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Greene Nolan, Hillary; Vang, Mai Chou – Digital Promise, 2023
Providing feedback to students in a sustainable way represents a perennial challenge for secondary teachers of writing. Employing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to give students personalized and immediate feedback holds great promise. Project Topeka offered middle school teachers pre-curated teaching materials, foundational texts and videos,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8, Predictor Variables
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Stavrova, Olga; Urhahne, Detlef – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
The study examines the nature, conditions, and outcomes of student learning from an organised guided tour in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The instructional methods that best support students' cognitive and affective learning as well as how students' motivational and emotional states influence their achievement were investigated. A sample of 96…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Prior Learning, Museums, Teaching Methods
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Abi-El-Mona, Issam; Adb-El-Khalick, Fouad – School Science and Mathematics, 2008
This study assessed the influence of using mind maps as a learning tool on eighth graders' science achievement, whether such influence was mediated by students' prior scholastic achievement, and the relationship between students' mind maps and their conceptual understandings. Sixty-two students enrolled in four intact sections of a grade 8 science…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Science Achievement, Multiple Choice Tests, Concept Mapping
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McNamara, Danielle S.; O'Reilly, Tenaha P.; Best, Rachel M.; Ozuru, Yasuhiro – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
This study examines the benefits of reading strategy training on adolescent readers' comprehension of science text. Training was provided via an automated reading strategy trainer called the Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART), which is an interactive reading strategy trainer that utilizes animated agents to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods