US schools spend $5 billion annually on technology. However, despite the educational software market's size and potential impact on students, its fragmented nature makes it difficult for software producers to develop viable education business strategies based on traditional monolithic applications. Component-based software design radically changes this picture by supporting the design and disse...

Special Volume of the Annals of Operations Research The educational testing industry has grown significantly over the past few decades. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 has required states to assess the educational quality at all public schools. Also, most higher education institutions consider scores on standardized tests for admission, and assess general academic achievement with addition...

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Two recent publications report the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on learning and instruction: (a) New Media Consortium’s 2011 Horizon Report (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine & Haywood, 2011), and (b) A Roadmap for Education Technology funded by the National Science Foundation in the USA (to download the report see http://www.cra.org/ccc/edtech.php). Some of t...

Roughly a decade has passed since Carl Kaestle (1993) wrote his well-known Educational Researcher article, “The Awful Reputation of Educational Research.” Despite significant advances in theory and method, it is hard to claim that the situation has improved. Indeed, research in education may be accorded even less respect now than a decade ago. Consider, for example, the following statement from...

Many studies on test anxiety among adult language learners have been performed, while only a few studies have dealt with overall test anxiety. In addition, these studies do not specifically address test anxiety in foreign language learning among elementary school language learners. Thus, this study aims to investigate the level of test anxiety among young learners of English as a foreign langua...

A one of a kind project based on the concept of aging in place is in progress at the University of Missouri (MU). This project required legislation in 1999 and 2001 to be fully realized. A specialized home health agency was developed by the MU Sinclair School of Nursing specifically to help older adults age in place. In 2004, TigerPlace, a specially designed independent living environment, was ...

The research literature shows a core of well-conducted training (teaching intervention) studies that are generally accepted to have shown a causal link between phonological processing skills and reading. So in 1985 the researcher Peter Bryant made this point: "Training studies in which alternative explanatory factors are equated across experimental and control groups, and only the experimental ...