American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
April 1998
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 52
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Principal and Teacher Leader Preparation via a Collaborative Distance Program: Building the Professional Community for School Reform
Lenoar Foster
This paper presents a model of graduate education for advanced teachers and aspiring school administrators that establishes and fosters the foundations for the development of the professional... More
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Comparing Measurement Theories
Randall E. Schumacker
In comparing measurement theories, it is evident that the awareness of the concept of measurement error during the time of Galileo has lead to the formulation of observed scores comprising a true... More
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Using Simulations in the Middle School: Does Assertiveness of Dyad Partners Influence Conceptual Change?
Mark Windschitl
This study examines how academic assertiveness in junior high school students affects conceptual change and the degree to which their assertiveness affects the conceptual change of partners paired ... More
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The Influence of Conceptions of Molecular Structure and Patterns of Problem-Solving on the Process of Learning To Interpret Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra
Barbara L. Gonzalez
The purpose of this study was to characterize the prior conceptions of molecular structure that organic chemistry students expressed as they learned to interpret nuclear magnetic resonance spectra,... More
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Fourteen Homogeneity of Variance Tests: When and How To Use Them
Shuqiang Zhang
Homogeneity of variance (HOV) is a major assumption underlying the validity of many parametric tests. More importantly, it serves as the null hypothesis in substantive studies that focus on cross- ... More
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A Teacher Educator Studies His Teaching: A Self-Study with Multiple Perspectives
Charles B. Myers, David Jones & Chris Snyder
This paper reports on a 2-year study of changes that occurred in one instructor's teaching of an introductory undergraduate course on teacher education across four semesters. The study includes the... More
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Course Design, Instruction, and Students' Online Behaviors: A Study of Instructional Variables and Students' Perceptions of Online Learning
Mingming Jiang & Evelyn Ting
This paper presents a study of factors influencing students' perceived learning in a World Wide Web-based course environment. Qualitative and quantitative methods were employed in the process of... More
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Web-Based Delivery of Instruction: Prospects and Challenges
Janette R. Hill, Landra L. Rezabek & Brandon Murry
This paper reports outcomes from a development and evaluation effort focused on a specific World Wide Web-based learning environment (WBLE) for school library media specialists (SLMS). Background... More
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The Paradox of the World Wide Web in Education: An Investigation of the Links between Power, Knowledge, and Human Interest of Inquiry
Hsi Nancy Lien, Ifeng Jeng & L Roger Yin
In the current education literature, the World Wide Web, a subset of the Internet, has an image of freedom and liberation based on its capacity to transcend the conventional notions of time and... More
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Electronic Texts and Learners of English as a Second Language
Carla Meskill, Jonathan Mossop & Richard Bates
This paper details a 2-year study of exemplary uses of electronic texts (information displayed electronically on a computer screen) in two English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning contexts.... More
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Is It Time To Circle the Wagons? Lessons Learned in Pioneering Electronic Portfolios
Mary Q. Penta
A key objective of a federally funded grant received by the Wake County Public Schools (North Carolina) was to develop new methods of assessment. The school district decided to fulfill this... More
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Critical Literacy and New Technologies
Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel
Increasingly in Australia, attention is being given in English or language education to core or functional literacy conceived as print mastery, alongside literature, and critical literacy. The... More
