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Addido, Johannes; Burrows, Andrea C.; Slater, Timothy F. – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2022
Teaching science concepts for conceptual understanding has its challenges. Bringing about conceptual change in the science classroom can be difficult because most concepts are complicated and often counter-intuitive in the teaching and learning of science concepts. A review of the literature indicates that the conceptual change model, CCM can be…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Çigdem Sahin; Ümmü Gülsüm Durukan; Elif Arikurt – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of the 5E teaching model on the primary school pre-service teachers' (PSPTs) learning some astronomy concepts. The sample of this research consisted of 90 PSPTs in the 2nd year at a state university. The research was carried out on the pre-experimental methodology with a single research group.…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Astronomy
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Wang, Qian – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Currently, the application of the network resources and various means of teaching such as multimedia into the classroom has led to the demonstration of multimodality in college English teaching. This paper analyzes the current status of college English teaching and the existing problems, elaborates the research trends of the theory of multimodal…
Descriptors: College English, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Multimedia Materials
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Spangler, Brooke R.; Kiel, Elizabeth J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
This study aimed to determine whether taking a chronological approach (CA) or topical approach (TA) to teaching developmental psychology resulted in different learning outcomes. Across two semesters, in four classes, 354 students participated (M[subscript age] = 19.76, SD[subscript age] = 2.93 years), 66% identifying as female. One instructor…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Concept Teaching
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Marschark, Marc; Richardson, John T. E.; Sapere, Patricia; Sarchet, Thomastine – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
The study examined attitudes toward teaching reported by university instructors who normally teach hearing students (with the occasional deaf or hard of hearing student) and by instructors who normally teach deaf and hard of hearing students at the same institution. Overall, a view of instruction as "information transmission" was associated with a…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Concept Formation, Teaching Methods
Wesselink, Renate; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Mulder, Martin; van den Elsen, Elke R. – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2007
The concept of competence is increasingly the basis for (re)designing VET. In competence-based VET academic disciplines are no longer starting points for curriculum development. Competence needed for working in practice, however, is. Competence-based learning is a dominant trend in VET in several countries because of fewer expected problems in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Focus Groups, Delphi Technique, Vocational Education