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Trudi Lord; Paul Horwitz; Amy Pallant; Christopher Lore – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
This study employs the Experiential Learning Theory framework to investigate students' use of a wildfire simulation. We analyzed log files automatically generated by middle and high school students (n = 1515) as they used a wildfire simulation and answered associated prompts in three simulation-based tasks. We first analyzed students' log files to…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Fire Protection, Simulation, Experiential Learning
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Nielsen, Thomas Rosendal; Hustvedt, Kjersti – Research in Drama Education, 2017
In 1979, Gavin Bolton posed a question that is still fundamental to the development of process drama: "Is it possible to steer a course that does not come down in support of any particular point of view but causes children to examine and re-examine their own views and values?" Inspired by Bakhtinian theory, Brian Edmiston developed a…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Sequential Learning, Observation
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de Milliano, Ilona; van Gelderen, Amos; Sleegers, Peter – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
This study examines the relationship between types and sequences of self-regulated reading activities in task-oriented reading with quality of task achievement of 51 low-achieving adolescents (Grade 8). The study used think aloud combined with video observations to analyse the students' approach of a content-area reading task in the stages of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Adolescents, Reading Achievement
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Lim, Chap Sam; Kor, Liew Kee; Chia, Hui Min – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
This paper discusses how implementation of Lesson Study (LS) has brought about evolving changes in the quality of mathematics classroom teaching in one Chinese primary school. The Japanese model of LS was adapted as a teacher professional development to improve mathematics teachers' teaching practices. The LS group consisted of five mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice