BACKGROUND Hand-held mobile learning technology provides opportunities for clinically relevant self-instructional modules to augment traditional bedside teaching. Using this technology as a teaching tool has not been well studied. We sought to evaluate medical students' case presentation performance and perception when viewing short, just-in-time mobile learning videos using the iPod touch prio...

User models are essential to e-learning systems, giving students learning continuity, tutors evidence of students' progress, and both a way to personalize students' learning materials to their abilities and preferences. Personalizing information has long been the motivation behind developing e-learning systems. Adaptive educational systems attempt to maintain a learning style profile for each s...

An asynchronous course in the introduction to economic analysis depends on mastery of content before students may progress to the next module. Each module is formulated with introduction, content, graded and non-graded assessment. Student success in a similar course over four semesters is pronounced with little withdrawal and mostly grades of A being received. This paper tells why the instructi...

Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) is one of the most widely adopted student modeling methods in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). Conventional BKT mainly leverages sequences of observations (e.g. correct, incorrect) from student-system interaction log files to infer student latent knowledge states (e.g. unlearned, learned). However, the model does not take into account the instructional inter...

This study is part of a three-year-long research project supported by the Turkish Ministry of National Education. The project aims to investigate social studies teaching from many aspects such as curriculum, the teaching and learning process, textbooks and other instructional materials, student assessment, and the impact on students. This paper specifically focuses on the assessment of high sch...

An unprecedented turn in educational pedagogies due to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected students’ learning process worldwide. This article describes developing a STEM-based online course during schools’ closure epidemic combat virtual science classroom’s limitations that could promise an active STEM environment. model of successfully developed and exercised on 38 primary–prepara...

The studies described in this paper sought to investigate several forms of online learning and assessment methods in terms their efficacy in facilitating student learning. The studies also sought to investigate how participants rated each method. Attitudes toward computer-assisted learning were not related to performance on each of the online methods employed, whereas some relationships were no...

The following individuals read and discussed the dissertation submitted by student Robin David Winslow, and they evaluated his presentation and response to questions during the final oral examination. They found that the student passed the final oral examination. iv DEDICATION I dedicate this dissertation to my wife Kathy who supported and encouraged me through another one of my foolish endeavo...

This study investigated the effects of personalized instruction on the achievement and attitudes of Taiwanese students on two-step mathematics word problems. A total of 136 fourth-graders in a Taiwanese public school participated in the study. Subjects initially completed a Student Survey on which they chose their favorite foods, sports, stores, classmates, and other selections. The most popula...