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This Phase I project will consist of a fesibility study in preparation for Phase II project in which a complete 20-hour sign language videocourse will be produced reflecting the entry level skills, learning styles, learning preferences, and sign-processing strategies of hearing adult beginning learners. The primary hearing populations for this instruction are (a) current and prospective teachers ...

The statistical software program "Resampling Stats" will be modified to serve as a teaching instrument, with emphasis on students in colleges of education - our future teachers. The American Statistical Association (ASA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCRM) identify probability and statistics as vital subjects for high school students. Unfortunately, education students too o ...

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Reading is the foundation of all academic learning, and children with reading problems are at serious risk of educational failure. As many as 30% of all students in America can not read English by the end of first grade. The percentage is much higher for the crowing number of students for whom English is a second language. With intense individual remedial instruction, however, most of these stu ...

This proposal describes the development of the Computer-based Instructional System for Computer and Information Literacy. Computer-based instructional technology has demonstrated its ability to carry out numerous education and training functions effectively. As networking and multimedia technologies converge, the use of interactive instructional technologies has experienced a corresponding, dram ...

CSMP is an exciting K-6 math program, designated as an "exemplary educational program that works¿ by the U.S. Department of Education, which funded its development, evaluation, and dissemination. Its spiral, problem solving approach uses picture languages, abaci, and technically challenging games. Simple problems subtly introduce sophisticated concepts. While class and teacher-student intera ...

SIMPLIFYING AND IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE CREATION IS THE GOAL OF A THREE-PHASE PROJECT THAT HAS AS ITS OUTCOME A FIVE- TO TEN-HOUR COMPUTER-BASED COURSE THAT WILL TEACH SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP INSTRUCTIONALLY SOUND COURSEWARE. PLANNING SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (PSI) PROPOSES THIS COURSE AS A FRONT-END TEACHING TOOL TO THE AUTHORING LANGUAGE THAT THE U.S. DEPARTMEN ...

This project will support adult learners who have had difficulty learning from traditional means by providing curricular materials on-demand. It will demonstrate an instructionally sound, cost- effective, user-friendly technology for delivering instruction directly to learners' homes 24 hours a day. Virtually all previous adult education has compromised either convenience or completeness. Learne ...

Demonstration of Image-Based Change Detection using a Prototype Drone-Based Track Safety Inspection 3/16/2018 Today’s prevailing methods of visual track inspection tend to be expensive, disruptive to operations, and have potential to be less thorough than preferred. Machine vision technology emerged in the rail sector over a decade ago to help alleviate these concerns; however, due to the un ...

This project will accomplish the following objectives: 1. identification of the learning needs of an initial target population; 2. examination and selection of effective computer-based delivery methods; 3. identification of partner delivery organizations to assist with the computer-based training of under-educated and under-employed workers.