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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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Performance of US students in mathematics and physics has been limited, partly because the traditional pedagogy relies on logical and linguistic methods of teaching, and students are primarily assessed on fact knowledge and discrete skills. Recent achievements in computer science provide revolutionary means for educational reform. Thus, use of the World Wide Web and Java - a package of a new obj ...

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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 ...

¿Clicking in the Classroom with Bill the Magic Kat¿ ¿ integrates an interactive multimedia technology with innovative instructional techniques to create learning experiences for youth with varying capabilities and diverse cultural experiences. Youth, teachers, and Netcitizens come together with iC to explore students' emotional and intellectual needs. Our mentoring program is created for yout ...

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 ...

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 ...

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