Evaluating the Educational Value of Microcomputers

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The Publication Process in Educational Measurement

Why is it important to publish your research? How are papers reviewed before publication decisions are made? How can you select the right journal for your paper? How do EM:” and other measurement journals compare in content, orientation, and other characteristics?     

Microcomputers:

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Microcomputers in Mathematics Teaching

The use of computers is of considerable value for those learning mathematics. Their effective use depends upon adequate teacher education and the provision of sufficient hardware in classrooms where mathematics is taught. The purpose of using computers in mathematics classrooms is to engage learners' interest and involvement in the mathematics they are learning. To achieve this learners need to be in control of what they are doing. At present, turtle geometry and the use of relatively limited software packages appear to be most effective for this, but in the near future it should be possible to develop software tools which are both powerful and easy to use. These are likely to include information-retrieval packages; spreadsheets; and also 'microworlds' written in a language such as Logo or Prolog.     

Microcomputers in Special Schools

Bob Hart senior inspector for schools, Walsall, and Ian Staples, teacher at Jane Lane ESN(M) School, Walsall, describe microcomputers' value as a link between research and classroom teaching styles and some programs developed so far     

Microcomputers in Communications Disorders

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Using Microcomputers in the Classroom

Drawing upon their practical experience as teachers and as teacher trainers, the authors describe development work done in a school for children with severe learning handicap. The project in question focused upon the communication and learning needs of a boy with athetoid cerebral palsy. Over a period of time, both the computer hardware (mainly communication devices) and software programmes were developed which have made an incalculable contribution to the boy's contact with his teachers and his fellow‐pupils. The work done has already been adapted and made available for other pupils.     

Strategies for Identifying Research Topic in Educational Measurement

How might a novice researcher go about setting a research agenda? What are the most productive avenues for generating research questions? What areas of educational measurement currently seem most promising?     

变点检测在教育测量中的应用研究

本文将变点检测的研究方法引入语言教育测量研究中,以学习者写作能力的发展变化检测为个案,通过介绍变点分析器(Change-point Analyzer,简称CPA)的实操步骤,阐述了变点检测在语言能力发展评估研究中的实际应用过程,旨在让更多对变点检测与分析感兴趣的研究人员了解并运用该软件,在跨学科研究深度融合的背景下拓宽人文科学的研究思路,推动学科研究的发展与方法创新。     

Statistical Reasoning in Psychometric Models and Educational Measurement

This paper explores three points raised by Divgi (1986) in order to explicate the important distinction between deterministic and statistical reasoning in the application of statistical models to educational measurement. The three issues concern the relationship between data and esimation equations, the distinction between parameters and parameter estimates, and the power of tests of fit of responses across the ability continuum.     

Microcomputers and continuing motivation

This study investigated the effects of medium of instructional practice, task difficulty, and gender on continuing motivation. A total of 139 fifth and sixth graders with previous computer experience completed an initial drill and practice learning task in one of the two media formats (computer or paper/pencil) at either a hard or easy difficulty level. Subjects' choice of practice medium for a second learning task was the measure of continuing motivation. Sixty-seven of the 69 computer subjects (97 percent) chose to return to practice on the computer, whereas only one of 70 paper/pencil subjects (one percent) chose to return to practice in the paper/pencil form. p<.001. Questionnaire data indicated that computer subjects also evaluated their own performance on the instructional practice task significantly more highly, reported the task to be significantly more interesting and easier, and had a greater desire to study more of the subject matter.     

Microcomputers and Preschoolers:

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Violation of Selected Item Construction Principles in Educational Measurement

The effects of violating four item construction principles were examined to assess the validity of the principles and the importance of students’ test wiseness. While flawed items were significantly less difficult than sound items, differences in item discrimination, test reliability, and concurrent validity were not observed. These results are interpreted to suggest that variance attributable to test wiseness may be relatively small, and item-writing guidelines may be robust to violation.