[PDF] Top 20 Year: 2018 Volume: 6 Number: 2 (Special Issue on Educational Uses of iPads and Tablets)

... Kevin is a 40-year-old Black male who taught an eighth-grade interdisciplinary STEM course, where students learn about the principles of engineering through experiences with robotics, computer science, and ... See full document

... Several authors, researchers, and organizations have devised models for evaluating learning objects, though not necessarily for the same reasons. Online learning object repositories, for example, may have criteria that ... See full document

... of tablets aids in the creation of stop motion movies in the ...reason tablets (i.e., iPads) make this process easier is through the use of sophisticated applications ... See full document

... How do students with varying academic strengths comprehend science text read on their iPads? In this study, we used verbal protocols and classroom observation to answer this question. This is a timely study. The ... See full document

... of iPads, as mechanisms to address three interrelated concerns in the district (American Institute for Research, ...a number of the district‟s neediest students were among those lacking dependable access to ... See full document

... classroom practice (See Jacob, R.T., Hill, H.C. & Corey, D., 2017). The study researchers and the program‟s developers mapped a professional development logic model that began with a needs assessment and professional ... See full document

... The team agreed that temperature was a plausible way to change the tissue sample and/or environment. The students understood that changing the temperature, either by increasing or decreasing it, was an option that had ... See full document

... second year of ...Such educational environments are not always conducive for students to digest conceptually difficult course content and receive timely individualized ... See full document

... this special issue examine student learning and experiences in the engineering component of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and ...this special issue and their contributions to the ... See full document

... This study used the Onwuebuzie and Johnson legitimation framework (2006) for mixed methods quality considerations. For this framework, nine legitimation types are considered to improve the quality of mixed methods ... See full document

... We also considered goodness-of-fit information that is available with an ML-based EFA. Three kinds of fitness measures are available for testing models: measures of absolute fit, comparative fit, and parsimonious fit ... See full document

... In the above excerpt, Jata (line 2) initiated a move for the team to make a decision on how to proceed with the team’s design. She explicitly offered her teammates two potential methods for participating in ... See full document

... The results of this systematic literature review demonstrate that engineering identity development is a topic that has received increasing attention within the past three years, and is primarily limited to discussion in ... See full document

... their educational/career/familial aspirations as well as personal convictions, grounded in experience, that they wanted to be ...their educational goals were not singular and premier but interdependent, ... See full document

... of educational attainment or socioeconomic status (Farrell & Medvedeva, 2010), or they already may be more inclined to engage and collaborate with their ... See full document

... The nine items were selected to be: (1) aligned with the design challenge applicable to both of the middle schools in the study and (2) pragmatically shorter to allow students to complete the assessment during ... See full document

... Group 2 readily identified and focused in on specific forms of data as a means for discussing which choice made the most sense, often while thinking about relevant disciplinary ideas ...extract 6). While ... See full document

... Analysis of the PEIs revealed that technology and mathematics were often viewed as supports or tools to either (1) help students understand science concepts or (2) make decisions about EDCs. It was evident that ... See full document

... of Educational Progress) conducts assessments periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, United States history, and more recently in Technology and Engineering ... See full document

... of educational experiences based on the knowledge level of the ...informal educational experiences for students, they may want to focus on the most manageable concepts for novice ... See full document