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A Multi-user virtual environment for building higher order inquiry skills in science
(2010)
This study investigated novel pedagogies for helping teachers infuse inquiry into a standards-based science curriculum. Using a Multi-User Virtual Environment(MUVE) as a pedagogical vehicle, teams of middle school students ...
Comments on Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes: Technologies That Facilitate Generating Knowledge and Possibly Wisdom
(2009)
Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes (2009) argue that Web 2.0 media are well suited to enhancing the education research community’s purpose of generating and sharing knowledge. My response first articulates how a research ...
A multi-user virtual environment to support students' self-efficacy and interest in science: A latent growth model analysis
(Elsevier BV, 2016)
Using latent growth models, we explored: (a) The effect of middle school students' (n = 189) pre-intervention science self-efficacy and science interest on their initial interest in an Ecosystems Multi-User Virtual Environment ...
EcoXPT: Designing for Deeper Learning through Experimentation in an Immersive Virtual Ecosystem
(International Forum of Educational Technology & Society, 2017)
Young people now must compete in a global, knowledge-based, innovation-centered economy; they must acquire not just academic knowledge, but also character attributes such as intrinsic motivation, persistence, and flexibility. ...
Evaluating Technology-Based Strategies for Enhancing Motivation in Mathematics
(2014-10-01)
Background, context, and purpose of study: During the middle school years, students frequently show significant declines in motivation toward school in general and mathematics in particular. One way in which researchers ...
Many Ways to Walk a Mile in Another’s Moccasins: Type of Social Perspective Taking and its effect on Negotiation Outcomes
(Elsevier, 2015)
The process of social perspective taking holds tremendous promise as a means to facilitate conflict resolution. Despite rapidly accumulating knowledge about social perspective taking in general, scholars know little about ...
Learning to reason about ecosystems dynamics over time: The challenges of an event-based causal focus.
(American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2013)
Expert reasoning about ecosystems requires a focus on the dynamics of the system, including the inherent processes, change over time, and responses to disturbances. However, students often bring assumptions to thinking ...