NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Roelle, Julian; Berthold, Kirsten – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2016
Comparing contrasting cases is a promising means to prepare learners for future learning from related direct instruction. The most prevalent type of preparation intervention used in this "case comparison approach" is providing contrasting cases together with comparison prompts. However, if the contrasting cases are complex learners might…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis, Prompting
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lee, Angel; Browder, Diane M.; Hawley, Katherine; Flowers, Claudia; Wakeman, Shawnee – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
This study investigated the effects of task analytic instruction, systematic prompting and graphic organizers on two students' ability to compose informational text. Participants were provided with information articles from which they identified the key ideas and supporting details. Participants transferred this information to a graphic organizer…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Task Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Van de Guchte, Marrit; Braaksma, Martine; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Bimmel, Peter – Modern Language Journal, 2015
In the present study, we examine the effects of prompts and recasts on the acquisition of two new and different grammar structures in a task-based learning environment. Sixty-four 14-year-old 9th grade students (low intermediate) learning German as a foreign language were randomly assigned to three conditions: two experimental groups (one…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Prompting
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Boswell, M. Alison; Knight, Victoria; Spriggs, Amy D. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2013
This investigation used an ABAB withdrawal design to determine the effect of self-monitoring using the MotivAider® (MotivAider, 2000) on percentage of intervals of on-task behavior by an 11-year old male with a moderate intellectual disability who attended a rural middle school. The MotivAider® is a small device, the size of a pager, which can be…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Task Analysis, Self Management