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EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report
"The report presents aggregated data and time trends through more than 100 figures and tables and accompanying descriptive text in five areas relevant to planning and managing IT in higher education: IT Organization, Staffing, and Planning; IT Financing and Management; Faculty and Student Computing; Networking and Security; and Information Systems. Appendices include a brief historical context, a list of participating campuses, the 2008 survey instrument, a glossary of terms from the survey, and a crosswalk between survey questions and figures and tables in the report."
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Study Finds Educational Videos and Games Prepare Low-Income Preschoolers for Kindergarten
"Preschool children developed early reading skills when their teachers used videos and interactive games from public television shows in the classroom, according to a new study."
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ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology
"The ECAR [study] is based on quantitative data from a spring 2009 survey of 30,616 freshmen and seniors at 103 four-year institutions and students at 12 two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 62 students at 4 institutions; and review of qualitative data from written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2009 study also includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices."
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Research shows rewards reduce intrinsic motivation
Several studies show that offering rewards to pupils reduces their spontaneous-activity levels.
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Latest NAEP math scores show mixed results
"After two decades of slow and steady progress in math, U.S. fourth-graders made no improvement over 2007, according to nationwide test scores released Oct. 14. Eighth-graders made headway, posting gains for yet another year."
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Arizona expands K-12 online learning
"For the past 10 years, a pilot program allowed 14 Arizona districts, including Mesa, and charter schools to offer online courses to about 15,000 K-12 students.
Arizona's 227 school districts and 500 charter schools can create their own online program or buy one from a commercial company. Schools can offer online classes to their own students or any student in the state."
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Online High Schools Test Students' Social Skills
"As online high schools spread, educators are ramping up efforts to counter the social isolation that some students experience. At the same time, sociologists and child psychologists are examining how online schooling might hinder, or help, the development of social skills."
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Study: Students want more online learning
"Despite a growing interest in online learning among students, the availability of online classes in K-12 schools and districts hasn't kept pace with the demand, according to a new report from Project Tomorrow and Blackboard Inc.
According to the report, more than 40 percent of sixth through 12th graders have researched or demonstrated interest in taking a course online, but only 10 percent have actually taken an online course through their school. "
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Grants power research on gaming for education
"A research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won $4.5 million in National Science Foundation grants to study the use of computer games for learning.
The largest of the grants, for $3.5 million, will create a research consortium of three universities to develop technology that will let computers teach real-world problem solving."
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Yale researchers examine online accreditation
Yale Law School researchers will team up with a tuition-free online university to study how online higher education is perceived worldwide and document what it takes for internet-based institutions to achieve accreditation.
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Training key to schools' digital media use
Educators need to embrace Web 2.0 technologies in schools, but they should be given adequate professional development to ensure they learn the proper ways to engage their students through digital media, said experts at a Sept. 21 Capitol Hill briefing.
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Tech helps students adopt good study habits
"Purdue University is using educational technology--and online "signals"--to warn some students that their grades are dropping, offer study-habit suggestions, and provide positive reinforcement to students who are acing quizzes and exams.
Signals doesn't just account for grades on homework assignments and exams, campus IT officials said. The program is a data-mining system that examines more than 20 factors that influence student grades, including whether each student is consistently reading online assignments, completing web-based practice tests, and putting in extra time for tutoring sessions and online class discussions with faculty members."
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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
"Over the 12-year span, the report found 99 studies in which there were quantitative comparisons of online and classroom performance for the same courses. The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile."
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