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Forty-one preservice teachers were divided into two groups and were instructed how to integrate certain Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in learning activities. Only one group was guided to use Filamentality, a fill-in-the-blank...

In this study, an instructional design model was developed and employed for restructuring science education method courses with technology. Using tools, such as multimedia authoring tools, the design and implementation of high quality technology...

Sixty-four undergraduates were classified into Field Dependent (FD), Between Field Dependent/Independent (BFD/I), and Field Independent (FI) learners, and were randomly assigned to Text-Only (T-O) and Text-and-Visual (T-V) groups. Participants had...

We report on the findings of a study that was completed in July of 2002 regarding the affordances of asynchronous conferencing to foster quality computer-mediated interactions. Specifically, we investigated the extent to which COW, can be used to...

The study discusses the evolvement of an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model as it was evaluated and progressively refined after consecutive iterations. The proposed ISD model can be used in technology courses or method courses to develop...

The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which learning by design could be an effective approach for developing science teachers' ICT-related pedagogical content knowledge (ICT-related PCK) during an ICT teacher professional development ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which preservice elementary teachers were able to construct viable scientific models with a computer-modeling tool, namely Model-It, and design a science lesson with models. The results of the...

The purpose of this research study was to develop a conceptual framework for scaffolding learners' critical thinking in a text-based online conferencing system for a science education methods course. The specific question that we sought to answer in ...

In a lab meeting, students were asked to predict and discuss in teams of two to three students what would happen when a cylinder is inverted over a burning candle upright in a pan of water. Because students presented conflicting claims about the...

Forty-seven preservice teachers who were enrolled in a science education methods course were introduced to the use of hypothetico-predictive arguments in the context of testing hypotheses about several experiments. During a lab session, participants ...

In this study we report on the effects of learning with O.D.R.E.S. ™, a computer tool that was designed to promote elementary students' evidence-based scientific reasoning, as well as the effects of O.D.R.E.S. ™ on students' conceptions three months ...

The study investigated the extent to which two types of instructional materials and learner field dependence-independence affected learners’ cognitive load, time spent on task, and problem-solving performance in a complex system with a computer...