Developing Instruments to Measure Montessori Instructional Practices

Developing an instrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning

Introduction: Although nursing students spend a large partof their learning period in the clinical environment, clinicallearning has not been perceived by its nature yet. To develop aninstrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning innursing students.Methods: This is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps.First, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursingstudents thr...

A framework for developing better instruments to measure web based health information quality

With the Internet becoming a growing source of health information, evaluating the quality of the webbased health information is essential. A number of consumer-oriented instruments were designed to assess the quality of health information. However, existent tools are incomprehensive, unvalidated, not easy to use, and difficult to understand. The main objective of this study is to provide a fram...

Developing effective hypermedia instructional materials

The use of hypermedia as an instructional medium is growing rapidly with developments and enhancements in instructional and computing technologies. Much of the popularity of the medium is derived from its capacity to convey large amounts of information to learners in structured and associated ways which promote student centred and independent learning. Recent developments in multimedia technolo...

Rethinking K-12 Writing Assessment to Support Best Instructional Practices

Framework for articulating instructional practices and conceptions

We present and describe the development of a framework for assessing or categorizing instructional practices and related conceptions in the context of introductory physics instruction. The purpose of the framework is for articulating practices and conceptions of individual instructors or of curricula. It was developed based on the research literature and interviews with physics faculty and cont...