OBJECTIVE We describe the development and examination of the construct validity of the Quality of Life in School (QoLS) questionnaire for elementary-age students. METHOD The QoLS evolved through four phases in which we devised its items and examined its construct validity. Examination of the construct validity, of the final version of the QoLS included 353 students in third through sixth grad...

The growing use of a web-based environment for college education is gradually replacing some aspects of the classroom in a University setting, and it is shifting the long accepted paradigm of understanding how students learn and introduces the question of what influences a student’s decision to learn in an online environment. In a web-based course, students gain a level of interaction with the ...

Active Learning in the classroom domain presents an interesting case for integrating physical and digital affordances. Traditional physical handouts and transparencies are giving way to new digital slides and PCs, but the fully digital systems still lag behind the physical artifacts in many aspects such as readability and tangibility. To better understand the interplay between physical and digi...

The physical environment in the classroom may have an effect on comfort index for Special Education Integration Program (SEIP). A quantitative study was conducted to determine teachers' and SEIP's levels, as well ideas improvement which were relevant needs. Purposive sampling has been used select 80 SEIP teacher samples. questionnaire this modified from Physical Classroom Environment Inventory ...

As intelligent environments become more focused on supporting human activity, we see a growing need for the computer to ascertain users’ location and activity, be it for face detection, gesture recognition, or even simple tracking. To support such applications, a robust tracking algorithm is required. A camera tracking algorithm for a pan and tilt camera is proposed, that is robust to moderatel...

This study details the initial development of the Responsive Environmental Assessment for Classroom Teachers (REACT). REACT was developed as a questionnaire to evaluate student perceptions of the classroom teaching environment. Researchers engaged in an iterative process to develop, field test, and analyze student responses on 100 rating-scale items. Participants included 1,465 middle school st...

In construction science, classroom oriented education remains the preferred mode of teaching. Alternative methods such as field trips, use of 3D drawings, and physical models often supplement and enhance the understanding of students. In addition to the risks involved with field trips, designated sites may not be at the particular stage of construction during the academic semester, or the const...

Notwithstanding broad utility of COPs (classroom observation protocols), there has been limited documentation of the psychometric properties of even the most popular COPs. This study attempted to fill this void by closely examining the item and domain-level IRR (inter-rater reliability) of a COP that was used in a federally funded striving readers program. A combination of reliability measures ...

This chapter addresses the complex question of what makes a classroom environment motivating. It will be argued that in order to understand the psychological tapestry of classroom life, we need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and draw on research findings from a number of different areas within the social sciences, such as group dynamics, motivational psychology, educational studies, and...

background: the aim of the study was to analyze the reliability of the korean version of the news and to investigate the relationship between walking and environmental factors by gender. methods: a total of 1407 korean adults, aged 20-59 yr, participated in the study. data were collected between sep 2013 and oct 2013. to examine the test-retest reliability, 281 of the 1407 participants were ask...