(2017). Proceedings of the 2017 ASCUE Summer Conference (50th, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June 11-15, 2017). Association Supporting Computer Users in Education The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. Begun in 1968 as the College and University Eleven-Thirty Users' Group (CUETUG), with an initial membership requirement of sharing at least one piece of software each year with other members, ASCUE has a strong tradition of bringing its members together to pool their resources to help each other. ASCUE continues the tradition of sharing through its national conference held every year in June, its conference proceedings, and its newsletter. ASCUE proudly affirms this tradition in its motto: "Our Second Quarter Century of Resource Sharing." ASCUE initiated a refereed track for paper submissions to the conference in 2008. In fact, at the 2008 business meeting, the membership approved three different… [PDF]
(2017). Changes in the Design and Instruction of Online Graduate Mathematics Education Courses. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Houston. Background: New emerging online technologies have made dynamic changes in the structure of the online environment possible to address varying needs of diverse learners. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the changes that occurred in online instructional design and strategies in mathematics education courses taught over a course of six years by the same instructor. The research questions were: What are the changes / revisions that occur in teaching online graduate courses over the course of six years and what are the reasons for these changes as explained by the instructor? Methods: The research method used was a qualitative case study utilizing recorded and transcribed instructor interviews, observation of synchronous online classes and archival data in the form of course syllabi and PowerPoint slides used in the synchronous online class sessions. The study participant, a veteran mathematics educator taught online mathematics education courses for six years in… [Direct]
(2013). Exploring Competency Development with Mobile Devices. International Association for Development of the Information Society, Paper presented at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Prague, Czech Republic, Jul 23-26, 2013). Computer-based technologies have been used in the field of education for over thirty years. However, more recently, powerful and more affordable mobile technologies are becoming popular in everyday life and the education system. This paper reports on an online survey of student body in a university in Ontario, Canada focused on the use of a wide variety of digital technologies, including mobile devices such as conventional cellphones, smartphones, tablets, and e-readers. Preliminary results indicate that students are using conventional cellphones with less frequency, favouring use of smartphones and tablets–using such devices more for technical, social, and informational interactions including texting and sharing data and less for computational functions and talking. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]… [PDF]
(2017). Paying the Piper: The Costs and Consequences of Academic Advancement. Sport, Education and Society, v22 n1 p105-121. In many professions there are qualifications to gain and professional standards to achieve. Lawyers pass the bar and doctors pass their boards. In academic life the equivalent is a doctorate, closely followed by a profile of peer-reviewed publication. To hold a doctoral degree is the common requirement to become "academic" but does it prepare individuals to advance in an academic career? In choosing the idiom "paying the piper" (i.e. where one must pay the costs and accept the consequences of one's actions) we recognise that in seeking to develop our scholarly profiles we had to choose to adapt successfully to global workplace expectations, modify our professional aspirations or refuse to participate. In this paper we examine the challenges we faced as academics in physical education as we progressed from beginning to mid-career stages. We focus particularly on challenges related to seeking external research funding, exploring our assumptions about academic life… [Direct]
(2015). Perceptions of Pre-Service English Teachers towards the Integration of an LMS into English Language Teacher Education. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, v23 n4 p485-507 Oct. With the growing availability of educational technologies, informing future teachers about the use of such technologies in their classrooms has become essential, particularly for language teachers. Integrating these technologies into the curriculum of language teaching education programs is more appropriate than simply sharing information with pre-service teachers via short computer courses. Over the past decade, various Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have been gradually integrated into language teacher education programs to provide 24/7-connected teaching and learning environments. Many studies have investigated LMS adoption in terms of economic and technical challenges. However, what have been less covered are the perceptions of pre-service on the integration of an LMS. This paper reports on a study designed to gain insights into the perceptions of pre-service English teachers on the integration of an LMS into courses at a state university in Turkey. A total of 122 prospective… [Direct]
(2015). Secondary Schools in a County in Kenya Seem to Be Taking Advantages of the Cost Sharing Policy: Understanding Its Practice and Implications. Journal of Education and Practice, v6 n21 p145-154. The study set out to research on parents' views regarding the practice of cost sharing policy in secondary schools in Kenya in relation to form one entry items requirement and fee payment. This article reports on its findings. The study adopted a quantitative survey and employed a questionnaire (both closed and open-ended) to collect data. The study involved 150 participants with a response rate of 83.3%. The data obtained was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) resulting in descriptive data. The results reveal that: the items required by schools have grown over the years (90 per cent, n = 150); the items requirement are putting enormous pressure on the parents (96 per cent, n = 150); the items requirements are negatively affecting children's access to certain schools (94 per cent, n = 150); and as a result many parents were forced to send their children to poor local harambee secondary schools (96 per cent, n = 150) because they could not afford despite… [PDF]
(2015). Developing Pre-Service Teachers' Subject Matter Knowledge of Electromagnetism by Integrating Concept Maps and Collaborative Learning. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, v19 n3 p306-318. This case study explored the development of two pre-service teachers' subject matter knowledge (SMK) of electromagnetism while integrating the use of concept maps (CM) and collaborative learning (CL) strategies. The study aimed at capturing how these pre-service teachers' SMK in electromagnetism was enhanced after having been taught SMK in a university module on electromagnetism via a lecture mode. The participants' progress in acquiring SMK was monitored when they engaged in individual-constructivist learning and socio-constructivist learning when working in pairs. Data were collected from concept maps on electromagnetism and from individual interviews. This interpretive case study suggests that the participants benefitted in several ways in consolidating their SMK of electromagnetism through integrating CM activities and engaging in CL. These benefits included the revision of previous work; the reflection on choices of the big conceptual ideas in electromagnetism; making… [Direct]
(2015). Coming down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations. Educational Technology & Society, v18 n1 p13-26. Different approaches have explored how to provide seamless learning across multiple ICT-enabled physical and virtual spaces, including three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW). However, these approaches present limitations that may reduce their acceptance in authentic educational practice: The difficulties of authoring and sharing teacher-created designs across different 3DVW platforms, or the lack of integration of 3DVWs with existing technologies in the classroom ecosystem (e.g., widespread web-based learning platforms such as Moodle, or mobile augmented reality applications). Focusing on a specific kind of 3DVW (virtual globes, such as Google Earth, used like 3DVWs), we propose a system that enables teachers to deploy across-spaces learning situations, which can be authored with a plethora of existing learning design tools, that involve different common web-based learning platforms, mobile AR applications and multiple kinds of virtual globes. A prototype of the architecture has… [Direct]
(2022). Increasing College STEM Instructors' Equity-Oriented Teaching Competencies and Students' Success. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. My dissertation research explores the factors that drive college STEM instructors' adoption of equitable teaching practices, such as Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEP). AEP is a framework for adjusting teaching to address equity barriers to learning based on student data collected through formative assessment, observations, and surveys (Phuong et al., 2017a). Through randomized controlled trials, I had previously found that compared to an active learning control course, instructors applying AEP improved average student achievement by over a letter grade and narrowed achievement gaps for all students (Phuong & Nguyen, 2019; Phuong et al., 2022). In my dissertation research, 129 student-instructors (henceforth "instructors") were randomly assigned to treatment and control pedagogy courses. While the control course "taught" instructors "about" AEP, the treatment course "modeled" AEP explicitly by using weekly instructor reflection data to… [Direct]
(2016). Going Deeper with Deep Knowledge Tracing. International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, NC, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2016). Over the last couple of decades, there have been a large variety of approaches towards modeling student knowledge within intelligent tutoring systems. With the booming development of deep learning and large-scale artificial neural networks, there have been empirical successes in a number of machine learning and data mining applications, including student knowledge modeling. Deep Knowledge Tracing (DKT), a pioneer algorithm that utilizes recurrent neural networks to model student learning, reports substantial improvements in prediction performance. To help the EDM community better understand the promising techniques of deep learning, we examine DKT alongside two well-studied models for knowledge modeling, PFA and BKT. In addition to sharing a primer on the internal computational structures of DKT, we also report on potential issues that arise from data formatting. We take steps to reproduce the experiments of Deep Knowledge Tracing by implementing a DKT algorithm using Google's… [PDF] [Direct] [Direct]
(2011). Study of Sharing Knowledge Resources in Business Schools. Learning Organization, v18 n2 p102-114. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a common business school framework based on knowledge resources that are available in business schools. To support the arguments made based on review literature, the paper presents the holistic framework of knowledge resources in a business school and also provides a knowledge value chain in sharing the resources. The paper then applies the framework to study the provisions of knowledge recourses in a business school to examine the effect of knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on insights from review literature the paper starts from a broad view on knowledge sharing in business schools. Then the paper proposes a knowledge-sharing framework. To evaluate the framework, the paper investigates one of the business school's knowledge sharing tools. Wherever data were insufficient, logical interpretation is provided. The framework is compared with respect to business schools. Then it is analyzed with the business school's… [Direct]
(2014). "It's Very Complicated" Exploring Heritage Language Identity with Heritage Language Teachers in a Teacher Preparation Program. Language and Education, v28 n2 p181-195. Despite the proliferation of research in heritage language (HL) education, pedagogically based research that examines teacher education practice for promoting critical reflection of HL teachers is sparse. This article describes how preservice teachers working in community-based HL schools changed their views of HL identity during their participation in a teacher preparation program in Hawaii. The researcher as a teacher educator collected data over the course of three semesters while closely working with a cohort of five HL-speaking undergraduate students. The data included class transcripts, interviews and online reflection journals. This article delineates the ways in which the teacher educator and her students co-constructed the meaning of HL identity by (1) problematizing academic constructs of HL; (2) sharing personal and professional narratives and (3) capitalizing on linguistic and cultural funds of knowledge of HL teachers. Data analysis shows that HL teachers exhibited… [Direct]
(2014). The New "Journal of Jewish Education" at Ten: An Appraisal. Journal of Jewish Education, v80 n3 p160-192. This article documents the "Journal of Jewish Education's" acquisition by the Network for Research in Jewish Education, in 2004, and evaluates the contribution of the re-launched Journal to the field of Jewish education. I explore how the Journal contributed over the past decade in three discrete yet often overlapping areas, thereby realizing its editors' vision. First, the "Journal of Jewish Education" became the venue for conversations between researchers, practitioners and funders about the direction of Jewish education research and policy; second, it became an outlet for the sharing of research and other Jewish education scholarship; and third, it became a venue where scholars introduced research and theoretical constructs from the field of general education and sought to demonstrate their relevance to Jewish education. Finally, I suggest some reasons why the editors had less success in realizing a fourth goal for the "Journal"; that is,… [Direct]
(2024). Toward Ethical and Just AI in Education Research. Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) Research and development work in artificial intelligence in education (AIED) is wide ranging and rapidly growing to support all areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning. At the risk of hyperbole, this is potentially the most fundamentally game-changing technology for education to emerge since the internet. Building from decades of work on AI and AI-based learning and teaching technologies, the recent advances in AIED are pushing us to reimagine what is possible for STEM teaching and learning. AIED research initiatives are being speedily funded, and AIED advances are quickly becoming integrated into STEM education. It is transforming how teachers teach and how students learn. It is also transforming how education developers and researchers conduct their expansive work. There is excitement about the promise of AIED as well as growing concern that the breakthroughs in AIED are impacting everyday education practice in ways that may… [PDF]
(2013). The Mechanisms of Interpersonal Privacy in Social Networking Websites: A Study of Subconscious Processes, Social Network Analysis, and Fear of Social Exclusion. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arkansas. With increasing usage of social networking sites like Facebook there is a need to study privacy. Previous research has placed more emphasis on outcome-oriented contexts, such as e-commerce sites. In process-oriented contexts, like Facebook, privacy has become a source of conflict for users. The majority of architectural privacy (e.g. privacy policies, website mechanisms) enables the relationship between a user and business, focusing on the institutional privacy concern and trust; however, architectural privacy mechanisms that enables relationships between and among users is lacking. This leaves users the responsibility to manage privacy for their interpersonal relationships. This research focuses on the following question: "How does privacy influence the sharing of personal information in interpersonal relationships on social networking sites?" The management of the sharing of personal information is explained using the Need to Belong theory, psychological contract, and… [Direct]