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Smolinsky, Lawrence; Marx, Brian D.; Olafsson, Gestur; Ma, Yanxia A. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
Computer-based testing is an expanding use of technology offering advantages to teachers and students. We studied Calculus II classes for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors using different testing modes. Three sections with 324 students employed: paper-and-pencil testing, computer-based testing, and both. Computer tests gave…
Descriptors: Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing, Paper (Material), Calculus
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Ding, Huiling – Written Communication, 2008
This study reports about a yearlong study of the initiation of novice grant writers to the activity system of National Institutes of Health grant applications. It investigates the use of cognitive apprenticeship within writing classrooms and that of social apprenticeship in laboratories, programs, departments, and universities, which introduced…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Apprenticeships
Klecker, Beverly; Loadman, William E. – 1996
In Ohio, Venture Capital grants are available to schools to support their school-improvement efforts. This paper presents findings of a study that examined building principals' openness to change in the 307 Ohio schools with Venture Capital Grants. The 307 principals received by mail the Inventory of Change in Organizational Culture (Dunham and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Cognitive Processes