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In Fall 1998, TimeWeb
was used for the first time as part of a regular archeology course. Part
of the implementation of TimeWeb included evaluation studies of the effectiveness
of the tool. The developers and instructor wanted to know how students
were using TimeWeb, individually and in groups, what sorts of visualization
opportunities the software offered them, and what kinds of critical thinking
and problem-solving skills TimeWeb helped to foster. Rockman
et al, an educational evaluation company with offices in San Francisco,
Chicago, and Bloomington, IN, was retained to head the evaluation studies,
which would cover at least three years.
| PURPOSE/OVERVIEW:
Evaluation studies were undertaken every
semester that TimeWeb was used in the classroom. |
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| YEAR
1 : TimeWeb
was used in P200: Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology in the Fall
1998 and Spring 1999 semesters. |
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| YEAR
2 : TimeWeb
was used in the 1999 Fall semester in P380: Prehistoric Diet. In Spring
2000, TimeWeb was used with three groups of students in a one-time
session. |
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| YEAR
3 : In Fall
2000, TimeWeb was used in P314: African Prehistory. |
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PROPOSED
YEAR 4: TimeWeb
will be used in A105: Human Origins and
Prehistory in the 2001 Fall semester and in an undergraduate course
on African prehistory at Berkley where Professor Sept will be teaching
in Spring 2002. |
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