Relationship of Educator Professional Development for Interactive Online Simulations to Eighth Grade Student Achievement in Math and Science

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Alice Owen; Sam Farsaii; Rebekah McPherson; Sherri Brogdon; Jaeyeob Jung

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3276–3281

Findings based on school-as-a-unit-of-analysis and classroom-as-a-unit-of-analysis data from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) for 8th Grade Science indicate that training in Gizmo use and in other hands-on technology based...