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Fry, Sara Winstead; Gosky, Ross – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
This study investigated how middle school students' comprehension was impacted by reading social studies texts online with a pop-up dictionary function for every word in the text. A quantitative counterbalance design was used to determine how 129 middle school students' reading comprehension test scores for the pop-up dictionary reading differed…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies, Dictionaries
Ligorio, M. Beatrice; Cesareni, Donatella; Schwartz, Neil – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
Virtual environments are able to extend the space of interaction beyond the classroom. In order to analyze how distributed cognition functions in such an extended space, we suggest focusing on the architecture of intersubjectivity. The Euroland project--a virtual land created and populated by seven classrooms supported by a team of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Social Influences, Computer Uses in Education
Rakes, Glenda C.; Fields, Valerie S.; Cox, Karee E. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2006
This study investigated the relationship between technology use and skills and the use of constructivist instructional practices among teachers in rural schools. Teachers in this study responded to Moersch's instrument, the Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi). The LoTi was administered to the fourth and eighth grade teachers in 11 school…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education, Rural Schools