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Oshra Aloni; Michal Zion; Ornit Spektor-Levy – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Students' individual characteristics influence the effectiveness of instruction and learning and, therefore, the depth of learning. This study brings forth the voices of middle school students regarding their science learning preferences through four modalities: visual, auditory, sensorimotor, and agency support. We examined the relationship…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Cognitive Style, Student Characteristics
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Recepli, Elnara; Egilmez, Hatice Onuray – International Education Studies, 2022
In this research, the aim is to determine the effect of piano education on visual memory. One of the quantitative research methods, experimental research design, was used in the study, and the study group was determined with the purposive sampling method. The short-term visual memory of the students aged from 8 to 12 (experimental n=36, control…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Memory, Visual Learning
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Chen, Hsiu-Ling; Liao, Yen-Chun – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Digital learning has become an inevitable trend with many benefits for students' learning performance and motivation. However, Virtual Reality, a pervasive mode of digital learning nowadays, has incurred ambivalence among teachers over the years due to its high cost and other technical concerns. Panoramic image VR (PIVR) is a cost-efficient…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Work Environment, Vocational High Schools
Kumar, S. Prasanna – Online Submission, 2018
Sensory integration takes place in the central nervous system where complex interactions such as co-ordination, attention, arousal levels, autonomic functioning, emotions, memory and higher level cognitive functions are carried out. Sensory integration gets information through the senses, puts it together with prior knowledge, information and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Sensory Integration, Teaching Methods, Short Term Memory
Campbell, Stephen R.; Handscomb, Kerry; Zaparyniuk, Nicholas E.; Sha, Li; Cimen, O. Arda; Shipulina, Olga V. – Online Submission, 2009
Geometry is required for many secondary school students, and is often learned, taught, and assessed more in a heuristic image-based manner, than as a formal axiomatic deductive system. Students are required to prove general theorems, but diagrams are usually used. It follows that understanding how students engage in perceiving and reasoning about…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Geometry
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Garnett, Steve – Teaching History, 2005
Steve Garnett, a senior teacher in charge of Teaching and Learning at Garibaldi College of Maths and Computing in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, shares some of the techniques that he uses to involve different kinds of learners in his post-16 lessons, and explains how he arrived at these approaches after reflecting on problems in his own early…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Retention (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Puppetry