Since World War II, efforts to improve schools have numbered in the thousands. Most efforts have concentrated on improving the curriculum materials used in schools or on "training" teachers in new instructional methods. Many of these efforts have gone under the banner of "building instructional capacity," a term that for decades has been featured prominently in conversations about educational r...

Subject This thesis deals with the development, implementation and evaluation of an instructional intervention aimed at integrating inquiry activities in a computer-based information technology environment into high school physics instruction. The instructional intervention comprises of an instructional method and learning materials to scaffold active processes of applying, strengthening and ex...

School districts across America have responded to the accountability movement by increasing professional development activities, including the utilization of onsite coaching strategies for educators. But who is mentoring the mentors? This descriptive study in one Western state found that 56% of instructional coaches reported they did not have a mentor, yet 90% of respondents thought mentoring w...

The use of video in distance education courses has a long tradition, with many colleges and universities having been delivering distance education courses with video since the 80’s using the Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) and cable television. With the emergence of the Internet and the increased access bandwidths from private homes to the Internet, the delivery of distance educat...

This thesis deals with the development, implementation and evaluation of an instructional intervention aimed at integrating inquiry activities in a computerbased information technology environment into high school physics instruction. The instructional intervention comprises of an instructional method and learning materials to scaffold active processes of applying, strengthening and extending p...

Many businesses, organizations, and social institutions use websites to support their main tasks. The various benefits of the website must be supported by security aspects in order avoid hacking. Cyber attacks or hackers can do dangerous things like get more valuable data. So it is necessary test a good find out level vulnerability application features it. A suitable for where distributed over ...

This bridge study evaluated the effects of contingency-specifying instructions (CSIs) and incomplete instructions (IIs) in terms of establishing instructional control of appropriate behavior. Results suggested that instructional control and maintenance were achieved with CSIs but not with IIs. Results are discussed in terms of the potential use of instructional control in the maintenance of app...