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Moon, Hanna; Sejong, Wendy; Valentine, Tom – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: How to build and enhance the strategic learning capability (SLC) of an organization becomes crucial to both research and practice. This study was designed with the purpose to conceptualize SLC by translating and interpreting the related literature to develop empirical dimensions that could be tested and used in a survey instrument.…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Surveys
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Baker, Marshall A.; Robinson, J. Shane – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2018
The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of two contrasting pedagogies (i.e., experiential learning and direct instruction) on students' retention of agricultural knowledge over time. A six-week deferred post-test was employed to assess long-term retention of the subject matter. The results indicated that initially, students who were…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Rural Education, Agricultural Education, Retention (Psychology)
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Cavus, Nadire; Ibrahim, Dogan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The topic of this paper is to describe the development of an interactive application that can be used in teaching English as a second language using children's stories in mobile devices. The aim of this experimental study has been to find out the potential of using the developed interactive mobile application in improving the learning skills such…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Experimental Groups
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Ubuz, Behiye; Aydinyer, Yurdagül – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
The current study aimed to construct a questionnaire that measures students' personality traits related to "striving for understanding" and "learning value of geometry" and then examine its psychometric properties. Through the use of multiple methods on two independent samples of 402 and 521 middle school students, two studies…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Test Construction, Questionnaires, Personality Traits
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Murphy, P. Karen; Andiliou, Andria; Firetto, Carla M.; Bowersox, Carissa M.; Baker, Markus; Ramsay, Crystal M. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
Facilitating students' acquisition of higherorder thinking skills is imperative in the 21st century. Although some types of text have been shown to enhance higherorder thinking, the effects of many novel forms of text have yet to be investigated. As such, the purpose of the present study was to explore the extent to which a relatively novel form…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Beliefs, Comprehension