Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHERS’ REPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Lauren Tracy Kaiser, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Sylvia Rosenfield, School Psychology Program A primary goal of Instructional Consultation Teams (IC Teams; Rosenfield & Gravois, 1996) is that students’ problems will be prevented or resolved throu...

BACKGROUND Current methods to assess Basic Life Support skills (BLS; chest compressions and ventilations) require the presence of an instructor. This is time-consuming and comports instructor bias. Since BLS skills testing is a routine activity, it is potentially suitable for automation. We developed a fully automated BLS testing station without instructor by using innovative software linked to...

This study was designed to investigate the instructional effectiveness of six methods of library instruction. University students were randomly assigned to treatment groups, received verbal instruction with/ without supplementary visual illustrations and readings. Results indicated that the self-paced audiovisual tutorial study followed by a summary and question/ answer session was the most eff...

A design rationale for introducing electronic equipment for student interaction in lecture theatres is presented, linking the instructional design to theory. The effectiveness of the equipment for learning depends mostly on what pedagogic method is employed: various alternative types are introduced. Prospective studies are outlined for exploring its use over new ranges of application. Rival vie...

Introduction My research seeks to investigate the potential and learning effectiveness of using digital role-playing games to create situated learning experience for tertiary education students. The papers selected for this literature critique have a recurrent theme of identifying key attributes and characteristics of situated learning and how the instructional model could be successfully adopt...

Self-assessment is an approach of self-directed learning that gives autonomy for teachers to prepared their respective professionalism. It comes from the concept muhasabah by Al-Ghazali aimed form self-discipline in determining pattern life with self-reflect. Bandura through Social Cognitive Theory presents teacher change arises teacher's own self-assessment experience. Teachers' cognitive abou...

This column describes the creation of an online interactive tutorial for health sciences students in a general library at a large, urban university. The project was a collaborative effort among the health sciences subject librarian, the library's web programmer, an assessment and user services librarian, and an instructional support specialist. The column details the initial exploration, design...

The proposed web-based knowledge assessment is based on flexible educational model and allows to implement adaptive control of learning process as well as to implement knowledge testing environment according to the requirements of student’s knowledge level, their personal abilities and his subject learning history. The learner knowledge model can be constructed as a sub graph of the global know...

PURPOSE Numerous studies have documented comparable outcomes from Web-based and traditional classroom instruction. However, there is a paucity of literature comparing these two delivery formats for gerontology courses in dental hygiene curricula. This study examines the effectiveness of alternative methods of course delivery by comparing student profiles and instructional outcomes from a dental...