Most previous early technology learning research has reported children's responses to short, intensive teacher-directed topics in diverse settings. Few studies have tracked children's sustained investigations of their ...

The authors have previously reported the effectiveness of using self and peer assessment to improve learning outcomes by providing opportunities to practise, assess and provide feedback on students¿ learning and development. ...

Abstract: This paper identifies the most commonly cited conferences, journals and books of the 43 papers within the first three ICER proceedings. A large array of conferences, journals, and books were cited. However, only ...

Abstract: The way in which novice programmers learn to write code is of considerable interest to computing education researchers. One research approach to understanding how beginners acquire their programming abilities has ...

There is a reported competency gap between the teamwork skills required by employers and those developed by engineering students during their undergraduate courses. It is important for university courses to develop ...

The key resource for universities is their academic and general staff (Hoare, 1995, �2); yet, little attention has been paid to the work of general staff (Conway, 2000; Szekeres, 2004; Whitchurch, 2004). Nevertheless, ...

The purpose of the study was to identify types of visual thinking from the use of graphic notations in compositions, and their relationship to creativity. Four sets of data were collected from Australian and Korean ...

Design pedagogy at tertiary institutions presents students with the task of decoding discourse in many different forms. These include written texts, some of which many students find unrelated to the `real¿ talk about ...

Collaboration skills are defined as the set of skills and capabilities required to work effectively within and across groups to achieve group goals. The development of these skills are assumed but not taught directly or ...