Research on Learning with Mobile Devices
July 15th, 2009
Arne Duncan recently called for more use of cell phones in learning. I wondered what the state of research was on cell phone use for learning applications and came across a nice article in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (seriously, if you’ve never checked it out, there are some good articles there).
Cheung & Hew [...]
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Teacher Logs as Research Tool
July 13th, 2009
I have been wrapping up a long-term research project using video methodology to observe classrooms. This was a time- and resource-intensive project. I have been wondering about existing research on the tradeoffs of using teacher logs to gather information about teaching and classroom events. I came across two interesting studies of this coauthored by Eric [...]
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Modeling STEM Participation
July 10th, 2009
So, you’re a big school district or university and you want to put some initiatives in place to help increase the number of students interested in STEM careers. But what changes will have the biggest effect? Will some changes have negative effects you haven’t thought about yet? If you change multiple things, what would be [...]
Tags: statistical modeling, STEM interest
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R&D in Chronically Failing Schools
July 5th, 2009
The Institute for Educational Sciences has a new grant call out asking researchers to develop tools to help school leaders turn around chronically failing schools. As is pointed out over at Inside School Research, the request for proposals is interesting in itself.
First, the call says it will not fund any “efficacy studies with group designs.” [...]
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