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Thomas de Hoop; Hannah Ring; Garima Siwach; Paula Dias; Gelson Tembo; Victoria Rothbard; Anaïs Toungui – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a multi-faceted program that integrates technology-aided instruction, teacher training and coaching, community ownership, and free primary education. Our setting is three districts in rural Zambia, where we randomly assigned the program across 30 treatment and 33 control schools. The results show…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Outcomes of Education, Community Schools, Rural Areas
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Cai, Liman; Wu, Dandan; Chen, Xi; Zhu, Jie; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research findings This study aimed to explore whether the fusion of constructivism and instructivism could be observed in the teaching dialogs during the Engineer Block Building (EBB) activities in Chinese kindergartens. Altogether 20 block building activities about the theme of architecture were videotaped and coded with the "Engineer Design…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Engineering Education
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Al-Odwan, Yaser – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
This research aims to get acquainted with the effectiveness of the active learning strategy in improving the acoustic awareness skills and understanding what is heard by the basic stage students in Jordan by answering the two following questions: This research has been applied to a sample of 60 students from the basic third grade in Al-Ahnaf Ben…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Acoustics, Listening Skills
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Gonczi, Amanda; Maeng, Jennifer; Bell, Randy – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare 64 elementary science teachers' computer simulation use prior to and following professional development (PD) aligned with Innovation Adoption Theory. The PD highlighted computer simulation affordances that elementary teachers might find particularly useful. Qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Wu, Su-Chiao; Lin, Fou-Lai – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
A group of teacher educators and practitioners in mathematics education and early childhood education generalized a set of inquiry-based mathematics models for Taiwanese young children of ages 3-6 and designed a series of inquiry-based mathematics curriculum tasks in cultivate the children's diverse mathematical concepts and mathematical power. In…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Preschool Curriculum, Mathematics Curriculum, Active Learning
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Ada, Tuba; Kurtulus, Aytac – PRIMUS, 2012
In Turkey, the content of the geometry course in the Primary School Mathematics Education, which is developed by The Council of Higher Education (YOK), comprises Euclidean and non-Euclidean types of geometry. In this study, primary mathematics teacher candidates compared these two geometries by focusing on Taxicab geometry among non-Euclidean…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Mathematics Education, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Dresden, Janna; Lee, Kyunghwa – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
This article discusses how a brief project-based unit promoted the learning of children in a first-grade classroom. The children attended a public elementary school located in a southeastern university town in the United States. Approximately 94% of the students in the school were from economically disadvantaged families. No children in this…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2013
For the thirty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Discussion Groups, Content Analysis, Games