Who Will Use Our Electronic Teacher’s Guide? A Preliminary Analysis of Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Issues Surrounding the Holocaust

Brendan Calandra; Thomas R. Lang; Ann E. Barron

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 4, No. 2 (2004) pp. 173–195

To ascertain the current status of Holocaust knowledge and attitudes of prospective teachers and to inform the development of a web-based educational resource for teachers of the Holocaust, an exploratory analysis was conducted at a public...

Topics: Teachers, Race, Multicultural Education

Another Look at Technology Use in Classrooms: The Development and Validation of an Instrument To Measure Teachers' Perceptions

Kristine Y. Hogarty; Thomas R. Lang; Jeffrey D. Kromrey

Educational and Psychological Measurement Vol. 63, No. 1 (2003) pp. 139–62

Developed and provided initial validation of scores from a survey designed to measure teachers' reported use of technology in their classrooms. Interprets results from a sample of 2000 teachers in terms of the ability of the instrument to measure...

Breaking Ground for EncStat: A Statistics Anxiety Intervention Program

Freda S. Watson; Thomas R. Lang; Jeffrey D. Kromrey

Annual Meeting of the Florida Educational Research Association (FERA) 2002 (November 2002)

A team of researchers at the University of South Florida is developing a multimedia program to identify and help students with statistics anxiety. This program, EncStat, includes tests that provide information about a student's level of anxiety and...

An Assessment Blueprint for EncStat: A Statistics Anxiety Intervention Program

Freda S. Watson; Thomas R. Lang; Jeffrey D. Kromrey; John M. Ferron; Melinda R. Hess; Kristine Y. Hogarty

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2003 (2003)

EncStat (Encouraged about Statistics) is a multimedia program being developed to identify and assist students with statistics anxiety or negative attitudes about statistics. This study explored the validity of the assessment instruments included in...

Laptop Computers in Teacher Preparation: Lessons Learned from the University of South Florida Implementation

Ann E. Barron; Carine M. Feyten; Melissa Venable; Amy Hilbelink; Kristine Y. Hogarty; Jeffrey D. Kromrey; Thomas R. Lang

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (September 2008) pp. 95–117

This article provides an overview of the successful laptop implementation in the College of Education at the University of South Florida (USF). The pilot initiative began with one cohort of preservice teachers in 2003; since then, the program has...