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Teachers' Learning in a Learning Study
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Holmqvist, Mona – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
The point of departure in this study is the question: do teachers who develop theoretical knowledge of the variation theory change the way(s) they offer their pupils the object of learning due to the theoretical framework. The aim of the study is to describe this development, i.e. to find if and how teachers developed theoretical knowledge when…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Literacy Education, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning on the Reading Comprehension Skills in Turkish as a Foreign Language
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Bolukbas, Fatma; Keskin, Funda; Polat, Mustafa – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
Cooperative learning is a process through which students with various abilities, gender, nationalities and different level of social skills carry out their learning process by working in small groups and helping each other. Cooperative learning is a pedagogical use of small groups which enable students to maximize both their own and others'…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Models
Effects of Lexical Cohesion and Macrorules on EFL Students' Main Idea Comprehension
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Wilawan, Sujunya – Reading Improvement, 2011
This study investigated the effects of an instructional procedure which incorporated lexical cohesion and macrorules to promote main idea comprehension of Thai EFL students. One hundred and six undergraduate students taking a reading module were randomly assigned to one of three teaching conditions: the combined use of lexical cohesion and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Rhetoric, Student Attitudes
Enhancing Web-Based Instruction Using a Person-Centered Model of Instruction
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Miller, Christopher T. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
This study compared the implementation of a person-centered model of instruction to non person-centered instruction in Web-based courses. Three questions were posed regarding the outcomes of the person-centered model of instruction: Is it possible to increase the self actualization, or striving for individual achievement from learners in a…
Descriptors: Self Actualization, Web Based Instruction, Learning Experience, Learner Controlled Instruction
Using Models at the Mesoscopic Scale in Teaching Physics: Two Experimental Interventions in Solid Friction and Fluid Statics
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Besson, Ugo; Viennot, Laurence – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
This article examines the didactic suitability of introducing models at an intermediate (i.e. mesoscopic) scale in teaching certain subjects, at an early stage. The design and evaluation of two short sequences based on this rationale will be outlined: one bears on propulsion by solid friction, the other on fluid statics in the presence of gravity.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Physics, Teaching Models, Science Education
The Effects of an Early Reading Curriculum on Language and Literacy Development of Head Start Children
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Paulson, Lucy Hart; Kelly, Karen L.; Jepson, Stacia; van den Pol, Rick; Ashmore, Rhea; Farrier, Merle; Guilfoyle, Shannon – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
This study examined the effectiveness of the Montana Early Literacy Project (MELP) curriculum on literacy and language skills of preschool-age children in Head Start. The MELP model utilizes everyday events and existing routines of classroom and home environments to build literacy and language directly into children's daily experiences. Using a…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Emergent Literacy, Active Learning, Preschool Children