Deborah Cockerham

Deborah Cockerham
University of North Texas | UNT · Department of Learning Technologies

PhD in Learning Technologies and Behavioral Science

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This systematic review explores the diverse interpretations of "gamification" in education, focusing on its application in undergraduate major's level general chemistry courses when delivered digitally. Despite a limited pool of relevant literature after applying inclusion criteria, the study summarizes the available articles and records the freque...
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Inquiry can be an effective educational strategy for building critical thinking and student agency, but it is also a catalyst for scientific research. This study built upon a foundation of inquiry as 25 adolescents participated in a nine‐week guided inquiry curriculum focused on smartphones and digital responsibility. As participants developed pers...
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Multisensory‐rich VR experiences, which encompass visual, auditory, and haptic stimuli, have the potential to enhance engagement, motivation, and learning. However, extensive sensory stimuli could also compromise learning through sensory overload. In museum settings, visitors who are inundated with excessive stimuli such as unrelated background mus...
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This review of literature highlights the importance of considering the diverse needs of students in higher education learning environments in the United States. Learning activities in higher education classrooms often require students to be active verbal participants. However, in many classrooms, some students struggle when asked to participate ver...
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The rapid growth in digital technologies continues to accelerate, bringing not only new opportunities, but also new challenges and needs to the field of education. As educational technologists design research to improve the implementation of learning technologies, they must adapt their research approaches to social and cultural contexts. In Partici...
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Higher education that empowers students to address the global challenges in our rapidly changing world must impart more than knowledge. Students must also develop and practice the skills needed to respond insightfully when faced with increasingly complex, uncertain, and ambiguous issues. This chapter examines the impact of higher education instruct...
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Technology has developed at a tremendous rate since the turn of the century, but educational practice has not kept pace. Traditional teaching practices still predominate in many educational settings, and educators are often intimidated by new technology. However, as tragic as the COVID-19 pandemic has been, it has caused many people to rethink educ...
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Auditory comprehension of language is a complex process. Even students who understand isolated words or are working to “listen carefully” may struggle to process the meaning of a message that is conveyed through speech. Such deficits in listening comprehension, when combined with normal hearing, may lead to a diagnosis of central auditory processin...
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Multisensory-rich VR experiences, which encompass visual, auditory, and haptic stimuli, have a potential to enhance engagement, motivation, and learning. However, extensive sensory stimuli could also compromise learning through sensory overload. In museum settings, visitors who are inundated with excessive stimuli may not experience optimal learnin...
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Assessment plays a key role in everyday life, particularly in our educational and corporate communities. Life opportunities such as school trajectories and career promotions are often extended or denied based on a single assessment score. The stress that individuals may experience when a high-stakes decision is determined by a single test can produ...
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Health and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic required many face-to-face United States schools to suddenly shut their doors, moving classes to virtual learning environments. Amidst concerns of technology overuse, adolescents across the country saw dramatic increases in both personal screen time use and social isolation as they learned to...
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Media multitasking is common in today’s life, but its impact is not clear. In this study, we used a mixed- methods research design to explore the influence of media multitasking on attention (task switching and sustained focus), and the influence of attention on undergraduate students’ ability to evaluate news. Sixty Shanghai undergraduates read si...
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As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our society, cultural expectations and needs are changing. Social understanding, family roles, organizational skills, and daily activities are all adapting to the demands of ever-present technology, causing changes in human brain, emotions, and behaviors. An understanding of the impact of technolog...
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In this chapter, we discuss the purpose of this book and provide an overview of evolving discussions on the definitions of human learning, the processes of learning, and the methods to assess learning based on new advances and discoveries in learning sciences, learning technologies, and neurosciences.
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This chapter synthesizes findings from a series of five studies examining the impacts of different background sounds on cognitive task performance. Four out of the five studies compared background sounds of silence, white noise (rain), calm music without lyrics (Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalize, Op. 34”), and fast, energetic music without lyrics (Benny Goo...
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Abstract: This study examined factors that influence middle school students’ dispositions towards science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Interest and ability in STEM subject areas were compared by gender, based on 182 middle school students’ responses to four different test instruments. While findings from t-tests indicated sign...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a new school technology on teachers and students in rural middle schools. The study involved teachers and seventh grade students in two Title I rural Texas school districts and was framed through a constructivist lens using a project-based approach. Pre- and post-intervention surveys assessed l...
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The need for science education and outreach is great. However, despite the ever-growing body of available scientific information, facts are often misrepresented to or misunderstood by the general public. This can result in uninformed decisions that negatively impact society at both individual and community levels. One solution to this problem is to...
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Communication deficits in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are often related to inefficient interpretation of emotional cues, which are conveyed visually through both facial expressions and body language (Apicella et al., 2012). The present study examined ASD behavioral and ERP responses to emotional expressions of anger and fear, as c...
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As new technologies increase the opportunities for multitasking, the need to understand human capacities for multitasking continues to grow stronger. Is multitasking helping us to be more efficient? This study investigated the multitasking abilities of 168 participants, ages 6–72, by measuring their task accuracy and completion time when they compl...
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An understanding of the relationship between emotions, cognition, and learning can provide insight into learning needs for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This article discusses current research and new theories on ASD from three different perspectives: the behavioral sciences, neuroscience, and education. The rapid increase of ASD di...

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