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Daniels, Lia M.; Goegan, Lauren D.; Radil, Amanda I.; Dueck, Bryce S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Previous research has shown that pre-service teachers have low responsibility for student motivation and feel underprepared to deal with motivational issues. As an extension, researchers have designed interventions to shift teachers' beliefs about motivation or equip them with approaches to instruction, but never both. Aims: Following…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Student Motivation
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Daniels, Lia M.; Poth, Cheryl A. – Educational Psychology, 2017
The purpose of this paper was to examine the relationships between pre-service teachers' conceptions of assessment and their intended approaches to classroom instruction and assessment. We operationalised approaches to instruction and assessment according to Achievement Goal Theory, postulating that pre-service teachers approach instruction and…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation
MacNeil, Stephen; Wood, Eileen; Zivcakova, Lucia; Glover, Robyn; Smith, Patrick – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2014
To support students in an introductory organic chemistry course, scaffolding in the form of weekly Learning Task Inventories (LTIs) were introduced. LTIs are chapter-by-chapter lists of detailed learning tasks students are expected to master during the course. This paper describes efforts to effectively implement LTIs, the effect of differing…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Ryan, Doris W.; Schmidt, Martha – 1979
Mastery learning is a group-based, teacher-paced instructional strategy. Because it is also committed to criterion-referenced evaluation and to a strong emphasis on feedback and correctives throughout the learning experience, it is often confused with competency-based education, individualized instruction, and related innovations. Mastery learning…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Group Instruction
Ross, John A. – 1982
An instructional program to improve adolescent student mastery of real-life decision-making skills produced very positive results in terms of teacher comfort with the program and increased student performance. Five core skills for decision-making were the basis of the program: identification, selection and assessment of decision criteria,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Design, Decision Making Skills, Field Tests
Kuzbik, John – 1992
The purpose of these documents is to provide educators in Saskatchewan with practical and relevant guides to teaching and learning as a means of expanding or refining teaching repertoires. The topic of this booklet is effective lecturing, described as a blend of three types of lectures: interactive (engaging student thinking throughout the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conventional Instruction, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies