Curriculum Innovation Involving Subject Integration, Field-Based Learning Environments and Information Technology: A Longitudinal Case Study of Student Attitudes, Motivation, and Performance

David H. McKinnon

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1997 (March 1997)

The adoption and impact of curriculum innovation are most commonly researched in terms of roles that teachers and school administrators are expected to play. A study in New Zealand focused on the responses of students. This integrated studies...

PD and ICTs: We Have a Ways to Go

David H. McKinnon; Lena Danaia

Australian Educational Computing Vol. 20, No. 1 (June 2005) pp. 24–28

The last 20 years have seen immense gains in computing power available to schools and a wide variety of useful educational software and services. Professional development in the computer area, however, has not resulted in the widespread use of...

Inquiry-Based Educational Design for Large-Scale High School Astronomy Projects Using Real Telescopes

Michael Fitzgerald; David H. McKinnon; Lena Danaia

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 24, No. 6 (2015) pp. 747–760

In this paper, we outline the theory behind the educational design used to implement a large-scale high school astronomy education project. This design was created in response to the realization of ineffective educational design in the initial early ...

Distance Education for the Gifted and Talented: An Interactive Design Model

David H. McKinnon; C J. Patrick Nolan

Roeper Review Vol. 21, No. 4 (1999) pp. 320–25

Discusses development of an Australian distance-education cosmology course that employs an interactive design model and an extensive communication system. The way the model is used to organized, sequence, and deliver the course is explained....

Enhancing the Middle in a New Zealand Secondary School: Integration, Experiential Learning, and Computer Use

C J. Patrick Nolan; David H. McKinnon

International Journal of Educational Reform Vol. 12, No. 3 (2003) pp. 230–243

New Zealand school education through the middle years appears to be in crisis. Sutton (2000) reports that students in the age range from 13-15 years (Years 9 and 10 of schooling) experience the crisis most poignantly. Their teachers increasingly say ...

Helping Them Understand: Astronomy for Grades 5 and 6

David H. McKinnon; Helen Geissinger; Lena Danaia

Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual Vol. 2002, No. 1 (2002) pp. 263–275

This article reports on research into learning gains made by children aged 10-12 when they studied astronomy using learning activities in a constructivist environment consolidated by access through the Internet to a scientific-grade telescope. Young ...

Topics: Internet

A Longitudinal Study of Student Attitudes toward Computers: Resolving an Attitude Decay Paradox

David H. McKinnon; C J. Patrick Nolan; Kenneth E. Sinclair

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 32, No. 3 (2000) pp. 325–35

Describes results of an integrated curriculum project in New Zealand that generated paradoxical results regarding student motivation and attitudes toward computer use during junior high school, where attitudes became less positive. Examines...

Using Smartphone Camera Technology to Explore Stellar Parallax: Method, Results, and Reactions

Michael T. Fitzgerald; David H. McKinnon; Lena Danaia; Sandra Woodward

Astronomy Education Review Vol. 10, No. 1 (December 2011) pp. 10108–1

Stellar parallax is a concept that is dealt with infrequently in the high school classroom other than by qualitative consideration of stereoscopic parallax and argument by analogy. Use of stellar parallax for distance determination can be difficult...

Implementing computerised school information systems: Case studies from New Zealand

C.J.Patrick Nolan; Deborah A. Ayres; Sandy Dunn; David H. McKinnon

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 25, No. 4 (1996) pp. 335–350

This chapter develops a framework for conceptualizing the implementation of computerized school information systems (SISs). The framework is used to carry out an in-depth examination of the implementation strategies employed by three schools which...

Language: English

Measuring preservice teacher self-efficacy in music and visual arts: Validation of an amended science teacher efficacy belief instrument

Julia E. Morris; Geoffrey W. Lummis; David H. McKinnon; John Heyworth

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 64, No. 1 (May 2017) pp. 1–11

The Science Teacher Efficacy Belief Instrument has been a widely reported measure of teachers' personal efficacy and outcome efficacy beliefs. This pilot study examined if the instrument could be amended for use in The Arts learning area. A small...

Language: English