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Grenner, Emily; Åkerlund, Viktoria; Asker-Árnason, Lena; van de Weijer, Joost; Johansson, Victoria; Sahlén, Birgitta – Educational Review, 2020
Observational learning is a successful method for improving writing skills in various genres. We explore effects of a five lesson intervention series based on peer observation. Fifty-five Swedish 5th-grade students aged 10-12 years followed this intervention programme. The students watched short film clips with peers working with texts. Each…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Personal Narratives, Observational Learning
Schenk, Matthew D. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The United States is facing an unprecedented teacher shortage. With many studies estimating that 17-33% of teachers leave the profession within their first five years of starting a career, something needs to change to keep new teachers in the classroom. This study evaluates the effectiveness of peer observation as a learning tool to supplement the…
Descriptors: Observation, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Peer Evaluation
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Regan, Helen; Howe, Julia – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2017
There has recently been a growth in interest in the use of video technology in the practice of educational psychologists. This research explores the effects of a video self-modelling (VSM) intervention on the behaviours of a child in mainstream education using a single case study design set within a behaviourist paradigm. VSM is a behavioural…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Observational Learning, Modeling (Psychology), Intervention
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Chai, Zhen – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2017
This study evaluated the effectiveness of using a researcher-developed iPad app with a 0- to 5-s constant time delay procedure to improve phonological awareness skills of young children with mild developmental delays in a small-group arrangement in a rural public elementary school in Southwest United States. The study was conducted using a…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Improvement, Young Children
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Young-Pelton, Cheryl A.; Bushman, Samantha L. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2015
Effectiveness of a video self-modelling (VSM) intervention was examined with primary schoolchildren who attended a full-time special education programme for pupils with social emotional and behavioural difficulties and who exhibited inappropriate behaviour during small-group reading instruction. A randomised multiple-probe baseline design was used…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Observational Learning, Imitation, Modeling (Psychology)
Gold, Lisa Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to test the effects of a peer-yoked contingency on the induction of observational performance, observational acquisition, and the Naming capability. In Experiment I, three male kindergarten and first grade students diagnosed with disabilities were selected as target participants because they had the listener component…
Descriptors: Observation, Naming, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Delgado, Jo Ann Pereira; Greer, R. Douglas – Psychological Record, 2009
We tested the effects of teaching peer monitoring on the emergence of an observational learning (OL) capability in 2 experiments using delayed multiple probe designs with children diagnosed with developmental disabilities. In probes for the OL capability before and after each stage of the peer monitoring intervention, participants received…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Developmental Disabilities, Children, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)