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HCI and E-Learning: Developing a Framework for Evaluating E-Learning
(2015)This chapter developed a framework for evaluating e-learning for use in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). A systems approach was used in the study; input, processes and output. Eleven categorizations of evaluation of ... -
The History of Distance Education in West Africa; The Timbuktian Scholarship - A Critical Appraisal.
(Virginia Tech, 2013-02)The purpose of the paper discussed in this poster was to trace the historical background of Distance Education (DE) in West Africa and to examine the challenges. The history of DE in West Africa can be traced back to the ... -
How Calculus Eligibility and At-Risk Status Relate to Graduation Rate in Engineering Degree Programs
(Springer, 2019)The problematic persistence rates that many colleges and schools of engineering encounter has resulted in ongoing conversations about academic readiness, retention, and degree completion within engineering programs. Although ... -
How Learning Occurs from the Lesson on Identifying Essential Information on a Sewing Paper Pattern Using Meaningful Reception Learning and Schema Theories
(Virginia Tech, 2012-12-12)The lesson is delivered online and not face-to-face. The lesson consists of a 12-minute video where the instructor goes over the PowerPoint slides and displays different paper patterns, sewn jumpers and different notions. ... -
Identifying Connections between CTE and Academic Programs through Stands of Learning10.5897/IJVTE2016.0195
This article describes a CTE pre-service teacher preparation class project requiring students to identify academic standards of learning relating to the competencies that they teach in their program areas with a view to ... -
Identity, Role, and Oppression: Experiences of LGBTQ Resource Center Graduate Assistants
Utilizing oppression as a conceptual framework, this article explores themes that emerged from qualitative research using epistemological bricolage on data from five graduate assistants who served as the sole institutional ... -
Implications of Similarities in Instructional Design, Learner Interface Design and User Interface Design in Designing a User-Friendly Online Module
(Virginia Tech, 2015)The development of a user-friendly online module depends on the inputs, the processes and the outcomes from the user interface design, the learner interface design and the instructional design. The online module includes ... -
Improving special education teacher quality and effectiveness
(Routledge, 2017-05-25)The purpose of the Handbook of Special Education is to help profile and bring greater clarity to the already sprawling and continuously expanding field of special education. -
Instructional Technology and Distance Education in Nigeria: Historical Background and a Critical Appraisal
(2013)The purpose of this article is to examine the use of instructional technology in distance education in Nigeria and to trace the historical origins of distance education in Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populous country in ... -
Instructional Technology and Distance Education in Nigeria; Historical Background and a Critical Appraisal.
(Virginia Tech, 2012-02-17)The purpose of the paper discussed in this poster is to examine the use of instructional technology in distance education in Nigeria and to trace the historical origins of distance education in Nigeria. There have been ... -
Integrating science and engineering practices: outcomes from a collaborative professional development
(2020-03-13)Background The Next Generation Science Standards accentuate engineering design along with scientific inquiry, emphasizing the relationship between scientific investigations and engineering design in solving problems and ... -
Integrative STEM Education as Best Practice
(2012-12-02)"Integrative STEM Education as Best Practice" was a presentation made on Dec. 6, 2012, to the Technology Education Research Conference in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. It covers the history of iSTEM, defines it, ... -
Integrative Stem Education as “Best Practice”
(Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Queensland, Australia, 2012)In accordance with the conference theme—“Exploring Best Practice in Technology Design & Engineering Education”— I make a case in this paper for investigating “integrative STEM education” as a prospective best practice in ... -
Integrative STEM Education at Virginia Tech: Graduate Preparation for Tomorrow's Leaders
(ITEEA, 2013)An brief overview and description of the new Integrative STEM Education (I-STEM ED) graduate program in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. Provided is the historical context supporting the need for a new integrative ... -
Integrative STEM Education Defined
(National Dropout Prevention Center, 2013)"In operationally defining integrative STEM education, we hope to avoid the gross confusion/ambiguity associated with STEM education. Those who wish to use integrative STEM education to describe instruction must be certain ... -
Integrative STEM Education Exemplar: Implementation of the PIRPOSAL Model
(ITEEA, 2016-10)Presentation of an I-STEM ED exemplar as a vehicle for discussing how STEM education pedagogies can be used for intentionally teaching discipline specific content and practices integral within the phases of technological ... -
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Technology Education
(Council on Technology Teacher Education, 2003)"The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the instructional strategy of the interdisciplinary approach to teaching. The development of education has resulted in a separation of subjects in the school setting. Technology ... -
Inventory of STEM education networks.
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Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?
(University of Chicago Press, 2012-05)We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using data from Project STAR. Teacher effects were computed as residual classroom achievement within schools. Teacher effects ... -
The Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding among Mothers in Two Semi-Urban Areas around a Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) Designated Hospital in Lagos State, Nigeria
(2015)Background: The World health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) initiated intensive efforts to transform hospitals into breastfeeding support centers through the Baby Friendly Hospital ...
