International Journal of Instructional Media articles from March 2004

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from March 2004

The "Special Act" public school districts in New York state: helping children with special needs reach higher academic standards.(No Child Left Behind Act )
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION In recent years, large numbers of schools and districts throughout the United States have responded to calls for improved academic performance by implementing standards-based reforms. These reforms have been grounded in the...

Innovation: a multimedia program series focusing on technological advances.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Innovation is an eight-part multimedia television series airing on public broadcasting stations throughout the United States. It focuses on technological breakthroughs and the personalities and circumstances that bring about...

Creativity in teaching media literacy.(influence of advertisements on consumers)
March 22, 2004... Media literacy is a topic of growing interest as the information age provides increased mens of receiving material from a wide range of sources. With an abundance of information, the need to determine the value of content becomes pertinent to...

Guiding distance educators in building Web-based instructions.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The Internet becomes as communication links among computer-networked environments accessed by any user no matter where you are and when you want to. The Web provides user-friendly hyperlinks enabling one document to contain...

Assessing higher-order thinking using a networked portfolio system with peer assessment.(Taiwan. Ministry of Education)
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The definition of portfolio has many types. Paulson, Paulson, and Mayer (8) said: A portfolio is a purposeful collection of a student's work that tells the story of student achievement or growth, and a collection of items that...

Coral-view: a network-based design environment for collaborative learning.(Taiwanese university students study in a different environment)
March 22, 2004... 1. INTRODUCTION The flexibility that is associated with distance learning is generally negated by monotonous web courseware and unfocused on-line chats. In the absence of clearly defined learning strategies and pedagogically compatible...

Bridging between practice fields and real communities through instructional technologies.(learning with real life problems)
March 22, 2004... BRIDGING BETWEEN PRACTICE FIELDS AND REAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE As educators interested in issues related to learning, we have been progressively moving from cognitive theories that predominately emphasize individual and isolated minds to...

Hypermedia in vocational learning: a hypermedia learning environment for training management skills.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION A learning environment is defined as an arrangement of issues, methods, techniques, and media in a given domain. Besides temporal and spatial features a learning environment considers the social situation in which learning...

Effect of varied animated enhancement strategies in facilitating achievement of different educational objectives.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The new electronic technologies are facilitating a wide variety of message designs making it possible for the design of multi-media environments which provide students a diversity of learning experiences through the use of...

The effects of homework activities and teaching strategies for new mathematics topics on achievement of adolescent students in Japan: results from the TIMSS 1999 assessment.
March 22, 2004... There have been a number of efforts to incorporate instructional design principles into mathematics teaching in order to improve student achievement. For instance, an instructional design approach including a mastery learning strategy and...