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Individual Differences in Online Computer-based Learning

Gifted and Other Diverse Populations

In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This concept indicated a shift away from the emphasis on communal, classroom teaching, which marked educational practices in the nineteenth century during the advent of widely available public education.
            With the introduction of computer-based online instruction in schools, curricula are able to be fully informed by individual difference, subtly and quickly tracking students’ progress. In these courses, teachers play the role of troubleshooters instead of lecturers. Individual Differences examines a large number of studies on computer-based and online instruction, with special attention paid to gifted students in the fields of mathematics, science, technology, and engineering. Other chapters also focus on a wide variety of student populations: deaf students, American Indian rural students, and underachieving, impoverished students.  


434 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2013

Lecture Notes

Education: Education--General Studies


Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Gifted Students

1. The High Dimensionality of Gifted Students’ Individual Differences in Performance in EPGY’s K-6 Computer-based Mathematics Curriculum

With Kalée Tock

2. Gifted Students’ Individual Differences in EPGY Grades 2-7 “Math-races” Data

With Kalée Tock and Yong Liang

3. Geometric Data Analysis of Gifted Students’ Individual Differences

With Birgitte Le Roux and Henry Rouanet

4. Gifted Students’ Individual Differences in Computer-based Algebra and Precalculus courses

With Constance Stillinger

5. Computer-based Advanced Placement Calculus for Gifted Students

With Tryg Ager

6. Gifted Students’ Individual Differences in Distance-learning Computer-based Calculus and Linear Algebra

With Eric W. Cope

7. Automated Evaluation Methods with Attention to Gifted Students’ Individual Differences – A Case Study of a Computer-based Course in C

With Tammy Rosenthal and Nava Ben-Zvi

8. Gifted Students’ Individual Differences in a Computer-based C Programming Course

With Tammy Rosenthal

9. Gifted Students’ Individual Differences in Distance-learning Computer-based Physics

With Eric Cope

10. Individual Differences in Student Proofs in a Course on Axiomatic Set Theory

Part Two: Other Diverse Populations

11. Individual Differences in Title 1 Students in EPGY’s K-4 Computer-based Mathematics Curriculum

With Kalée Tock

12. Performance Models of American Indian Students on Computer-assisted Instruction in Elementary Mathematics

With J.D. Fletcher and M. Zanotti

13. Models of Individual Trajectories in Computer-assisted Instruction for Deaf Students

With J.D. Fletcher and M. Zanotti

14. Structural Variables Affecting CAI Performance on Arithmetic Word Problems of Disadvantaged and Deaf Students

With Barbara W. Searle and Paul Lorton, Jr.

15. A Survey of Cognition in Handicapped Children

Subject Index

Author Index

 

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