Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
November 1999
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 10
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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