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Pearson, 2018
Pearson sought to explore whether the students in schools in Brazil using the NAME learning system (an integrated program that encompasses a school's whole educational environment) demonstrate higher achievement in Portuguese and math, compared to those not exposed to NAME, as measured by national achievement assessments. This Research Report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Portuguese, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Chin, Kai-Yi; Hong, Zeng-Wei; Huang, Yueh-Min; Shen, Wei-Wei; Lin, Jim-Min – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The addition of animated pedagogical agents (APAs) in computer-assisted learning (CAL) systems could successfully enhance students' learning motivation and engagement in learning activities. Conventionally, the APA incorporated multimedia materials are constructed through the cooperation of teachers and software programmers. However, the thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Courseware, Animation, Learning Motivation
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Sathasivam, Renuka V.; Daniel, Esther G. S. – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2016
There is an accumulating research base that supports the effectiveness of formative assessment practices in enhancing the quality of educational outcomes, yet research findings seem to indicate sluggish implementation of these formative assessment strategies in the classrooms. Many factors influence teachers' formative assessment practices…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Qualitative Research
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Luik, P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2007
It is important for the teacher to choose effective software for students. It is also important for designers to know what features of educational software make it effective. But the results of studies dealing with the effectiveness of educational software are contradictory. One reason for such results might be the fact that meta-analysis covers…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Drills (Practice), Courseware, Computer Software Evaluation
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Assude, Teresa – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2005
Time is a constraint but also a condition of operating within a didactic system. Don't we need to distinguish several kinds of times? Our study will focus on teachers' time management strategies. We will identify these strategies by taking into account two temporal dimensions--didactic time and time capital--and the rate at which the former…
Descriptors: Time Management, Geometry, Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers