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Reddy, M. Vijaya Bhaskara; Mint, Phyu Phyu – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of simulation methods in teaching Science on education students' academic achievement. 70 students (35 control, 35 experimental) who studied at Srinivasa College of education, SV University in the Department of Education. 2015-2016 academic year students were participated in this simulation based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Biology, College Students
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Ge, Zi-Gang – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a storytelling approach in Chinese adult e-learners' vocabulary learning. Two classes of 60 students participated in the experiment, with 30 in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. The storytelling approach and the rote memorization approach were employed by the two groups…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Electronic Learning
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Xu, Xiaoqiu; Padilla, Amado M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
Learning and retaining Chinese characters are often considered to be the most challenging elements in learning Chinese as a foreign language. Applying the theory of meaningful interpretation, the chunking mnemonic technique, and the linguistic features of Chinese characters, this study examines whether the method of meaningful interpretation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Orthographic Symbols, Mandarin Chinese
Muralidharan, Karthik – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
While the idea of teacher performance-pay is increasingly making its way into policy, the evidence on the effectiveness of such programs is both limited and mixed. The central questions in the literature on teacher performance pay to date have been whether teacher performance pay based on test scores can improve student achievement, and whether…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Human Capital, Teacher Behavior, Incentives
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Pell, Anthony William; Iqbal, Hafiz Muhammad; Sohail, Shahida – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2010
A mixed-methods sequential research design has been used to test the effect of introducing teacher science demonstrations to a traditional book-learning sample of 384 Grade 7 boys and girls from five schools in Lahore, Pakistan. In the quasi-experimental quantitative study, the eight classes of comparable ability were designated either…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Science Instruction