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A Computer-Based Paradigm for Developmental Research and Instruction
Roman Taraban
Journal of Developmental Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (1996) pp. 12–14
Argues that there is a need for more research on the effectiveness of instructional methods in developmental education, but acknowledges that standard experimental procedures are not appropriate for developmental classrooms. Describes Simulation...
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Special Feature: Technology that Moves Learners in the Right Direction
Roman Taraban; Thomas Brothen
Journal of Developmental Education Vol. 22, No. 3 (1999) pp. 33–34
Responds to Anne G. Koehler's "A New Paradigm for Teaching with Technology," which appeared in the Journal of Developmental Education (vol.22, issue 1, Fall 1998). States that the main objective in developmental education is for students to learn,...
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Gender Processing in Native and Nonnative Russian Speakers
Roman Taraban; Vera Kempe
Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 20, No. 1 (1999) pp. 119–48
Adult native speakers (L1) of Russian and advanced nonnative second-language (L2) speakers read Russian sentences on a computer and were asked to choose one of two inflected past-tense verbs in a forced-choice task. Verbs either matched or...
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Computer-Based Comprehension Research in a Content Area
Roman Taraban; Kimberly Rynearson
Journal of Developmental Education Vol. 21, No. 3 (1998) pp. 10–12
This study reports the use of technology in understanding reading and learning abilities (comprehension) of undergraduates in a psychology course. The study's favorable results provide support for further implementations and tests of self-paced...
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Live Specimens More Effective than World Wide Web for Learning Plant Material
Roman Taraban; Cynthia McKenney; Ellen Peffley; Ashley Applegarth
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education Vol. 33 (2004) pp. 106–110
The World Wide Web and other computer-based media are new teaching resources for plant identification. The purpose of the experiments reported here was to test whether learning plant identification for woody and herbaceous plant material over the...
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Learning State An XML based course editor for online instruction
Terence Ahern; David Dean; Roman Taraban; Ben Walton
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 857–858
Learning State is a lesson editor that creates a control file in XML so that a designer can not only sequence lesson content but also determine how a student should engage the content. Further because of its inherent structure of XML, lesson...