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Min Gao; Jiancheng Qian; Ushba Rasool – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigates the impact of task-induced involvement and time on task on incidental second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Utilizing a 3 (task-induced involvement) × 2 (time on task) × 2 (post-test time) research design, three task-induced involvement conditions were employed based on the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH): reading…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Incidental Learning, Task Analysis, Correlation
Jiang, Yang; Paquette, Luc; Baker, Ryan S.; Clarke-Midura, Jody – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Inquiry skills are an important part of science education standards. There has been particular interest in verifying that these skills can transfer across domains and instructional contexts [4,15,16]. In this paper, we study transfer of inquiry skills, and the effects of prior practice of inquiry skills, using data from over 2000 middle school…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Virtual Classrooms, Comparative Analysis, Novices
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Wilhelm, Anne Garrison – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
This study sought to understand how aspects of middle school mathematics teachers' knowledge and conceptions are related to their enactment of cognitively demanding tasks. I defined the enactment of cognitively demanding tasks to involve task selection and maintenance of the cognitive demand of high-level tasks and examined those two…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Instruction
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Clark, Douglas; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2003
Science educators face constant tradeoffs between allocating time to important topics and including more topics in the curriculum. We study 3,000 students experiencing 4 increasingly streamlined versions of a computer-enhanced middle school thermodynamics curriculum to investigate the impact of instructional time on knowledge integration.…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Prior Learning, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies