May 2004 — Exclusive Series: SBR
Print this article | Email this articleClick here to receive your FREE subscription to T.H.E. Journal
Making the Case: Research Efforts on Educational Technology
9. Washington University
Test-Enhanced Learning.
Project focus: Provide a new approach to learning, memory and comprehension of written material by examining the effectiveness of using testing as a learning tool in a Web-based university course.
10. Carnegie Mellon University
The Neural Markers of Effective Learning.
Project focus: Use brain imaging to improve the design of a computer-based instructional approach to teaching key algebraic concepts. Effectiveness will be evaluated by assessing student gains on solving word problems.
11. University of Maryland, College Park
Computer-Assisted Instruction for Learning and Long-Term Retention Based on Recent Cognitive and Metacognitive Findings.
Project focus: Improve computer-assisted instruction designed to facilitate the learning and long-term retention of second-language vocabulary by creating an individualized computer tutor for children and adults.
12. LessonLab Inc.
Improving Achievement by Maintaining the Learning Potential of Rich Mathematics Problems: An Experimental Study of a Video- and Internet-Based Professional Development Program.
Project focus: Create a video- and Internet-based professional development program in which middle school pre-algebra teachers learn to identify, design and incorporate mathematically rich problems in ways that retain rich learning opportunities for students.
13. University of Texas Health Center
Scaling Up a Language and Literacy Development Program at the PreK Level.
Project focus: Examine the effectiveness of an online early literacy professional development model for early childhood teachers. The university's project promises to contribute to our knowledge of technologically supported teacher professional development.
14. Univ. of Texas Health Science Center
Scaling Up an Assessment-Driven Intervention Using the Internet and Handheld Computers.
Project focus: Investigate the effectiveness of an intervention that uses the Internet and handheld computers to help teachers link results from reading inventories to instructional practice to produce improvements in student achievement.
15. Southern Methodist University
Scaling Up Effective Intervention for Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children.
Project focus: Study the relative effectiveness of approaches to teaching reading when early literacy intervention teachers are provided with differing models of professional development that use computer-based systems for content delivery and coaching.
16. University of California at Berkeley
A Longitudinal Study of the Effectiveness of a PreK Multisensory Literacy Curriculum, Teacher Experience and Professional Development.
Project focus: Examine the efficacy of an interactive, multisensory technology-based literacy curriculum with at-risk preschool children, which focuses on literacy skills that are essential to reading success in the first grade.
17. The Media Group of Connecticut Inc.
