The Design of Instruction and Evaluation: Affordances of Using Media and Technology

by Rabinowitz, Mitchell; Blumberg, Fran C.; Everson, Howard T.; Mayer, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780805837629
• ISBN10: 0805837620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book is about empirically tested knowledge and principles that inform the design of instructional and evaluation systems, and the use and promise of media and technology within such systems. Historically, psychology has informed the design of instructional and evaluation systems in different ways. A behavioral perspective emphasizes the role of the environment in determining behavior--a factor external to the learner. A cognitive perspective focuses on the role of cognitive processing and constraints in determining learning--factors that are internal to the learner. This volume presents the affordances approach--which addresses how the environment and the affordances within it interact with cognitive processes to determine learning. Insights into this interaction are presented. It is the book's contention that the affordance approach represents an advancement over the behavioral and cognitive perspectives; it is an evolution within the cognitive approach--not an alternative to it. The Design of Instruction and Evaluation: Affordances of Using Media and Technologyis intended for education practitioners responsible for the implementation of media and technology in classrooms, for researchers and faculty, and for use as a text in courses on media and technology use in educational settings, instructional design, and psychology of learning.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Design of Instruction and Evaluation: Psychological Foundations	vii
Mitchell Rabinowitz
Part I Affordances of Media
Characteristics of Effective Materials for Informal Education: A Cross-Media Comparison of Television, Magazines, and Interactive Media	3	(16)
Shalom M. Fisch
Media Forms for Children's Learning	19	(14)
Sandra L. Calvert
Designing Multimedia Technology That Supports Human Learning	33	(20)
Richard E. Mayer
Part II Affordances of Technology
Opportunities for Learning and Development in an After-School Computer Club	53	(24)
Mary Gauvain
Sharon Borthwick-Duffy
Learning Affordances of Collaborative Software Design	77	(24)
Yasmin B. Kafai
Cynthia Carter Ching
Sue Marshall
How the Internet Will Help Large-Scale Assessment Reinvent Itself	101	(20)
Randy Elliot Bennett
Technology, the Columbus Effect, and the Third Revolution in Learning	121	(22)
J. D. Fletcher
Part III Affordances of Software
Asynchronous Learning in Graduate School Classes	143	(12)
Fran C. Blumberg
Meira Torenberg
Lori M. Sokol
Hints in Human and Computer Tutoring	155	(28)
Rachel E. DiPaolo
Arthur C. Graesser
Douglas J. Hacker
Holly A. White
Intelligent Tutors Need Intelligent Measurement, or the Other Way 'Round	183	(22)
Howard T. Everson
Author Index	205	(8)
Subject Index	213