There is a strong national focus on increasing science achievement among the nation’s
youth as well as a strong national commitment to the support of technology use through the advent
of the information superhighway. Attempting to effectively and efficiently interweave the
tools of technology into the teaching of science in our schools thus seems to be a natural reaction
to such national goals. Many studies to date have shown nominal achievement effects and
marginal to strong motivational effects among students who received a technological intervention
within a classroom learning setting. Few of these studies have included the teachers in the
decision-making processes, inserviced the teachers sufficiently, or committed to a long-term
treatment and data collection experimental design; all of these were accomplished in this study.
Moreover, few of the studies have addressed the important questions of why and how to infuse
technology into the teaching of science. This study addressed formative and summative measures
of student chemistry achievement, student attitudes toward chemistry, and the personal
opinions and attitudes of the students regarding the infusion of video-enhanced integrated
lessons into the teaching and learning of high school chemistry.
This study supports the caution expressed by Berger, Lu, Belzer, and Voss (1994) that it is
not enough simply to have multimedia and computers in the schools. Berger et al. stated that
simply accepting technologies’ merits as a given will lead to wasted monies and time and poor
instruction, and produce detrimental effects on the learners. Baird (1988) suggested that requirements
should be met if schools are to seriously consider the instructional uses of technology.
These requirements include involving practicing teachers in the design and implementation
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of the instructional technology program; contracting trainers, programmers, and cognitive scientists
to support such a program; acquiring major funding to include design and implementation
of the technology program; continuing interaction between the teacher participants and the
instructional technology design team; and making available low-cost products for teacher purchase.
This video-enhanced instructional integration study fulfilled these tenets. The data show
that video-enhanced instruction can be effective, but only when these requirements are met.
Teachers need to be involved in the decision-making process, sufficiently inserviced in the use
of technology, extensively supported for a long time after initial integration of the technology,
and offered technologies easily available within their schools.
Historically, educational technology research has centered on the question, “Will the use of
technology increase student learning over and above that of students not receiving instruction
enhanced with technology?” Perhaps, as was suggested by Berger et al. (1994), the more appropriate
question should be, “What are the most effective ways educators can use technology
to positively effect student learning?” This study provides a case in which technology was used
as a successful instructional tool within a traditional classroom setting, and challenges us to continue
to investigate settings in which technology’s attributes are being maximized for student
learning.
There is a strong national focus on increasing science achievement among the nation’syouth as well as a strong national commitment to the support of technology use through the adventof the information superhighway. Attempting to effectively and efficiently interweave thetools of technology into the teaching of science in our schools thus seems to be a natural reactionto such national goals. Many studies to date have shown nominal achievement effects andmarginal to strong motivational effects among students who received a technological interventionwithin a classroom learning setting. Few of these studies have included the teachers in thedecision-making processes, inserviced the teachers sufficiently, or committed to a long-termtreatment and data collection experimental design; all of these were accomplished in this study.Moreover, few of the studies have addressed the important questions of why and how to infusetechnology into the teaching of science. This study addressed formative and summative measuresof student chemistry achievement, student attitudes toward chemistry, and the personalopinions and attitudes of the students regarding the infusion of video-enhanced integratedlessons into the teaching and learning of high school chemistry.This study supports the caution expressed by Berger, Lu, Belzer, and Voss (1994) that it isnot enough simply to have multimedia and computers in the schools. Berger et al. stated thatsimply accepting technologies’ merits as a given will lead to wasted monies and time and poorinstruction, and produce detrimental effects on the learners. Baird (1988) suggested that requirementsshould be met if schools are to seriously consider the instructional uses of technology.These requirements include involving practicing teachers in the design and implementationEFFECTS OF INTEGRATED VIDEO MEDIA 629of the instructional technology program; contracting trainers, programmers, and cognitive scientiststo support such a program; acquiring major funding to include design and implementationof the technology program; continuing interaction between the teacher participants and theinstructional technology design team; and making available low-cost products for teacher purchase.This video-enhanced instructional integration study fulfilled these tenets. The data showthat video-enhanced instruction can be effective, but only when these requirements are met.Teachers need to be involved in the decision-making process, sufficiently inserviced in the useof technology, extensively supported for a long time after initial integration of the technology,and offered technologies easily available within their schools.Historically, educational technology research has centered on the question, “Will the use oftechnology increase student learning over and above that of students not receiving instructionenhanced with technology?” Perhaps, as was suggested by Berger et al. (1994), the more appropriate
question should be, “What are the most effective ways educators can use technology
to positively effect student learning?” This study provides a case in which technology was used
as a successful instructional tool within a traditional classroom setting, and challenges us to continue
to investigate settings in which technology’s attributes are being maximized for student
learning.
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