Computers & Education
July 2014 Volume 76, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 21
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Structural model of team-based learning using Web 2.0 collaborative software
Hwee-Joo Kam, Accounting/Finance/Information Systems Department, United States; Pairin Katerattanakul, Business Information Systems Department, United States
This study examines the phenomena occurring among team members during their participation in team-based learning using Web 2.0 collaborative software. Based on the Grounded Theory approach, this... More
pp. 1-12
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Iterative augmentation of a medical training simulator: Effects of affective metacognitive scaffolding
Gudrun Wesiak & Christina M. Steiner, Knowledge Technologies Institute, Austria; Adam Moore, KDEG, Ireland; Declan Dagger & Gordon Power, EmpowerTheUser Ltd., Ireland; Marcel Berthold & Dietrich Albert, Knowledge Technologies Institute, Austria; Owen Conlan, KDEG, Ireland
Experiential training simulators are gaining increasing popularity for job-related training due to their potential to engage and motivate adult learners. They are designed to provide learning... More
pp. 13-29
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A system for formative assessment and monitoring of students' progress
Fátima Rodrigues & Paulo Oliveira
Assessment plays a central role in any educational process as a way of evaluating the students' knowledge on the concepts associated with learning objectives. The assessment of free-text answers is... More
pp. 30-41
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Student academic performance stochastic simulator based on the Monte Carlo method
Eduardo Caro, Camino González & José Manuel Mira
In this paper, a computer-based tool is developed to analyze student performance along a given curriculum. The proposed software makes use of historical data to compute passing/failing... More
pp. 42-54
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Measuring critical components of digital literacy and their relationships with learning
Jeffrey Alan Greene, Seung B. Yu & Dana Z. Copeland
The growing prominence of the Internet, and other digital environments, as educational tools requires research regarding learners' digital literacy. We argue that two critical aspects of digital... More
pp. 55-69
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Why they choose and how it goes: Comparing special education and general education cyber student perceptions
Dennis Beck, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, United States; Anna Egalite & Robert Maranto, Department of Educational Reform, United States
While critics offer concerns that cyber charter schools under-enroll special education students, such schools may offer advantages for these students, and some cyber schools have identified this... More
pp. 70-79
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A prompt-based annotation approach to conducting mobile learning activities for architecture design courses
Han-Yu Sung, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Taiwan; Gwo-Jen Hwang & Shih-Yu Liu, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, Taiwan; I-hsu Chiu, Department of Architecture, Taiwan
In this study, a prompt-based annotation approach is proposed for developing mobile learning systems for architecture design courses. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, an... More
pp. 80-90
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The relationship between technology leadership strategies and effectiveness of school administration: An empirical study
Chih-Hsiang Weng & Yao Tang
This research has four main themes: (1) the level of school technology leadership used by administrators in elementary schools; (2) the degree to which administrators are aware of the effectiveness... More
pp. 91-107
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Group awareness support and argumentation scripts for individual preparation of arguments in Facebook
Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Thomas Puhl, Raluca Judele & Armin Weinberger
This study investigates how group awareness support and argumentation scripts influence learning in social networking sites like Facebook, which may be conducive to informal learning, but often... More
pp. 108-118
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The added value of a gaming context and intelligent adaptation for a mobile learning application for vocabulary learning
Jacobijn Sandberg & Marinus Maris, University of Amsterdam; Pepijn Hoogendoorn, Earlybird
Two groups participated in a study on the added value of a gaming context and intelligent adaptation for a mobile learning application. The control group worked at home for a fortnight with the... More
pp. 119-130
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Motivating factors in online language teacher education in southern Argentina
Darío Luis Banegas, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; Graciela I. Manzur Busleimán, IFDC Lenguas Vivas, Argentina
Online teacher education is of growing interest and so is the study of motivation as a key factor in technology-mediated learning environments. This study is based on a pre-service language teacher... More
pp. 131-142
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Epistemic evaluation and comprehension of web-source information on controversial science-related topics: Effects of a short-term instructional intervention
Lucia Mason, Andrea Anahi Junyent & Maria Caterina Tornatora
This study examines the effectiveness of a short-term instructional intervention in the school context. The aim was to provide students with essential declarative knowledge on what to consider when... More
pp. 143-157
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Effects of loneliness and differential usage of Facebook on college adjustment of first-year students
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Northwestern University, United States; Robert LaRose, Michigan State University, United States
The popularity of social network sites (SNSs) among college students has stimulated scholarship examining the relationship between SNS use and college adjustment. The present research furthers our ... More
pp. 158-167
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Direct measures of digital information processing and communication skills in primary education: Using item response theory for the development and validation of an ICT competence scale
Koen Aesaert, Department of Educational Studies, Belgium; Daniël van Nijlen, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Belgium; Ruben Vanderlinde & Johan van Braak, Department of Educational Studies, Belgium
In the past decade, several studies have measured ICT competences from the perspective of ICT self-efficacy. Such indirect measurements tend to have validity problems, as they depend on the pupils'... More
pp. 168-181
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It's not only what I think but what they think! The moderating effect of social norms
Sukanlaya Sawang, QUT Business School, Australia; Yuan Sun, School of Business Administration and Zheshang Research Center, China; Siti Aisyah Salim, Information Systems School, Australia
The current research extends our knowledge of the main effects of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived control over the individual's technology adoption. We propose a critical buffering role of... More
pp. 182-189
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Teachers' pedagogical change mechanism – Pattern of structural relations between teachers' pedagogical characteristics and teachers' perceptions of transactional distance (TTD) in different teaching environments
Niva Wengrowicz
In this study we examined how the variables: teaching autonomy, teaching goals teaching style and teachers' perceptions of transactional distance (TTD) work together within the pedagogical decision... More
pp. 190-198
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The effects of verbally redundant information on student learning: An instance of reverse redundancy
Fatih Ari, Office of Institutional Planning and Assessment, United States; Raymond Flores, Fethi A. Inan, Jongpil Cheon, Steven M. Crooks, Dmitrii Paniukov & Murat Kurucay, Texas Tech University, United States
This study aimed to examine the effects of redundant on-screen text on student learning outcomes (i.e. comprehension, matching, spatial labeling, and diagram reconstruction) when learning from... More
pp. 199-204
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Who are interested in online science simulations? Tracking a trend of digital divide in Internet use
Meilan Zhang
Although the Internet has become a major source for disseminating educational resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), little is known about the extent to which these... More
pp. 205-214
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Alignment of game design features and state mathematics standards: Do results reflect intentions?
Katerina Schenke, Teomara Rutherford & George Farkas
This paper describes the results of a randomized control trial of a standards-based mathematics software on elementary school students' (3rd–5th graders; More
pp. 215-224
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The effects of geography lessons with geospatial technologies on the development of high school students' relational thinking
Tim T. Favier & Joop A. van der Schee
Geospatial technologies offer access to geospatial information via digital representations, such as digital maps, and tools for interaction with those representations. The question is whether... More
pp. 225-236
