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Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Meeting

November 1999

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Number of papers: 10

  1. An Assessment of Technology Classroom Environments in Chinese Universities

    Jiexiu Li & Russell West

    Technology education has been listed as a new basic requirement in the curriculum for graduate students at universities and colleges in China for seven years. The purpose of this study is to... More

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  2. Faculty Attitudes about the Use of Technology in the College Classroom

    Steve Marvin, Kathy K. Franklin, Jo Sykes Chesser, Rob Edleston, Patricia Edwards-Schafer, Christy Oberste, I J. Routen & Tricia Satkowski-Harper

    The purpose of this study was to explore faculty attitudes about the use of technology in the metropolitan university classroom. Researchers conducted four "electronic" focus group sessions with... More

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  3. Internet Acceptable User Policies in Alabama School Systems

    Feng Sun & James E. McLean

    The purpose of this study was to determine the current status of and need for acceptable use policies (AUPs) for students' use of the Internet in Alabama school systems. Alabama superintendents... More

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  4. Library Anxiety among International Students

    Qun G. Jiao & Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie

    This study of 125 non-native English-speaking students at a Northeastern university investigated the prevalence of the dimensions of library anxiety among this population. Participants were... More

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  5. Distance Interaction through the World Wide Web in Graduate Teacher Education: A Follow-Up Analysis of Student Perceptions

    Jay C. Thompson & Frederick W. Nay

    This study, a follow-up to an earlier study (reported in the 1998 "Mid-Western Educational Researcher" v10 n4) used the World Wide Web and a "Class Page" to evaluate interaction strategies in a... More

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  6. Electronic Decision-Making: A Potential New Methodology for Educational Research

    James E. McLean, M Khris McAlister, Julio C. Rivera & Scott W. Snyder

    An electronic decision making process was studied as an approach to an educational problem. Data suggested that students beginning kindergarten in large southern urban areas were not prepared... More

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  7. A Comparison of Attitudes toward Computer Use of Preservice and Inservice Teachers

    Kaye Pepper

    This study examined whether there was a difference in the attitudes toward computer use of preservice and inservice teachers. The Computer Literacy Attitude Survey, a survey which reflected... More

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  8. Utilzing Networked Computer Workstations To Conduct Electronic Focus Groups

    Catherine Lowery & Kathy K. Franklin

    Researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock conducted a study of faculty attitudes about the use of technology in the college classroom using electronic focus group sessions. This... More

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  9. Expert Systems as a Mindtool To Facilitate Mental Model Learning

    Susan Dale Mason-Mason

    Expert systems are computer programs that are designed to advise or assist users by storing the knowledge of human experts and applying the computer's mathematical ability to search and sort this... More

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  10. Meta-Analysis of Equivalence of Computerized and P&P Tests on Ability Measures

    Jong-Pil Kim

    This study was conducted to investigate the equivalence of scores from paper-and-pencil (P&P) tests and computerized tests (CTs) through meta-analysis of primary studies using both kinds of tests. ... More

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