The purpose of this study was to examine the application of Augmented Reality (AR) Application in the Geography lesson of Primary School. The application covered the Earth's atmosphere and was evaluated by 71 students in the sixth grade of primary school who completed questionnaires before and after the educational intervention. The results were…

Virtual manipulatives as cognitive tools, dynamic/interactive, Web-based representations and/or technology-based renditions, allow users to engage in mathematical meaning making. This research investigated teacher candidates' perceptions of the mathematical, cognitive, and pedagogical fidelity of Fill and Pour virtual manipulative. Findings…

This paper reports on a study that explored the use of cognitively challenging tasks with low-attaining mathematics students and in particular, their teachers' attempts at scaffolding. A major finding was that responding appropriately to scaffolding opportunities was challenging for the teachers. In this paper two main factors are discussed which…

Addressed primarily to teachers of speech communication, this paper suggests further emphasis on three important aims of education. The first objective is the development of an educational focus which stresses the unitary nature of knowledge, making speech courses more interdisciplinary. The second objective is the appropriate use of new knowledge…

Most of the literature on the instructional effects of operationally defining the objectives of a curriculum before implementation has been based on a logical, rather than an empirical, analysis of the instructional process. A model procedure was developed and used to examine empirically the contribution of the cognitive objectives of an…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of two death education seminars to create in the participants a better capacity to prepare for their own death and to cope with the death of others. An affective death education seminar was presented to 28 health education students, and a cognitive death education seminar was presented…

A model basic speech communication course is described in this paper, along with guidelines for developing and maintaining a cognitive-basic skills approach to such a course. The course outline describes the university environment where the course is taught; the structure of the department offering the course; the philosophy and course objectives;…

The empirical relationships among about 90 reading objectives were examined. The objectives span late first-grade through the sixth-grade (nominally). The results of contingency analyses and correlational analyses are reported. The identification of learning hierachies is stressed. Such hierarchies are apparent in the early learning of reading…

A self control therapy program for depression was held over a 10-week period for 104 women, aged 18-60. The therapy focused on behavioral and cognitive objectives, increasing both activity levels and positive statements about self. To investigate the effectiveness of the program after a 6-month period, 71 of the women (approximately 70 percent of…

This study examined the lesson plans of 67 teacher interns in Kentucky to determine the extent to which their lesson objectives were designed to develop higher order thinking skills in their students. Copies of the first lesson plans submitted by first year teachers in one large Kentucky school system for a 3-year period, 1995-1998, constituted…

Discusses shortcomings in both cognitive- and competency-based assessment approaches to art learning. Asserts that they fail on a number of fronts to reflect the full extent of art and how it operates. Questions the degree of accuracy that these assessment approaches can achieve when considering art education. (EV)

As early as 1993 James Madison University realized that a significant revision was necessary in its undergraduate core curriculum. A General Education Committee was formed which undertook a review and evaluation of 1352 objectives; the Committee produced and published a list of approximately 100 specific learning objectives. These learning…

While it has been, and currently is, the practice of early childhood educators to evaluate educational programs in terms of their impact on children's development, enhancing children's knowledge may be as important as enhancing development; it is possible, in fact, that the enhancement of knowledge could be a better goal for early childhood…

People daydream, plan, and anticipate. They think frequently about their own actual or potential behaviors, and create behavioral scenarios (or scripts) in which they are the main character. To investigate the relationship between thinking about a behavior and one's expectancies or intentions to perform that behavior, subjects (N=93) in Experiment…

Videotape simulation, at the basic level, is any simulation experience in which videotape is used to provide feedback to the participants. This is an especially effective method of conducting leadership training because it allows each individual to integrate the cognitive, behavioral, and effective levels of learning within any of a variety of…