The World Wide Web, Computers and Teaching Literature

Eric Johnson

Educational Media International Vol. 35, No. 3 (1998) pp. 203–15

Discusses computer programs for textual research in literature and describes a graduate course on computing for the humanities that was developed at Dakota State University that used the World Wide Web and included students from throughout the world....

Shocking: A study of a computer-assisted instruction program in teaching fundamental facts about electricity

Eric Johnson

(2007) pp. 1–49

This study investigated whether computer-assisted instruction (CAI) effectively instructed students on the basic principles of electricity. One hundred twenty-one third grade students from a Los Angeles Unified School District elementary school...

Technological Scaffolding for the Assessment of Teaching Dispositions

Eunice Merideth; Eric Johnson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 139–153

Abstract: This paper presents a variety of technological means that can provide scaffolding support that both teacher education programs and their candidates can use to cultivate and document teaching dispositions throughout a program. While the...

The effect of household hospitalizations on the educational attainment of youth

Eric Johnson; C. Lockwood Reynolds

Economics of Education Review Vol. 37, No. 1 (December 2013) pp. 165–182

We utilize data from the NLSY97 to investigate the effect of week-long hospitalizations of household members on the educational attainment of youth. These significant household health events could result in a combination of financial and time...

Language: English

Creating Supplemental Materials: Successful Lessons Learned

Heather Johnson; Eric Aurand; Leslie Johnson; Michelle Lis

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) p. 230

Creating supplementary materials can be an overwhelming process. Come learn how one university developed supplementary materials for content, special assignments, and special topics, such as math anxiety. Also discussed will be benefits faculty...

Introducing Chemical Reactions concepts in K-6 through a hands-on food spherification and spaghetti–fication experiment

Anju Gupta; Nicole Hill; Patricia Valenzuela; Eric Johnson

Journal of STEM Education Vol. 18, No. 1 (Apr 10, 2017)

Recruiting students in STEM majors to fill the gap in STEM workforce in a continued challenge, which can be addressed by introducing scientific principles through hand-on activities to the students at an early stage. This paper presents the design,...

Exploring the Influence of Accomplished Teachers’ Video and Commentary Pairing on Teacher Candidates’ Noticing and Thinking about Practice

Eric Hougan; Heather Johnson; Daniel Novak; Chandra Foote; Amy Palmeri

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 2018) pp. 217–248

Teacher preparation programs are facing increased demands to link pre-service teachers to expert teachers. Literature has highlighted that utilizing accomplished teacher videos has the potential to buttress pre-service teachers’ professional...

Partitioning Default Effects: Why People Choose Not to Choose

Isaac Dinner; Eric J. Johnson; Daniel G. Goldstein; Kaiya Liu

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 332–341

Default options exert an influence in areas as varied as retirement program design, organ donation policy, and consumer choice. Past research has offered potential reasons why no-action defaults matter: (a) effort, (b) implied endorsement, and (c)...

Team Knowledge Sharing Intervention Effects on Team Shared Mental Models and Student Performance in an Undergraduate Science Course

Eric G. Sikorski; Tristan E. Johnson; Paul H. Ruscher

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 21, No. 6 (December 2012) pp. 641–651

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a shared mental model (SMM) based intervention on student team mental model similarity and ultimately team performance in an undergraduate meteorology course. The team knowledge sharing (TKS)...

Case It or Else! Fostering Ethical Awareness about Human Genetics

Mary Lundeberg; Kim Mogen; Mark Bergland; Karen Klyczek; Doug Johnson; Eric MacDonald

Journal of College Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 1 (2002) pp. 64–69

Uses the case study approach to introduce students to the relationship between science and society. Develops an awareness of ethics, specifically on DNA research, through computer simulations and Internet conferencing. (Contains 20 references.) (YDS)

Cloud Computing Adoption and Usage in Community Colleges

Tara S. Behrend; Eric N. Wiebe; Jennifer E. London; Emily C. Johnson

Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 30, No. 2 (March 2011) pp. 231–240

Cloud computing is gaining popularity in higher education settings, but the costs and benefits of this tool have gone largely unexplored. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that lead to technology adoption in a higher education...

Construction of a Rated Speech Corpus of L2 Learners' Spontaneous Speech

Su-Youn Yoon; Lisa Pierce; Amanda Huensch; Eric Juul; Samantha Perkins; Richard Sproat; Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

CALICO Journal Vol. 26, No. 3 (May 2009) pp. 662–673

This work reports on the construction of a rated database of spontaneous speech produced by second language (L2) learners of English. Spontaneous speech was collected from 28 L2 speakers representing six language backgrounds and five different...

The Relation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury to Chronic Lapses of Attention

Matthew B. Pontifex; Steven P. Broglio; Eric S. Drollette; Mark R. Scudder; Chris R. Johnson; Phillip M. O'Connor; Charles H. Hillman

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Vol. 83, No. 4 (December 2012) pp. 553–559

We assessed the extent to which failures in sustained attention were associated with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) deficits in cognitive control among college-age young adults with and without a history of sport-related concussion....

Implementation of an interprofessional error disclosure experience: A multi-institutional collaboration

Carla Dyer; Erin Abu-Rish Blakeney; Eric Johnson; Sarah Shrader; Gretchen Gregory; Andrew Knight; Sarah Shannon; Karen McDonough; Les Hall; Brenda Zierler

Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 2017) pp. 5–11

Creation of educational experiences to promote interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice team skills can be resource-intensive and beyond the capacity of many institutions. Implementation of developed IPE curricular elements to...

Language: English

How Teachers Link Ideas in Mathematics Instruction Using Speech and Gesture: A Corpus Analysis

Martha W. Alibali; Mitchell J. Nathan; Matthew S. Wolfgram; R Breckinridge Church; Steven A. Jacobs; Chelsea Johnson Martinez; Eric J. Knuth

Cognition and Instruction Vol. 32, No. 1 (2014) pp. 65–100

This research investigated how teachers express links between ideas in speech, gestures, and other modalities in middle school mathematics instruction. We videotaped 18 lessons (3 from each of 6 teachers), and within each, we identified "...

The Genomics Education Partnership: Successful Integration of Research into Laboratory Classes at a Diverse Group of Undergraduate Institutions

Christopher D. Shaffer; Consuelo Alvarez; Cheryl Bailey; Daron Barnard; Satish Bhalla; Chitra Chandrasekaran; Vidya Chandrasekaran; Hui-Min Chung; Douglas R. Dorer; Chunguang Du; Todd T. Eckdahl; Jeff L. Poet; Donald Frohlich; Anya L. Goodman; Yuying Gosser; Charles Hauser; Laura L. M. Hoopes; Diana Johnson; Christopher J. Jones; Marian Kaehler; Nighat Kokan; Olga R. Kopp; Gary A. Kuleck; Gerard McNeil; Robert Moss; Jennifer L. Myka; Alexis Nagengast; Robert Morris; Paul J. Overvoorde; Elizabeth Shoop; Susan Parrish; Kelynne Reed; E Gloria Regisford; Dennis Revie; Anne G. Rosenwald; Ken Saville; Stephanie Schroeder; Mary Shaw; Gary Skuse; Christopher Smith; Mary Smith; Eric P. Spana; Mary Spratt; Joyce Stamm; Jeff S. Thompson; Matthew Wawersik; Barbara A. Wilson; Jim Youngblom; Wilson Leung; Jeremy Buhler; Elaine R. Mardis; David Lopatto; Sarah C. R. Elgin

CBE - Life Sciences Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (2010) pp. 55–69

Genomics is not only essential for students to understand biology but also provides unprecedented opportunities for undergraduate research. The goal of the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP), a collaboration between a growing number of colleges...