuo; Andrew Wu
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 1064–1071
Sixth grade students participating in a four-hour hands-on technology enriched space science camp showed significant gains in their understanding of topics related to heliophysics and the solar eclipse. The average number of items correct increased ...
Topics: interactive learning environments, Evaluation of Impact, SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching
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Perceptions of Early, Mid or Late Career Teachers Regarding Technology Integration, Technology Proficiency and Access to Tools and Resources
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 946–953
This study is based on teacher classifications according to the number of years spent teaching. Teachers are classified as Early, Mid and Late Career. Differences among categories of teachers are examined with regard to technology proficiency,...
Topics: Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Changes in Teacher Dispositions Among Participants in Hands-on Teaching of a STEM Curriculum
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2067–2073
Going Green! Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World (MSOSW) focuses on students using energy monitoring equipment to assess the amount of standby power consumed by their home entertainment devices and appliances when not performing any useful...
Topics: Science Education, Research & Evaluation
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Effect of a Makerspace Training Series on Elementary and Middle School Educator Confidence Levels Toward Integrating Technology
Jennifer Miller; Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1015–1020
Makerspaces provide a learning environment that may be useful to improving teacher confidence levels toward integrating technology into the classroom. The Technology Proficiency Self-Assessment for 21st Century Learning (TPSA C-21) was utilized to...
Topics: Research & Evaluation, Digital Fabrication, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)
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Examining associations between perceptions of junior high friends and learning computer programming with implications for teacher preparation
Takahisa Furuta; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 960–964
Two hundred (200) Japanese students from two junior high schools, aged 14 to 15 years old, completed a 62-item Likert-style questionnaire that included portions of the previously-validated Computer Attitude Questionnaire and also non-cognitive and...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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Eclipse 2017: Resources for Teachers to Support Space Science Engagement
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Troy Cline; Carolyn Ng
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2133–2137
On August 21, 2017 a total solar eclipse will traverse the continental US beginning at Portland, Oregon and passing through Nebraska to Charleston, South Carolina. Persons outside around noon that day at locations as far South as Dallas will...
Topics: Science Education, Workforce Education, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)
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Charting New Directions in Educational Research
David Gibson; Gerald Knezek; Dirk Ifenthaler; Joke Voogt; Rhonda Christensen; Kim Schildkamp
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 973–979
This panel will review key ideas that may chart a new direction for educational research. The ideas will be selected from a group of papers written in the last five years that are concerned with the role of data analytics in the modern era of big...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation
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The International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education: Part 1
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Kwok Wing Lai; Keryn Pratt; Peter Albion; Jo Tondeur; Mary Webb; Dirk Ifenthaler; David C. Gibson; Paul Resta; Thérèse Laferrière; David Slykhuis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1078–1081
This symposium aims to introduce to the SITE community the second edition of the International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education to be published in 2018. The purpose of the Handbook is to synthesize research and...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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The International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education: Part 2
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Kwok Wing Lai; Keryn Pratt; Peter Albion; Jo Tondeur; Mary Webb; Dirk Ifenthaler; David C. Gibson; Paul Resta; Thérèse Laferrière; David Slykhuis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1082–1085
This symposium aims to introduce to the SITE community the second edition of the International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education to be published in 2018. The purpose of the Handbook is to synthesize research and...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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Contrasts in Openness toward Mobile Learning in the Classroom: A Study of Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) 2017 (2017)
In a study involving 1414 elementary, middle school, and high school teachers from a large school district in the southwestern USA, the authors examine the similarities and differences among teachers at the three levels of K-12 education common in...
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Blending Formal and Informal Learning Through an Online Immersive Game Environment: Contrasts in Interactions by Middle School Boys and Girls
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 535–540
Analysis of data gathered from a game-based learning environment produced for an NSF-funded STEM education project has demonstrated that middle school teachers can increase time on task and enhance interest in richer learning of classroom content...
Topics: Games & Simulations
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Teacher Indicators for Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning: Expanding Outcomes from EDUSummIT 2015
Rhonda Christensen; Dale Niederhauser; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1028–1035
Defining indicators for technology enhanced learning and teaching was a goal of one of the nine working groups at EDUSummIT 2015 held in Bangkok, Thailand. The Indicators of Quality Technology-enhanced Teaching and Learning working group created a...
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A Revised Replication Study Typology and A Call for Participation: Replication Studies involving Technology and Teacher Education
Natalie Milman; Rhonda Christensen; J. Michael Spector; Robert Branch; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Charles Hodges; Arlene Borthwick; Melanie Shoffner; Gerald Knezek; David Rutledge; Meghan Manfra
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1115–1119
In this session panelists will define what replication studies are, explain why they are needed, and invite researchers to conduct multi-site replication studies of technology and teacher education using common methods and measures. Additionally,...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All: The EDUsummIT 2015 Call to Action
Joke Voogt; Kwok Wing Lai; Gerald Knezek; Peter Albion; Jo Tondeur; Alona Forkosh-Baruch; Miri Schönfield; Thérèse Laferrière; J. Michael Spector; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Christensen; Paul Resta; Mike Searson; Charoula Angeli
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 797–799
EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT took place September 14-15, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO...
Topics: Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation, International Education
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Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All: The EDUsummIT 2015 Call to Action
Joke Voogt; Kwok Wing Lai; Gerald Knezek; Peter Albion; Jo Tondeur; Alona Forkosh-Baruch; Miri Schönfield; Thérèse Laferrière; J. Michael Spector; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Christensen; Paul Resta; Mike Searson; Charoula Angeli
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1246–1248
EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT took place September 14-15, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO...
Topics: Technology Leadership, Research & Evaluation, International Education