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Ferreira, João Elias Vidueira; Lawrie, Gwendolyn Angela – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Teachers select multiple representations and adopt multiple visualization approaches in supporting their students to make meaning of chemical phenomena. Representational competence underpins students' construction of their mental models of concepts thus it is important that teachers consider this while developing instructional resources. In…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Symonds, Matthew R. E. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Institutes of higher learning are tending to reduce the amount of face-to-face teaching that they offer, and particularly through the traditional pedagogical method of lecturing. There is ongoing debate about the educational value of lectures as a teaching approach, in terms of both whether they facilitate understanding of subject material and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lecture Method, Synchronous Communication, Conventional Instruction
Herington, Carmel; Weaven, Scott – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
This paper presents an action research approach to exploring methods of improving the learning styles and outcomes of first year university students within large class environments. The genesis of this project stemmed from an observation that entire tutorial groups were often lethargic in their approach to learning. Following a survey of learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Class Activities, Teaching Styles, Action Research