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Chuang Chen; Nurullizam Jamiat; Siti Nazleen Abdul Rabu; Yongchun Mao – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Gamified interactive e-books can make the learning process more interactive, enjoyable, and personalized by incorporating game elements into the educational content, thus increasing student engagement and retention in the flipped classroom. However, scholars have pointed out that learning with game elements that may lead to poor learning outcomes.…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Mathematics Education, Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods
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Deepak Dawar – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Learning computer programming is typically difficult for newcomers. Demotivation and learned helplessness have received much attention. Besides the subject's intricacy, low in-class participation has been associated with poor student achievement. This paper presents a follow-up, stage 2 study on the novel instructional technique, Student-Driven…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Science Education, Required Courses, Elective Courses
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Costello, David – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2014
When I was asked to teach the entire literacy curriculum to my grade six students in only five months, I implemented reading conferences as an instructional practice to deepen students' reading comprehension. Classroom events related to reading conferences, student decision-making, and instructional planning were recorded in a journal. This…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Dickerson, Katie – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
Many of us are plagued by negative memories of sustained silent reading. In some of these memories, we are the students, attempting to read a book that didn't hold our interest or trying to read over the din of our disengaged classmates. In other memories, we are the teachers, suffering through a ten-minute classroom management nightmare, deciding…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Silent Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Programs
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Alpaslan, Muhammet Mustafa; Yalvac, Bugrahan; Loving, Cathleen C. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Over 50 years, two major reform efforts in science education took place. The purpose of the present study is to explore how the educational reforms were reflected in nine 6th grade science textbooks published in 1975, in 1985 and in 1997 in terms of (a) the materials used, (b) the contexts to which the electricity concept was related, (c) the type…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Instruction, Grade 6, Textbook Evaluation
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Wright-Maley, Cory – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
This comparative case study presents one key challenge that 2 experienced teachers faced when using simulations: control. Simulations are activities that place high demands on teachers, including the ability to anticipate pitfalls in advance, act in multiple capacities, shape the direction of the activity without unduly interfering, and to be…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Social Studies, Simulation
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Hurney, Carol A.; Harris, Nancy L.; Bates Prins, Samantha C.; Kruck, S. E. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2014
This study explored the impact of a learner-centered, mid-semester course evaluation process called the small group instructional diagnosis (SGID) on student perceptions of dimensions of teaching that promote effective learning. Classes where instructors requested the SGID were randomly assigned to either traditional or learner-centered SGIDs and…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Online Surveys, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
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Bock, Amanda K.; Erickson, Karen A. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2015
Learning to read with comprehension requires that students acquire and integrate an increasingly complex set of skills. Students with severe disabilities are often seen as incapable of mastering and integrating the skills required for reading with fluency and comprehension, a presumption that results in decreased access to comprehensive reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Learner Engagement, Severe Disabilities
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Cárdenas Espitia, Carlos – HOW, 2010
This article describes an action research project in which the members of a basic English class for adults over 50 at a Colombian public university undertook the mission of discovering their potentialities as autonomous learners. By means of the reflective use of the language portfolio, the members of this course guided the planning and execution…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Student Empowerment, Action Research, Student Projects
Johnston, Christine A. – 1996
This book describes a comprehensive strategy for getting to know students learning behaviors and includes everything from theoretical constructs to projects for classroom use. Glosses direct the reader to further information on subjects discussed in the book: cognitive science, brain science, learning styles, multiple intelligences, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Kuo, Elaine W.; Levis, Marc R. – 2002
The purpose of this study is to examine how technology, namely virtual reality (VR), can be developed as a critical pedagogical tool. More specifically, the study explores whether the use of VR can challenge the traditional lecture format and make the classroom a more student-centered environment. In this instance, VR is defined as a set of…
Descriptors: Architecture, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Goff-Kfouri, Carol Ann – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this article was to clarify the seemingly contrary philosophies of learner centered and teacher centered teaching approaches. First, the benefits of both approaches are described. Examples of ways in which teacher centered classes using thoughtful questioning techniques or focused lectures enhance learning are presented. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Participation, Writing Strategies, Writing Exercises
Zhang, Ping – 1997
A graduate distance course on Information Systems Analysis and Design was designed and delivered under the guidance of the following four philosophies: (1) an effective education is a learner-centered education; (2) distance students are more likely to experience situated learning and problem-based learning; (3) enforced learning should enable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer System Design
Levin, David S.; Ben-Jacob, Marion G. – 1998
Trends in pedagogy and in technology are converging to make distance learning environments of the 21st century. Trends in pedagogy have encouraged the movement away from the learner as a passive recipient of information and toward a more active model of learning. Earlier generations of distance learning media and methods were ill-suited to the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning