The Effects of Cooperative Learning and Learner Control on High- and Average-Ability Students

Simon Hooper

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 41, No. 2 (1993) pp. 5–18

Describes a study that examined the effects of cooperative versus individual computer-based instruction on the performance of high- and average-ability fourth-grade students. Effects of learner and program control are investigated; student attitudes ...

Effects of Peer Interaction during Computer-Based Mathematics Instruction

Simon Hooper

Journal of Educational Research Vol. 85, No. 3 (1992) pp. 180–89

Effects of group and individualized mathematics instruction were investigated in high and average ability elementary students, noting the impact of ability grouping on achievement. Students instructed in pairs scored higher on posttests than those...

Cooperative Learning and Computer-Based Instruction

Simon Hooper

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 40, No. 3 (1992) pp. 21–38

Examines the origins of small-group learning and distinguishes cooperative learning from other methods. Highlights include assessing the effects of cooperative learning, including cognitive effects; designing effective software for cooperative...

The Effects of Aptitude Composition on Achievement during Small Group Learning

Simon Hooper

Journal of Computer-Based Instruction Vol. 16, No. 3 (1989) pp. 102–9

Discussion of the effects of group aptitudes on achievement during small group learning highlights two studies that examined the effects of group composition on high and low aptitude college students. Heterogeneous and homogeneous aptitude groups...

Persistence and Small Group Interaction

Simon Hooper

Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1994 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Sponsored by the Research and Theory Division (1994)

The effects of persistence on students' ability to interact and learn in cooperative learning groups was studied, and the effect of collaboration on students' attitudes toward their partners was assessed. Participants were 138 sixth graders in a...

The Effects of Persistence and Small Group Interaction during Computer-Based Instruction

Simon Hooper

Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 19, No. 2 (2003) pp. 211–20

Compared the effects of grouping sixth grade students with different levels of persistence on their ability to learn in cooperative learning groups while working at the computer. Reports results that indicated that average persisters interacted more ...

A taxonomy for instructional design

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3137–3139

Educational uses of technology, indeed pedagogy in general, often remain mired in traditional notions of instruction that focus on information delivery. A diverse range of methods are available for instruction; these choices have been expanded by...

Topics: Instructional Design, Educational Technology

The Effects of Cooperative Learning and Learner Control on Students' Achievement, Option Selections, and Attitudes

Chanchai Singhanayok; Simon Hooper

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 46, No. 2 (1998) pp. 17–33

Investigates the effects of studying alone or in cooperative-learning groups on the performance of high and low achievers, using either learner- or program-controlled computer-based instruction. Participants were 92 sixth-grade students. Results...

The Learning Software Awards Competition

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) p. 764

Integrating Technology in Classrooms: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)

This paper considers the potential of technology in education, examines what it means to "integrate" technology in the classroom, outlines barriers to technology integration, and considers several implications for effective technology use. It begins ...

Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Learning: Effects of Text, Context, and Gender on Listening Comprehension and Motivation

Solveig Jakobsdottir; Simon Hooper

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 43, No. 4 (1995) pp. 43–59

Examines three factors that influence student learning and motivation of beginner foreign-language listening skills: text, context, and gender. Studies responses of fifth graders to computer-based foreign-language learning. Results indicate that...

The Changing Face of Knowledge

Simon Hooper; Brad Hokanson

Social Education Vol. 64, No. 1 (2000) pp. 28–31

Explores how technology can provide students with cognitive tools that can be used to create knowledge. Defines knowledge and addresses the processes that mediate knowledge construction. Summarizes the conceptions of technology and how technology...

The Effects of Group Composition on Achievement, Interaction, and Learning Efficiency during Computer-Based Cooperative Instruction

Simon Hooper; Michael J. Hannafin

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 39, No. 3 (1991) pp. 27–40

Describes a study of sixth and seventh grade students that investigated the effects of cooperative group composition, student ability, and learning accountability on achievement, interaction, and instructional efficiency during computer-based...

Cooperative Learning at the Computer: Ability Based Strategies for Implementation

Simon Hooper; Michael J. Hannafin

This study compared the achievement of low and high ability eighth grade students working cooperatively during computer-based instruction. Students were grouped either homogeneously or heterogeneously on ability, and received identical instruction...

Cooperative CBI: The Effects of Heterogeneous versus Homogeneous Grouping on the Learning of Progressively Complex Concepts

Simon Hooper; Michael J. Hannafin

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 4, No. 4 (1988) pp. 413–24

Describes study that compared the achievement of high and low ability eighth-grade students working cooperatively during computer-based instruction. Homogeneous and heterogeneous grouping based on ability are explained, posttest results are analyzed,...

An Integrated Framework for CBI Screen Design and Layout

Michael J. Hannafin; Simon Hooper

Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 5, No. 3 (1989) pp. 155–65

Discusses the importance of screen design in computer-based instruction (CBI), and presents a framework for screen design decisions based on the ROPES (Retrieving, Orienting, Presenting, Encoding, and Sequencing) meta-model for instructional design. ...

Keeping Kids Safe from a Design Perspective: Ethical and Legal Guidelines for Designing a Video-Based App for Children

Janet Mannheimer Zydney; Simon Hooper

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 59, No. 2 (March 2015) pp. 40–46

Educators can use video to gain invaluable information about their students. A concern is that collecting videos online can create an increased security risk for children. The purpose of this article is to provide ethical and legal guidelines for...

Learning the ROPES of Instructional Design: Guidelines for Emerging Interactive Technologies

Simon Hooper; Michael J. Hannafin

Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 7 (1988) pp. 14–18

Guidelines presented for the design of instruction using interactive technologies are based on theory and research in learning, instruction, and/or media development. Also explained is a meta-model, ROPES, which highlights retrieval of information,...

The Effects of Visual and Verbal Coding Mnemonics on Learning Chinese Characters in Computer-Based Instruction

Mei-Liang Amy Kuo; Simon Hooper

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 52, No. 3 (2003) pp. 23–38

The effects of different approaches to learning Chinese characters were investigated. Ninety-two high-school students were randomly assigned to one of five treatment groups: translation, verbal mnemonics, visual mnemonics, dual coding mnemonics, or...

Avenue ASL: Transforming Language Assessment and Learning through Networked Video Integration

Simon Hooper; Charles Miller; George Veletsianos

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3919–3924

Avenue ASL, an integrated software environment to capture, evaluate, self-assess, and manage American Sign Language (ASL) performance, is being developed at the University of Minnesota to improve student language learning and increase the efficiency ...

Topics: Assessment, Software, Students, Languages, Video

Connecting Out-of-School Learning to Home: Digital Postcards from Summer Camp

Heather Toomey Zimmerman; Christopher Gamrat; Simon Hooper

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 58, No. 2 (March 2014) pp. 87–92

Parents and children are rapidly adopting mobile technologies, yet designs for mobile devices that serve a communication function to connect parents to children's out-of-school time activities are limited. As a result, our team designed the...

Role-Based Design: Rethinking Innovation and Creativity in Instructional Design

Charles Miller; Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1804–1811

We believe the process of instructional design is in need of foundational transformation, from one of following a codified algorithm to a new way of designing that uses specific roles to define project values, responsibilities, and activities. In...

"Avenue ASL:" Transforming Curriculum through Design and Innovation

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 52, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 27–32

Between 1998 and 2002, enrollment in American Sign Language (ASL) curricula at the postsecondary level has increased 433% nationally, representing the largest enrollment percentage gain of all world languages. This unprecedented demand for ASL...

Using data to support instructional decision making: Designing a progress monitoring system to use with students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Rayne Sperling

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1503–1510

Ave: PM is a web-based progress monitoring system we designed to help teachers to monitor their children's literacy The software presents students with brief assessments and uses novel interfaces to help teachers score the assessments Scoring data...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Results and conclusions from a Learning Software Design Competition

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper; Paul Bernhardt

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1816

The University of Minnesota's Design Institute is sponsoring a competition to recognize the design of innovative educational software. The competition was open to professional and not-for-profit educational software designers in such areas as higher ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Software, Inclusive Education

Results of a learning software design competition

Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper; Paul Bernhardt

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1004–1105

This paper presents the results of the first Learning Software Design Competition sponsored by the University of Minnesota. Results and observations from the process of the competition are included.

Topics: Software

InfoViz for Education: Using Interactive Information Visualization to Enhance Sense- and Decision-Making for Teachers and Students

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Luke Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1798–1803

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...

InfoViz and Online Learning: How Design can influence Decision-Making

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Lucas Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1132–1138

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...

AvenueDHH: Reading, Writing and Language e-Assessment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3735–3741

Hearing loss has a devastating impact on the development of children’s English-language literacy skills. This paper presents a narrative of the design, development, and future integration of a web-based progress-monitoring environment in the area of ...

Design and Development of a Reading, Writing, and Language e-Assessment Environment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing K-8 Learners

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Luke Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1792–1797

Hearing loss has a devastating impact on the development of children’s English-language literacy skills. This paper presents a narrative of the design, development, and future integration of a web-based progress-monitoring environment in the area of ...

The Avenue Platform: Redefining World Language E-Assessment

Lucas Lecheler; Charles Miller; Bradford Hosack; Susan Rose; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1213–1221

The Avenue platform, designed and developed by faculty and staff in Learning Technologies, Educational Psychology, and the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, is an innovative online performance assessment framework comprised of two...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems

The Effects of Digital Video Quality on Learner Comprehension in an American Sign Language Assessment Environment

Simon Hooper; Charles Miller; Susan Rose; George Veletsianos

Sign Language Studies Vol. 8, No. 1 (2007) pp. 42–58

The effects of digital video frame rate and size on American Sign Language (ASL) learner comprehension were investigated. Fifty-one students were randomly assigned to one of three video-size treatment groups: 480x360, 320x240, and 240x180 pixels....

Transforming E-Assessment in American Sign Language: Pedagogical and Technological Enhancements in Online Language Learning and Performance Assessment

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Michael Montalto-Rook

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 33, No. 3 (September 2008) pp. 155–168

The rapid increase in demand for American Sign Language (ASL) instruction between 1998 and 2002 created pervasive challenges in effectively assessing and documenting ASL learner performance. To address these challenges, we designed and developed the ...

Examining the usability of images in the design of a web-based progress monitoring system for students who are Deaf / Hard of Hearing

Simon Hooper; Rayne Sperling; Susan Rose; Jian Liao; Michelle Hepfer; Xinyur Li; Anne Marie Gardner

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 270–276

Ave: PM is a software suite designed to help monitor the literacy development of students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Our presentation will address the issues associated with using traditional progress monitoring tools and briefly demonstrate...

Topics: Alternative and innovative assessment methods