International Journal of Instructional Media articles from September 1999

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from September 1999

TEACHERS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING.
September 22, 1999... THE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AT PURCHASE COLLEGE, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR REACHING HIGHER ACADEMIC STANDARDS INTRODUCTION A chorus of voices continues to urge increased training and...

INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA INITIATIVES Focusing on the Educational Resources Center.
September 22, 1999... INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA INITIATIVES Focusing on the Educational Resources Center at Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York THE NATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR MATH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: EXEMPLARY PRACTICE IN A CLIMATE OF HIGHER STANDARDS...

INSTRUCTIONAL IMAGE DEVELOPMENT FOR NETWORK-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION.
September 22, 1999... The proliferation of networked learning environments has evoked consideration of the information transfer capabilities of various learning technologies. Educators encounter challenges maximizing the instructional potential of this limited...

REQUIRING WRITING, ENSURING DISTANCE-LEARNING OUTCOMES.
September 22, 1999... AN OVERVIEW OF CNU ONLINE With a proliferation of new technologies, with a demand for cost-effective education, and with a growing number of non-traditional students, institutions of higher learning have turned to distance learning. But...

ASSESSING STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF INTERNET-BASED ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Development of the Internet has started a revolution in communication that is providing new opportunities for delivering instruction. The Internet began as communication links among computer facilities and departments,...

DESIGNING A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION IN ROAD EDUCATION: A FIRST EVALUATION.
September 22, 1999... 1. CHARACTERISTICS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SYSTEM Traffic accidents are among the main problems affecting the most advanced societies and whose economic and human consequences are enormous. One way to reduce this problem is by carrying out an...

TELEMATICS, NARRATIVE AND POETRY: THE PAROLE IN JEANS PROJECT.
September 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Network communication is primarily based on the written word. Conducting interpersonal exchange in this manner opens up a range of possibilities, offering direct educational benefits through interaction and debate. It also...

THE EFFECTS OF ENTERING CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCES ON STUDENT SATISFACTION AND DEGREE COMPLETION: AN APPLICATION OF THE INPUT-ENVIRONMENT-OUTCOME ASSESSMENT MODEL.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... The importance of students' affective characteristics (such as academic self-concept, motivation, and achievement expectancies) for instructional design has been discussed (1-4). A motivational model of instructional design has been developed...

EFFECT OF VARIED REHEARSAL STRATEGIES AND TESTING FORMAT ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... Information acquisition, retention and retrieval are critical components in the teaching leaming process. Although there is disagreement among psychologists about the structure of encoded information, there is a consensus that learners are...

EFFECTIVE MONITOR DISPLAY DESIGN.
September 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Those designers who are able to express their ideas clearly and efficiently on a computer screen will be most successful at gaining an audience for their ideas. Typically, information users will scan for visuals that...

"AUDIO MUSICOLOGY: A DISCOGRAPHY OF TRIBUTES TO MUSICAL STYLES AND RECORDING ARTISTS".
September 22, 1999... Don McLean, Stevie Wonder, and The Tractors possess no formal credentials in musicology. The same can be said for Billy Joel and The Blasters. Yet each of these artists explore the historical roots of modern music in their popular recordings....

PUBLISHERS ADDENDUM.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
September 22, 1999... There was a printing error in International Journal of Instructional Media, Volume 26, Number 3, 1999. The error appeared in the following article on page 392, and the correction appears below. We apologize to the authors of this article and to...