Exploring magnitude of change in teacher efficacy and implications for students' literacy growth

Cheryl Varghese; Justin D. Garwood; Mary Bratsch-Hines; Lynne Vernon-Feagans

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 55, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 228–239

Increasingly, coaching-based professional development models are used to support classroom teachers' implementation of the literacy interventions. Research suggests that these models may positively impact classroom teachers' self-efficacy, which is...

Language: English

Enhancing Student Knowledge Acquisition from Online Learning Conversations

Evren Eryilmaz; Jakko van der Pol; Terry Ryan; Philip Martin Clark; Justin Mary

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 2013) pp. 113–144

This article reports a theory-driven experimental study that evaluates the effects of an annotation functionality on online social interaction and individual learning outcomes. The central hypothesis of this study is that directly addressing a part...

Visualizing Revision: Leveraging Student-Generated Between-Draft Diagramming Data in Support of Academic Writing Development

Justin Olmanson; Katrina Kennett; Alecia Magnifico; Sarah McCarthey; Duane Searsmith; Bill Cope; Mary Kalantzis

Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 21, No. 1 (2016) pp. 99–123

Once writers complete a first draft, they are often encouraged to evaluate their writing and prioritize what to revise. Yet, this process can be both daunting and difficult. This study looks at how students used a semantic concept mapping tool to re-...

Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Statistics: A Meta-Analysis

Giovanni W. Sosa; Dale E. Berger; Amanda T. Saw; Justin C. Mary

Review of Educational Research Vol. 81, No. 1 (March 2011) pp. 97–128

Although previous meta-analyses have documented the efficacy of computer-assisted statistics instruction, the current study examined a range of specific features that presumably influence its effectiveness, such as the level of learner engagement,...

Design and evaluation of instructor-based and peer-oriented attention guidance functionalities in an open source anchored discussion system

Evren Eryilmaz; Ming Ming Chiu; Brian Thoms; Justin Mary; Rosemary Kim

Computers & Education Vol. 71, No. 1 (February 2014) pp. 303–321

Social interactions to supplement learning and asynchronous tools to facilitate exchange of quality ideas have gained much attention in information systems education. While various systems exist, students have difficulty with deep processing of...

Language: English