Student evaluations of teaching and student motivation

David Joseph Ernst

Student@evaluations of teaching and student motivation (2007) pp. 1–103

Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) instruments are used to assess teaching effectiveness at most higher education institutions. Over the past few decades, researchers have concluded that SETs are valid measures of teaching effectiveness (Greenwald,...

Rating the Quality of Open Textbooks: How Reviewer and Text Characteristics Predict Ratings

Lane Fischer; David Ernst; Stacie Mason

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 18, No. 4 (Jun 16, 2017)

Using data collected from peer reviews for Open Textbook Library titles, this paper explores questions about rating the quality of open textbooks. The five research questions addressed the relationship between textbook and reviewer characteristics...

VideoANT: Extending Video beyond Content Delivery through Annotation

Brad Hosack; Charles Miller; David Ernst

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1654–1658

In this paper we will expand the boundaries of video annotation in education by outlining the need for extended interaction in online video use, identifying the challenges faced by existing video annotation tools, and introducing VideoANT, a tool...

Analyzing Classroom Use of an Online Adventure Learning Curriculum

Aaron Doering; Eric Riedel; Cassandra Scharber; David Ernst

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 364–368

This paper analyzes the classroom use of an adventure learning site in K-12 classrooms. Surveys of 228 respondents who used the online curriculum in 300 separate courses, 21 interviews, and three classroom observations were analyzed. Who...

Topics: Integration, Curriculum, Classrooms

Motivation and Adventure Learning

Aaron Doering; Eric Riedel; David Ernst; Cassandra Scharber

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 369–376

This paper analyzes the adventure learning (AL) project, PolarHusky, which used motivational factors such as the polarhuskies (the sled dogs), the real-time delivery of far-away places, and the collaboration with educators, experts, and other...

Topics: Classrooms, Instructional Design, Students

Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

Richard Beach; Beth Brendler; Deborah Dillon; Jessie Dockter; Stacy Ernst; Amy Frederick; Lee Galda; Lori Helman; Richa Kapoor; Bic Ngo; David O'Brien; Cassie Scharber; Karen Jorgensen; Lauren Liang; Martine Braaksma; Tanja Janssen

Research in the Teaching of English Vol. 45, No. 2 (November 2010)

This article presents an annotated bibliography of "Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE). The 2010 version of the bibliography involves a major change--the bibliography is available solely as a downloadable pdf file at http://www.ncte.org...