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Designing Knowledge Building Communities in Secondary Schools
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Lai, Kwok-Wing – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2014
In 2012-2013, sixteen senior secondary classes participated in this study, with eight of them being distance classes. Approximately 220 Year 11-13 students and 8 teachers took part in this study. This project aimed at designing and evaluating a computer-supported knowledge building community in senior secondary classes. Researchers sought to…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
Use of Cognitive Organisers as a Self Regulated Learning Strategy
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Tan, Kym; Dawson, Vaille; Venville, Grady – Issues in Educational Research, 2008
This research investigates the use of cognitive organisers as a self-regulated learning strategy by gifted and talented science students in a Year 9 class at a metropolitan high school in Perth, Western Australia. The case study research design incorporates three primary methods of data collection including participant observation in classrooms,…
Descriptors: Research Design, Participant Observation, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
Pedagogical-Research Designs to Capture the Symbiotic Nature of Professional Knowledge and Learning about e-Learning in Initial Teacher Education in the UK
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Turvey, Keith – Computers & Education, 2010
This paper argues that if new communications technologies and online spaces are to yield "new relationship[s] with learners" then research that is tuned to recognize, capture and explain the pedagogical processes at the center of such interactions is vital. This has implications for the design of pedagogical activities within Initial…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Teachers, Research Design, Learning Strategies
Case Study: Collaborative Creation of an On-Line Degree Program
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Stewart, Barbara L.; Norwood, Marcella; Ezell, Shirley; Waight, Consuelo – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2006
Faculty collaboratively developed an on-line Bachelor of Science degree in Consumer Science and Merchandising (CSM). Part-time faculty and technical support services supported the four-member team. Small grants assisted in the creation and redesign of all CSM major courses for on-line delivery. Issues of appropriate learning strategies, student…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Online Courses, Consumer Science, Learning Strategies
The Design of Effective Case Study-Related Learning Strategies Training.
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Nuttall, Alice E. – 1993
The development of case study training materials for an experimental research strategy is described, and the effects of such training are discussed. The theoretical foundation for learning strategies training was a social-cognitive/expectancy value model of college learning and teaching. In a posttest-only 2-group design, 54 students in an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Education, Case Studies, College Students
The Problem Method of Teaching Research Methods.
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McBurney, Donald H. – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Describes the application of the problem method, or case study approach, to teach undergraduate research methods. Maintains that the approach is particularly applicable because research design is a classic ill-defined task. Reports that students find the method challenging and interesting. (CFR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Course Content
Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
Cross, K. Patricia; Steadman, Mimi Harris – 1996
The centerpiece of this book are four cases which illustrate classroom research in the context of various learning issues in college classrooms. The cases are intended for discussion by readers of: (1) how the students in the hypothesized situation perceive what is going on; (2) possible hypotheses about what is interfering with student learning;…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research