ABRACADABRA in the hands of teachers: The effectiveness of a web-based literacy intervention in grade 1 language arts programs

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 911-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Savage ◽  
Ozlem Erten ◽  
Philip Abrami ◽  
Geoffrey Hipps ◽  
Erin Comaskey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Arts ◽  
Literacy Intervention ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Arts Programs

A Comparative Study of Two First-Grade Language Arts Programs

1966 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Kendrick ◽  
Clayton L. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Arts Programs

scholarly journals “Such Tweet Sorrow”: The Explosive Impact of New Literacies on Adolescent Responses to Live Theatre

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
John M. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
New Literacies ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New London

Trips to the theatre are a regular feature of many high school language arts programs, and yet the experience of watching a play is often significantly different for a teacher than it is for a student. Placing “theatre literacy” within the context of the New London Group’s definition of multiliteracies, and drawing on the work of Lankshear and Knobel as well as audience studies theorists, this article compares how a 17 year-old girl and a 43 year-old English teacher respond to a series of plays, and considers how growing up in a wireless world shapes adolescents’ understanding of live theatre.

Computer Science Meets Education: Natural Language Processing for Automatic Grading of Open-Ended Questions in eBooks

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 1227-1255
Author(s):  
Glenn Gordon Smith ◽  
Robert Haworth ◽  
Slavko Žitnik
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Real World ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Science Professor

We investigated how Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms could automatically grade answers to open-ended inference questions in web-based eBooks. This is a component of research on making reading more motivating to children and to increasing their comprehension. We obtained and graded a set of answers to open-ended questions embedded in a fiction novel written in English. Computer science students used a subset of the graded answers to develop algorithms designed to grade new answers to the questions. The algorithms utilized the story text, existing graded answers for a given question and publicly accessible databases in grading new responses. A computer science professor used another subset of the graded answers to evaluate the students’ NLP algorithms and to select the best algorithm. The results showed that the best algorithm correctly graded approximately 85% of the real-world answers as correct, partly correct, or wrong. The best NLP algorithm was trained with questions and graded answers from a series of new text narratives in another language, Slovenian. The resulting NLP algorithm model was successfully used in fourth-grade language arts classes for providing feedback to student answers on open-ended questions in eBooks.

Middle and High School Implementations of Moodle-Facilitated Blended Instructional Designs

2021 ◽  
pp. 330-360
Author(s):  
Maria Anna K. Sidiropoulou ◽  
Christina Bakoyannis ◽  
Antonios Karampelas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Nontraditional Learning

Web-based technologies such as Moodle (modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment) are regularly used in classrooms and present an effective way to reinforce blended learning of different curricula. Nontraditional learning methodologies such as the i2Flex model provide teachers with a range of options with regards to how to employ a constructivism-based instructional design and facilitate their shift from traditional instructors to effective learning facilitators. Consequently, students become inquirers and discover knowledge in a positive environment where flexibility and blendedness of learning styles optimize the learning outcome. The chapter discusses implementations of Moodle features and the support types with regards to the authors engagement in i2Flex methodology in order to update their practices in relation to enhancing the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework presences in Middle School and Academy Classes of Science, Physics, and Modern Language Arts.

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