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Li, Linlin; Flynn, Kylie; Tripathy, Rachel Grimes; Wang, Jennifer; Austin-King, Kelsey; Graves, Michael F. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study evaluated the efficacy of the Word Learning Strategies (WLS) supplementary program designed to develop upper-elementary students' vocabulary skills in order to improve reading comprehension. The study used a true, group-randomized, experimental design, which randomly assigned 46 4th grade classrooms (n=1324 students) from 12 districts…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies
Lai, Cheng-Chieh; Kuo, Ming-Mu – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of gender differences on the application of CALL programs for second language acquisition. Gender difference is an important theme in linguistic education because it influences the design of curriculum, teaching method, instructional strategy, and students' learning processes. This study applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Computer Literacy, Gender Differences
Brown, William F.; Forristall-Brown, Dorothy Z. – 1986
The Computer-Assisted Study Skills Improvement Program (CASSIP) uses interactive instruction with a computer in these areas: managing time, improving memory, taking lecture notes, reading textbooks, taking examinations, writing themes and reports, making oral reports, improving scholastic motivation, improving interpersonal relations, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Program Effectiveness
2000
This packet contains three papers from a symposium on assessing the learning organization. The first paper, "Relationship between Learning Organization Strategies and Performance Driver Outcomes" (Elwood F. Holton III, Sandra M. Kaiser), reports on a study of a new learning organization assessment instrument that was administered to 440…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Administration, Educational Needs, Human Resources
DeJoy, Judith Klippel; Mills, Helen – 1987
The Personal Adult Learning Lab, part of the Georgia Center for continuing Education, was established to (1) provide the type of learning environment that can support adult learners in their efforts to develop and direct their own learning projects and (2) enable researchers to learn more about the nature of self-directed learning as demonstrated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education
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Ingram, Kathleen W.; Jackson, M. Katherine – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
This article describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a diagnostic experiential simulation (Gredler, 2004) in a graduate Performance Technology (PT) course. Simulations are experiences that provide an authentic learning environment that scaffolds novices' problem solving while minimizing the risks of 'practicing' their newly learned…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Strategies, Instructional Design
Tuckman, Bruce W. – 2003
An educational psychology-based study skills program called Strategies for Achievement was developed to teach learning and motivation strategies to college students. It involved teaching student four major achievement strategies: take reasonable risk, take responsibility for outcomes, search the environment (for information), and use feedback.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Beretta, Alan; Davies, Alan – 1985
The Bangalore Communicational Teaching Project (CTP) in India operates on the central tenet that in English instruction, form can be acquired through a focus on meaning alone, that a grammatical system can be assimilated unconsciously if the mind is engaged in trying to understand or convey meaning. Linguistic specification is not used in CTP, and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
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Sneider, Cary; And Others – Science Education, 1984
Tested the effectiveness of a program designed to teach children how to conduct and interpret a controlled experiment. Results indicate that the ability to control variables can be taught using the program (which consists of activities related to designing, building, and launching model rockets). (JN)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Shoemaker, Judith S. – 1995
This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a two-quarter, extended orientation program for new, undecided students at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The course was designed to assist students with the transition from high school to college and acquaint them with strategies to maximize their success at UCI. Of the 690 new,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Educational Attitudes, Grade Point Average
Csete, Josephine M.; Yan, Louisa; Kwan-Liddle, Margaret – 1998
This paper reports on a two-year study conducted to evaluate cooperative learning or "group work" learning models in three courses at an Asian university. Data collection methods included a paired pre/post survey of learners, paired observations (early and late) of groups involved in assigned tasks, and two rounds of one-on-one…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Staley, Constance C.; Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela S. – 1984
The undergraduate organizational communication series at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has been designed to develop competency through knowledge, skills, sensitivity, and values. The four courses in the series--Introduction to Organizational Communication, Business and Professional Communication, Advanced Organizational…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Course Content
Fowler, William; And Others – 1993
This paper reports results from two dissertation studies and several pilot and case studies examining the effects of early enrichment on children's language and cognitive development. Early enrichment in these studies included home visits with parents, typically beginning before the child reached 6 months of age, and continuing until the child was…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Experience, Early Intervention
Garcia, Eugene E. – 1985
A discussion of the cognitive development of bilingual children and its implications for early childhood education for this population begins with a review of recent research on bilingual development. It looks at the forms and results of research projects on dual language acquisition processes, the interactive influence of multiple language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
Bennett, Sharareh Frouzesh; Soule, Suzanne – Center for Civic Education, 2005
The seminar represents an effort on the part of the Center for Civic Education to create a forum in which teachers would become emotionally engaged with the artifacts, sites and experiences of those that lived through the Civil Rights Movement. The central hypothesis thereby being that such an engagement would transform the ability and willingness…
Descriptors: Seminars, Learning Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Psychology
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