Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling (open access)

Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling

Article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college youth.
Date: September 5, 2022
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Gibson, David; Christensen, Rhonda; Trevisan, Ottavia & Carter, Morgan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model (open access)

Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model

Article studies information and communication technology (ICT) in tertiary education. This article is part of the special collection: Educational Psychology & Counseling, Educational Psychology.
Date: December 21, 2020
Creator: Spector, J. Michael; Islam, A. Y. M. Atiquil; Gu, Xiaoqing & Crook, Charles
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight (open access)

Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight

Article provides assemblage maps showing the elements related to creativity, innovation, and creativity and innovation. These assemblage maps highlight virtual and dynamic flight lines that represent potentially active components with varying intensity and direction, which provides a tool for managers and practitioners to identify potentialities for future predictions better.
Date: September 26, 2022
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M. & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives (open access)

Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives

Article examines K-12 students and parents in the United States’ experiences and challenges during the sudden shift to distance learning during the COVID19 crisis. This article is part of the special issue: Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19.
Date: 2020
Creator: Simpson, Jenna Conan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distributed Learning for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science at Diverse Universities (open access)

Distributed Learning for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science at Diverse Universities

Data management plan for the grant, "Distributed Learning for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science at Diverse Universities." Here, we propose to expand on our previous NSF-supported work in developing a suite of courses in data science (DS) that were taught across a network of 4 undergraduate institutions in a distributed learning (DL) format. The current proposal seeks to expand the size and diversity of our network while adapting the advanced distributed learning (ADL) technology of the U.S. military to an academic setting to harness the power of AI in tailoring optimal learning experiences for individual students.
Date: 2022-10-01/2025-09-30
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethical Challenges of Using Virtual Environments in the Assessment and Treatment of Psychopathological Disorders (open access)

Ethical Challenges of Using Virtual Environments in the Assessment and Treatment of Psychopathological Disorders

This article discusses ethical issues involved in the clinical use of novel technologies.
Date: January 20, 2021
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
From design to impact: a phenomenological study of HumanMOOC participants’ learning and implementation into practice (open access)

From design to impact: a phenomenological study of HumanMOOC participants’ learning and implementation into practice

Article investigates Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) impact on participants' actual practices.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Robinson, Heather; Kilgore, Whitney; Prusko, Patrice Torcivia & Al-Freih, Maha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Future Directions for digital Literacy Fluency using Cognitive Flexibility Research: A Review of Selected Digital Literacy Paradigms and Theoretical Frameworks (open access)

Future Directions for digital Literacy Fluency using Cognitive Flexibility Research: A Review of Selected Digital Literacy Paradigms and Theoretical Frameworks

Article discusses how as learners engage, test, and apply new subject knowledge, they often expend their cognitive capacity on the technological tools designed to capture their learning progress and outcomes. The author's research explores the value of developing digital literacy to improve learners’ cognitive flexibility by decreasing technological cognitive load and increasing learning fluency.
Date: November 21, 2022
Creator: Caton, Amy; Bradshaw-Ward, Danita; Kinshuk & Savenye, Wilhelmina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact of high-immersion virtual reality on foreign language anxiety (open access)

The impact of high-immersion virtual reality on foreign language anxiety

Authors of the article assert that public speaking, especially in a foreign language, is associated with increased anxiety. The authors found that VR technology had a positive effect on practicing public speaking in a foreign language, the research findings have practical implications for professionals and curriculum designers in various domains where public speaking skills are essential.
Date: October 4, 2023
Creator: Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina & Gruber, Alice
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Student Learning While Decreasing Bias in Teaching Through Simulation (open access)

Improving Student Learning While Decreasing Bias in Teaching Through Simulation

Data management plan for the grant, "Improving Student Learning While Decreasing Bias in Teaching Through Simulation." Research on the simEquity project which will implement a scalable model for developing equitable, culturally responsive teaching practices through simSchool, a simulated teaching environment. The project will identify best practices to help teachers recognize and mitigate implicit biases that often impact student success. The project team will iteratively develop and test a Teaching without Bias curriculum and an AI-driven set of bias reduction tools that can be added to existing simulation instruction modules.
Date: 2021-10-01/2024-09-30
Creator: Christensen, Rhonda & Knezek, Gerald
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model (open access)

A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model

The article focuses on a systematic review of current team effectiveness frameworks and models. A narrative-based method for theorizing was utilized to develop a new MTS team effectiveness framework. This research contributes to the MTS literature by providing a new formula for team effectiveness at both the team level (team effectiveness formula) and the MTS level (MTS team effectiveness formula).
Date: April 19, 2020
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M.; Ali, Zain & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paradigm Shift Toward Digital Neuropsychology and High-Dimensional Neuropsychological Assessments: Review (open access)

Paradigm Shift Toward Digital Neuropsychology and High-Dimensional Neuropsychological Assessments: Review

Article reviews opportunities for novel brain-behavior characterizations. Emphasis is placed on the increasing concern of neuropsychology with these topics and the need for development in these areas to maintain relevance as a scientific discipline and advance scientific developments.
Date: December 16, 2020
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D. & Duffield, Tyler
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020 (open access)

A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020

This article provides a content analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020 aiming to disclose how artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to the education sector and explore the potential research trends and challenges of AI in education. The content analysis shows that the research questions can be classified into development layer (classification, matching, recommendation, and deep learning), application layer (feedback, reasoning, and adaptive learning), and integration layer (affection computing, role-playing, immersive learning, and gamification).
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu Yung; Istenic, Andreja; Spector, Michael et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scaling Students' Self-Efficacy on Machine Translation Post-Editing: Psychometric Properties of the Scale and Their Associations (open access)

Scaling Students' Self-Efficacy on Machine Translation Post-Editing: Psychometric Properties of the Scale and Their Associations

Article describes how Machine Translation Post-Editing has emerged as a productivity-enhancing practice in the language service industry, where human editors correct the output of machine translation systems. this research paper aims to assess students' self-efficacy in translation learning, specifically in the context of MTPE, and explore the factor structure, psychometric properties, and internal associations of their self-efficacy.
Date: November 1, 2023
Creator: Li, Qing & Huang, Tai-yi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single Source - University of North Texas Professional Development Dissemination Collaboration (open access)

Single Source - University of North Texas Professional Development Dissemination Collaboration

Data management plan for the grant "Single Source - University of North Texas Professional Development Dissemination Collaboration."
Date: 2021-05-24/2022-05-24
Creator: Knezek, Gerald
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want (open access)

Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want

This article is a review of literature for skills comprised within the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria determined 26 topics necessary for the entry-level and continued success of engineers. The findings suggest that although entry-level engineers have proficiency in all of these ABET required skills, the entry-level engineers were not meeting the level of importance expressed by the organization for 24 of these 26 skills.
Date: October 14, 2021
Creator: Hirudayaraj, Malar; Baker, Rose M.; Baker, Francie & Eastman, Mike
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information (open access)

The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information

Article exploring how information and knowledge are absorbed by utilizing Constructor Theory and the Substrate-Independence Theory.
Date: November 30, 2021
Creator: Turner, John R.; Snowden, Dave & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A systematic literature review of personalized learning terms (open access)

A systematic literature review of personalized learning terms

Article providing a review of the recent research literature on personalized learning as technology is changing how learning can be effectively personalized. The emphasis is on the terms used to characterize learning as those can suggest a framework for personalized and will eventually be used in meta-analyses of research on personalized learning.
Date: October 23, 2020
Creator: Shemshack, Atikah & Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching and Learning with Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlighting the Need for Micro-Meso-Macro Alignments (open access)

Teaching and Learning with Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlighting the Need for Micro-Meso-Macro Alignments

This article covers the challenges brought about for teachers and learners from transitioning to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors reflect on these challenges based on discussions at EDUsummIT2019 in Quebec about the theme “Learners and learning contexts: New alignments for the digital age." Informed by theoretical conceptualization and empirical evidence the authors identify micro-meso-macro alignments that need to be in place to move education into the digital age: alignments for quality learning contexts, alignments in support for teachers, and alignments through partnerships.
Date: September 20, 2021
Creator: Voogt, Joke & Knezek, Gerald
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Time-Compressed Audio on Attention, Meditation, Cognitive Load, and  Learning (open access)

Time-Compressed Audio on Attention, Meditation, Cognitive Load, and Learning

This article presents a study that examined how three auditory lectures delivered at different speeds – normal (1.0x), fast (1.5x) and very fast (3.0x) speeds – affected graduate students’ attention, cognitive load, and learning.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Lin, Lin; Yang, Xue; An, Yunjo; Yang, Xiaozhe; Wen, Yi & Cheng, Pei-Yu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Assistive Technology Services (open access)

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Assistive Technology Services

This article is an introduction to the special issue Assistive Technology Services During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was created to provide a historical record of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of assistive technology services in schools.
Date: 2022
Creator: Edyburn, Dave & Howard, Erin L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library