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Genine L. Blue – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This multiple manuscript dissertation offers a cohesive set of research studies curated to address three topics related to how high-quality instructional practice (HQIP) is defined, measured and ultimately connected to student engagement and achievement. Grounded in Benson's (1998) framework of construct validation, this line of inquiry outlines:…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Quality, Outcomes of Education, Measurement
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Graben, Katharina; Doering, Bettina K.; Barke, Antonia – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
In this study, we investigated whether the use of smartphone games while reading a text reduces learning performance or reading speed. We also examined whether this is affected by push notifications. Ninety-three students were randomly assigned to three learning conditions. In the gaming group (G), participants played a game app for 20 s at 2-min…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Games, Reading Processes
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Prates, Jorge Marques; Melo, Silvana Morita; Valle, Pedro Henrique Dias; Garcia, Rogério Eduardo; Maldonado, José Carlos – Informatics in Education, 2023
Nowadays, SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses) have been used as complementary methods to support classroom teaching. SPOCs are courses that apply the usage of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), combining classroom with online education, making them an exciting alternative for contexts such as emergency remote teaching. Although SPOCs have been…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Science Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Abid, Nisar; Ali, Rizwan; Akhter, Mumtaz – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The study purposes were to explore the level of students' academic enablers and gender-based difference towards academic enablers scales (AES) among 3200 students that were selected randomly from 80 high schools of Punjab province of Pakistan. The descriptive design of the positivism research paradigm was used to accomplish the study. Academic…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Study Skills, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2019
The debate on the validity of teaching students how to identify their own preferred learning style is not going to go away anytime soon as evidenced by the number of articles still being written about the topic. One can find numerous research studies that say students have different strengths and weaknesses when it comes to learning and retaining…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Preferences
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Talpade, Medha; Talpade, Salil – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2020
The 'Sankofa' scale was constructed on the basis of perceptions of students about culturally relevant teaching and learning methods. This study established the construct validity of the scale. Participants (n = 171) who were students from a historically black university, reported their agreement regarding the presence and importance of teaching…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Racial Identification, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
Yin, Hongbiao; Lee, John Chi-Kin; Zhang, Zhonghua – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: Catering for learner diversity is a key issue in the recent educational reforms in Hong Kong. The present study addresses this issue through an investigation of the relationships between students' learning styles and approaches to learning in Hong Kong secondary schools. Design/Approach/Methods: A total of 6,054 junior secondary students…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Cognitive Style, Educational Change, Correlation
Michele Gaglione – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this non-experimental research study was three-fold: (1) to investigate the relationships among the attributes of creative problem solving ability (divergent thinking, convergent thinking, motivation, general knowledge and skills, and environment) and their relationships in the humanities (specifically those that took enrichment…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Class Activities, Enrichment Activities
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Thomas, Nathalie; Colin, Cécile; Leybaert, Jacqueline – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Narrative skills are highly predictive of linguistic development as well as future school performances. Yet, children with low socio-economic status (SES) background present specific difficulties for these skills. Interactive reading sessions could have beneficial effects on narrative capacities. We analyze the effects of an IR intervention…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Low Income, Narration, Language Acquisition
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Green, Katherine; Robbins, Sandra; Varga, Mary; Head, Cynthia; Davis, Erin; Houze, Whitney – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
In the United States, preschool teachers report behaviour management as one of the greatest challenges when educating young children. Teachers consistently feel unprepared to meet the needs of children with persistent challenging behaviours. Unfortunately, the issue affects more than just preschool teachers. Behaviour issues that emerge in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Behavior Problems, Preschool Teachers
Cummins, Jim – Multilingual Matters, 2021
Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Theory, Language Fluency
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Al Masri, Amaal – International Education Studies, 2019
This study aimed to identify the effect of using brainstorming in the development of creative thinking and achievement in the English language among 10th grade students at King Abdullah II School of Excellence. The study sample consisted of (168) students. The problem of the study was to answer the main question: What is the impact of using…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Creative Thinking, Academic Achievement, Grade 10
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Castillo, Jose M.; Dedrick, Robert F.; Stockslager, Kevin M.; March, Amanda L.; Hines, Constance V.; Tan, Sim Yin – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2015
This article presents information on the development and initial validation of the 16-item Response to Intervention (RTI) Beliefs Scale. The scale is designed to measure the extent to which educators working in schools hold beliefs consistent with the tenets of RTI. The authors administered the instrument to 2,430 educators in 62 elementary…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Teacher Attitudes, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Avsec, Stanislav; Szewczyk-Zakrzewska, Agnieszka – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2017
This paper aims to investigate the predictive validity of learning styles on academic achievement and technological literacy (TL). For this purpose, secondary school students were recruited (n = 150). An empirical research design was followed where the TL test was used with a learning style inventory measuring learning orientation, processing…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Technological Literacy, Secondary School Students
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Dilekli, Yalçin; Tezci, Erdogan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Teaching thinking skills is core of the curriculum in many cultures. Although curricula have mutual points, the results were different from each other. Having different results of teaching thinking curriculums applied in different countries indicates importance of personal differences of teachers. Defining level of teacher's self-efficacy makes a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis
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