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Reading Research Text Search, Pt 1

By Jared Stein | Published: August 18, 2011
Began searching for an appropriate core text for reading research. Began with Wikipedia but ended up migrating to Connexions. Have downloaded and upacked several EPUB files from Connexions and re-uploaded to own server. Will need to edit, hyperlink, and format docs. Also analyzed one text for readability using Flesch with varying results. Will post those [...]
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To have real-world value…

By Jared Stein | Published: March 21, 2011
“According to many educational researchers and contrary to the arguments of those pushing for experimental research as the gold standard, the messiness of real-world practice must be recognized, understood, and integrated as part of theoretical claims if the claims are to have real-world explanatory value. From this perspective, examining teaching and learning as isolated variables [...]
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Three Articles on Mouse-Based Tracking of User Behavior

By admin | Published: January 20, 2011
I’m already familiar with a fair amount of research on eye-gaze tracking, but have been interested in the fairly recent recognition of a correlation between mouse movement and eye gaze. Such a discovery would mean that user eye movement can be estimated without costly and restrictive eye tracking equipment, and research can be conducted on [...]
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DE Research Week 1 Readings

By admin | Published: January 4, 2011
Anglin, G. J., & Morrison, G. R. (2000). An analysis of distance education research: Implications for the instructional technologist. Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 1(3), 189-194. Notes History of DE: 3 generations: correspondence, recorded media, networked communication. Defining DE: Keegan: separation of student and instructor, provisions for two-way communication, possibility of meetings. Simonson, Schlosser, Hanson: [...]
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3 Articles Orbiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
I’ve posted these annotations to the class’s Google Doc for Jon Mott’s IPT 692R course, but wanted to archive them here as well. These 3 article annotations seemed relevant in the discussion of Bloom’s 2 sigma problem: Cohen, A. (1987). Instructional Alignment: Searching for a Magic Bullet. Educational Researcher, 16:8, 16-20. Cohen reviews and expands [...]
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Revisiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 10, 2010
Bloom, B. (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring,” Educational Researcher, 13:6(4-16). Bloom’s 2 sigma problem confronts educators and researchers with the challenge of improving student performance/learning outcomes by 2 sigma based on a combination of 2 or 3 significant variables in instruction, learner, environment, [...]
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Questions re. solitude and learning

By Jared Stein | Published: September 15, 2009
I take my very broad initial question (“What impact does solitude have on learning?”) from my passion consideration and explore it
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