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Computer-Based Practical Exams in an Applied Information Technology Course
C. Paul Newhouse
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 45, No. 3 (2013) pp. 263–286
Worldwide, fewer and fewer work tasks are done using paper and pen, yet most high-stakes assessment in schools continues to use this primitive technology. This paper reports on one component of a project investigating the use of digital technologies ...
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Using Digital Technologies to Improve the Authenticity of Performance Assessment for High-Stakes Purposes
C Paul Newhouse
Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 24, No. 1 (2015) pp. 17–33
This paper reports on the outcomes of a three-year study investigating the use of digital technologies to increase the authenticity of high-stakes summative assessment in four Western Australian senior secondary courses. The study involved 82...
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Using Digital Representations of Practical Production Work for Summative Assessment
C Paul Newhouse
Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice Vol. 21, No. 2 (2014) pp. 205–220
This paper presents the findings of the first phase of a three-year study investigating the efficacy of the digitisation of creative practical work as digital portfolios for the purposes of high-stakes summative assessment. At the same time the...
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Transforming Schooling with Support from Portable Computing
C Paul Newhouse
Australian Educational Computing Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 2008) pp. 19–23
For over two decades educators have hailed the possibility of harnessing the capabilities of portable computing to transform Australian schools into places where students experience powerful learning environments, relevant to the 21st Century. For...
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Learning with Portable Digital Devices in Australian Schools: 20 Years On!
C Paul Newhouse
Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 41, No. 4 (September 2014) pp. 471–483
Portable computing technologies such as laptops, tablets, smartphones, wireless networking, voice/stylus input, and plug and play peripheral devices, appear to offer the means of finally realising much of the long heralded vision for computers to...
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Applying the Concerns-based Adoption Model to Research on Computers in Classrooms
C Paul Newhouse
Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 33, No. 5 (2001)
The concerns-based adoption model (CBAM) was used to analyze results of a study examining the use of student-owned portable computers at a secondary school. CBAM was found to be very useful in explaining the actions of teachers and in providing a...
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Using IT to assess IT: Towards greater authenticity in summative performance assessment
C. Paul Newhouse
Computers & Education Vol. 56, No. 2 (February 2011) pp. 388–402
An applied Information Technology (IT) course that is assessed using pen and paper may sound incongruous but it is symptomatic of the state of high-stakes assessment in jurisdictions such as Western Australia. Whereas technology has permeated most...
Language: English
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Digital Forms of Performance Assessment
C Paul Newhouse
Australian Educational Computing Vol. 23, No. 2 (December 2008) pp. 7–11
In many ways assessment drives the curriculum and often pedagogy at all levels of education. In a world where it is more important what you can do with what you know rather than just what you know, it is critical that practical performance is...
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A Study of the Use of Pairwise Comparison in the Context of Social Online Moderation
Pina Tarricone; C. Paul Newhouse
Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 43, No. 3 (2016) pp. 273–288
Traditional moderation of student assessments is often carried out with groups of teachers working face-to-face in a specified location making judgements concerning the quality of representations of achievement. This traditional model has relied...
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Using Digital Technologies and Contemporary Psychometrics in the Assessment of Performance on Complex Practical Tasks
C Paul Newhouse; Joseph N. Njiru
Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 18, No. 2 (July 2009) pp. 221–234
There is a critical need for research into the use of digital technologies to support the assessment of performance on complex tasks in schools. This paper reports on a component of a pilot study aimed at investigating the use of digital forms of...
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Ergonomic and Anthropometric Considerations of the Use of Computers in Schools by Adolescents
Anna M. Jermolajew; C Paul Newhouse
Australian Educational Computing Vol. 18, No. 2 (December 2003) pp. 3–12
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in the provision of computing facilities in schools for student use. However, there is concern that the development of these facilities has often given little regard to the ergonomics of the design...
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Reflecting on Teaching Practices Using Digital Video Representation in Teacher Education
C Paul Newhouse; Jenny Lane; Claire Brown
Australian Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 32, No. 3 (2007)
This paper reports on the perceptions of teacher education student of the value of using digital tools to analyse video-based information on the practice of teachers in classrooms. This strategy was employed to address a dilemma in providing...