Designing Usable Interventions: Bringing Student Perspectives to the Table

Barry J. Fishman

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 42, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 115–121

This commentary examines the rationale behind the use of participatory approaches to the design and development of educational interventions, particularly with respect to the inclusion of students in the process. The perspectives and claims put...

How Activity Fosters CMC Tool Use in Classrooms: Reinventing Innovations in Local Contexts

Barry J. Fishman

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 11, No. 1 (2000) pp. 3–27

This paper presents a framework for understanding how the varying expertise, attitudes, and classroom activity structures of science teachers influence their students' use of a suite of computer-mediated communications tools in each of their...

Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Computer Sciences

Characteristics of Students Related to Computer-Mediated Communications Activity

Barry J. Fishman

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 32, No. 1 (1999) pp. 73–97

Describes a study of individual differences among high school students that relate to and predict their use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools--e-mail, Usenet news, and a multimedia notebook--to support project-based science learning....

Academic, Social, and Personal Uses of the Internet: Cases of Students from an Urban Latino Classroom

Jeff Kupperman; Barry J. Fishman

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 34, No. 2 (2002) pp. 189–215

Presents cases of four Latino middle school students who gained home Internet access for the first time in connection with an educational technology project set in an urban public school in Detroit. Investigated how the students and their families...

Classroom Restructuring: What Do Teachers Really Need?

Barry J. Fishman; Thomas M. Duffy

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 40, No. 3 (1992) pp. 95–111

Describes the results of a needs analysis conducted to determine the requirements of teachers who wish to restructure their classrooms. The development of Strategic Teaching Frameworks, a hypermedia system to aid teachers and administrators in...

Models of Educational Computing @ Home: New Frontiers for Research on Technology in Learning

Yasmin B. Kafai; Barry J. Fishman; Amy Bruckman

AACE Journal Vol. 10, No. 2 (2002) pp. 52–68

To date, the major emphasis of educational technology researchers has been the development and use of educational technologies within school settings. Noticeably absent has been research and considerations that focus on the home as a computer...

Topics: Schools, Computers, Educational Technology

Examining study attrition: Implications for experimental research on professional development

Beth W. Kubitskey; Richard J. Vath; Heather J. Johnson; Barry J. Fishman; Spyros Konstantopoulos; Gina J. Park

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 28, No. 3 (April 2012) pp. 418–427

As teacher professional development research includes more experimental designs, new challenges arise. We examine the threat of participant attrition as an example of the types of problems researchers face. Counter-intuitively, higher levels of...

Language: English

Using the WWW to Build Learning Communities in K-12

Douglas N. Gordin; Louis M. Gomez; Roy D. Pea; Barry J. Fishman

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol. 2, No. 3 (1996)

Examines the utility of the World Wide Web (WWW) for aiding in the construction of school-based and work-based learning communities. Surveys current offerings on the WWW. Advances proposals for enhancing the architecture of the WWW to facilitate its ...

Linking teacher and student learning to improve professional development in systemic reform

Barry J Fishman; Ronald W Marx; Stephen Best; Revital T Tal

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 19, No. 6 (2003) pp. 643–658

Professional development is key to standards-based reform, yet there is little empirical evidence upon which to base decisions of design or implementation. This paper presents a model of teacher learning and an analytic framework linking...

Language: English