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Al-deaij, Ghada Ali – Online Submission, 2020
This study investigated the amount of vocabulary that Saudi EFL teachers have in Saudi Arabia. The participants included 75 Saudi EFL males' teachers and 121 Saudi EFL females' teachers, who were chosen randomly from various Saudi public schools. Moreover, the study utilized a Vocabulary Levels Test VLT, which was constructed by Webb, Sasao, and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Skills, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Bosher, William Cleveland, Jr. – 1974
This study tested the effects of two distinct methods of instruction on the self-concept and English/language arts achievement of seventh and eighth graders divided into two experimental and one control group. The first instructional method was devoid of certain traditional constraints--grades, tests, homogeneous grouping, grade-level grouping,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Innovation, Educational Research, English Instruction
Hare, Sally Zalkin – 1975
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effectiveness of three methods of teaching reading vocabulary to third-grade students. Eighty third-grade students were given Form 1 of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Vocabulary Section, Primary C, as a pretest and randomly assigned to three experimental groups and a control group. Forty…
Descriptors: Definitions, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1, Primary Education
Higgins, Barbara Ann – 2000
The impact of using integrated metacognitive instruction on high school students' achievement, self-efficacy, and test anxiety was studied. Forty students in 2 advanced geography classes in a large suburban high school participated. The level of metacognitive strategies students used at the beginning of the semester was assessed and compared to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Geography, High School Students
Baldwin, Ronald Fred – 1975
This study examines the effect of teacher inservice training and knowledge of research upon teacher perceptions of spelling procedures and practices, and upon the spelling achievement of students. Involved in the study were 70 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade teachers in twelve elementary schools in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and their 1493 students. Among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Huettenmueller, Elizabeth Renee – 1973
This study investigated the influence of two approaches to teaching poetry, an aural-visual discussion program and an aural discussion program, on the understanding of and attitudes toward poetry among sixth grade students. The schools, teachers, and 10 classrooms (divided into 20 experimental treatment groups and 5 control groups) were selected…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 6
Pryor, Sherrill L. – 1988
This study sought to determine whether or not there was a significant difference in the achievement of 11th grade U.S. History students learning from sound filmstrips and students learning from the same sound filmstrips in videotape format. Four 11th grade U.S. History classes were examined. Each section was administered a pretest consisting of 20…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Filmstrips, Grade 11
Pajkos, Diane; Klein-Collins, John – 2001
This report describes an intervention program for increasing mathematical achievement of African American students. Within the targeted population, it was evident that the disparity in math achievement between African American and White students was increasing each year. The targeted population consisted of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Intervention
Landy, Sarah – 1977
This study investigated the relative importance of the major factors associated with the habit of reading or nonreading. Some 2,731 seventh-grade students were the subjects of the study; from these, 487 were identified as either readers or nonreaders, and, from this group, 22 students were selected for additional in-depth case studies. From over…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Masters Theses, Predictor Variables
Elliott, Robert C. – 1975
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the value of familiarizing third grade teachers with specific reading skills and to describe the effects of their using the word-attack element of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD) as an instructional management system for improving the achievements in reading…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Riendeau, Betty A. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine and to interpret the effect of two differing approaches to reading instruction on the self-social concepts of first grade children. The concepts analyzed were self-esteem; social interest; individuation; complexity; realism; identifications with mother, father, teacher, and friend; and preferences for…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Bailey, Donn F. – 1974
An appraisal of the study skills component of the Equal Opportunities Program's Summer Intensive Program at Pennsylvania State University in 1973 is the subject of this dissertation. Evaluation of certain aspects of this program was undertaken to determine whether a given teaching strategy (based on the structural method utilizing goal-setting…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Doctoral Dissertations
Bai, Jie – 1995
This paper briefly compares the uses of video as a medium of instruction in higher education in the United States and China and makes tentative explanations from a sociocultural perspective of the differences between these countries in using this medium. Video has been used similarly in a number of ways in both countries, but the ways it is used…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Atkins, Karen B. – 1978
An educational cognitive style map was prepared for each new student in the Allied Health Division of Spartanburg Technical College in Fall 1978. The Cognitive Style Map Interest Inventory was administered and individual profile sheets were developed for each of the 130 students in the division. These profile sheets provided a composite picture of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Elliott, Donna; Gintzler, Julie – 1999
This phenomenological study implemented and evaluated an individualized approach to multiple intelligence instruction. The targeted population consisted of students in two inner-city elementary schools located in Indiana. In a traditionally book-oriented classroom, instruction is typically geared toward the verbal/linguistic and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Intelligence Differences
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