The role of computers in education: Achievement and comprehension

Prospects ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-414
Author(s):  
José Armando Valente
Keyword(s):  
Computers In Education ◽  
Education Achievement

Computers in Education: Activities, Contributions, and Future Trends

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Khosrowjerdi ◽  
Gary L. Kinzel ◽  
David W. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Computers In Education

The Computers In Education (CIEd) technical committee focuses on educational issues and advances related to the usage of computing technologies in mechanical engineering courses and curricula. This paper provides a retrospective on CIEd activities, issues, and advances beginning with its formal start in 1983 and continuing through the present. Throughout the years, many different topics were explored, new technologies emerged while others disappeared, and many issues were investigated. Current CIEd activities are in six areas: CAD in higher education, robotics in higher education, software tools in the classroom, mechatronics and data acquisition, multimedia for higher education, and the role of the internet in higher education. The first four areas date from 1983, while the last two emerged in the late 1990’s. Future trends and issues are proposed to stimulate further investigations.

Teachers' Beliefs about Computers: Report of a Case Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Hinostroza ◽  
Harvey Mellar
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Computers In Education

Much of the research on the use of computers in education either looks at the computer as a cognitive tool or as a catalyst for change aimed at fostering students' learning and changing teachers' actual routines. However, neither of these perspectives gives much consideration to the teaching framework in which the computer is actually used. In order to address this issue, a case study was designed to explore teachers' concepts and beliefs about computers. In this case study two teachers were involved in a software development process, and observation of their discussions during this process was used as a technique to uncover the teachers' beliefs about using computers. The case study led to a model of how teachers use computers in classroom teaching. This model conceptualizes the computer as a teaching resource that helps teachers to develop their teaching strategy, replacing the teachers in their role of managing students' rehearsal of materials and serving as a classroom management tool. This model of using computers demonstrates significant links between teachers' teaching strategies and the use of computers in education and thereby provides a support for a view of computers as professional tools for educators.

The Computer as Part of the Educational Environment: A Review of Research

1975 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Computer Use ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Teacher Roles ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Computers In Education ◽  
Research Studies

The development of the use of computers in education and some of the educational settings in which computers are used are described, and various types of applications are outlined. A discussion of difficulties in the evaluation of the role of computers in education is followed by an examination of research studies on several aspects of computer use in education. These are the interaction of learner variables with achievement, effect on students' behaviour, and studies of teacher roles and behaviour. The paper concludes that while the acceptability of computer use in education has been fairly fully examined in research work so far, the more complex problems of the broader effects of computer use in educational settings warrant considerable further study.

Can Formal Education Reduce Risks for Drought-Prone Pastoralists?: A Case Study from Baringo District, Kenya

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Little ◽  
Abdillahi Aboud ◽  
Clement Lenachuru
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
Education Achievement ◽  
Benefits And Costs

This article addresses an increasingly important but under-researched and controversial topic in anthropology, the role of formal education in pastoral societies. Only minimal research on the benefits and costs of education for pastoralists has been conducted, in part because, until recently, formal education has not been widespread among herding communities. It argues that education should figure prominently in discussions of contemporary pastoral risk management strategies since engagement in labor markets currently is a critical component of pastoral livelihoods, and this is facilitated by education. Through a case study of the Maasairelated Il Chamus people of Baringo District, Kenya, a group that has experienced rapid gains in education over the past 20 years, the paper assesses two related questions: (1) does formal education actually reduce risks for pastoralists; and (2) what social and economic conditions facilitate positive roles for herder education? By building on data from two different time periods, 1980-1981 and 2000-2004, the authors document local trends in education achievement, contributions of education to local livelihoods, and the effects of a tightening labor market and budget reductions on opportunities for education. The article concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of the study's findings and points to areas that require further research.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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