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Telegina, Nadezhda V.; Belicheva, Tatyana V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the research problem is due to applying various training programs in the modern education system which are supposed to increase teaching efficiency. In-depth study of some subjects at schools, lyceums and gymnasiums which starts in the elementary school quite often leads to tension and failures of adaptation process in innovative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Bucolo, Joe – English Journal, 2011
Engaging 9th grade students in contemporary reality-show parodies based on "Great Expectations," the author helps students explore the intricacies of Charles Dickens's novel. In "Stay Tuned for Our Next Episode: Teaching 'Great Expectations' in Installments," the author highlighted the benefits of teaching "Great Expectations" in installments, as…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Novels, English Literature, Reading Assignments
Costello, Maureen – Teaching Tolerance, 2011
In the past, nativists opposed immigration, period. The sharp distinction between "legal" and "illegal" immigrants emerged fairly recently, according to immigration historian David Reimers, a professor of history at New York University. "Basically, by the mid-90s 'legal' immigration was no longer an issue," he says.…
Descriptors: United States History, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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White, William E. – Social Education, 2010
Academics debate the veracity of historic sites and what they represent, but no one that has visited historic places as a student, or traveled with students to historic places, can deny their power to teach. Every community has historic sites. Historic sites are, by definition, primary sources. They are artifacts of the past that often contain a…
Descriptors: Historic Sites, Field Trips, Educational Opportunities, Teaching Conditions
Torres, Robert M.; Lawver, Rebecca G.; Lambert, Misty D. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
The study sought to explore and compare the current level of job stress among secondary agriculture teachers in Missouri and North Carolina. The accessible populations consisted of secondary agriculture teachers (n = 252) in Missouri and (n = 118) in North Carolina. Data were collected using the Job Stress Survey (Spielberger & Vagg, 1999).…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Teaching Conditions, Stress Variables, Comparative Analysis
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Cothran, Donetta J.; Kulinna, Pamela Hodges – Physical Educator, 2008
Teacher knowledge is a key to effective teaching. Understanding teacher knowledge can help educators understand teacher practices. It was the purpose of this study to examine teachers' knowledge about the use of direct, peer, and inquiry teaching models. Thirty-two teachers, representing both elementary and secondary levels, were interviewed. Data…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Models, Elementary School Teachers
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Potts, Marilyn K. – Journal of Social Work Education, 1992
A survey of 194 social work graduate students investigated the effects of part- or full-time enrollment status, employment status, marital status, and other roles on psychological adjustment. Results are discussed in light of scarcity and expansion hypotheses derived from role theory, and practical implications for social work education are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns, Extracurricular Activities, Full Time Students
Fairweather, James S. – 1992
This report studies the role of teaching in the faculty reward structure by examining the relationship between faculty activities (teaching and instruction, research and scholarship, administration, public service) and compensation. The study examined the implicit emphases given by academic institutions to various faculty activities. The data…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Hayden, Alys M.; Tomporowski, Phillip D. – 1988
This research study evaluated the effects of memory demand on sustained attention, by varying the time interval between the presentations of stimuli in a cognitive vigilance task. Sixteen retarded and 16 nonretarded adult observers performed four 60-minute visual vigilance tasks in which single digits were presented sequentially and successively…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Attention Span, Comparative Analysis
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Brown, Lesley R. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2006
This laboratory exercise encourages upper level biochemistry students to build and expand upon previously developed laboratory skills and knowledge as they conduct a comparison of two methods of plasmid preparation based upon cost, quality of product, production time, and environmental impact. Besides creating an environment that mimics a more…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biochemistry, Laboratory Experiments, Comparative Analysis
Iadevaia, David G. – 1991
Following an accreditation site visit which determined that the part-time faculty at Pima Community College (PCC) accounted for 80% of the total faculty on a headcount basis, a study was conducted comparing the characteristics of full- and part-time faculty, and, in particular of full- and part-time science faculty. In addition, student grades…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, College Faculty, Community Colleges
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Smeets, Paul M.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1990
Two time-delay conditions for teaching complex visual discriminations to 14 normal preschoolers, 12 with mild mental retardation, and 11 with moderate mental retardation were compared. Results indicated that for all populations and stimuli, time delay of multiple dynamic distinctive-feature prompts produced learning, while time delay of the single…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Mental Retardation
Billingsley, Felix F. – 1986
The study investigated the comparative effectiveness of the graduated guidance and time delay response prompting techniques when utilized as part of instructional interventions with students with severe disabilities. A replicated single subject, repeated measure design was used with seven subjects, aged 13-21. No significant differences were found…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Outcomes of Treatment
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Montague, Marjorie; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
This study of 40 junior high school students with learning disabilities and 20 control students found that significant intergroup differences in the quality of narrative compositions were not evident when students were allocated time for planning and were given "Create a Story" cues. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
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Shechtman, Zipora; Leichtentritt, Judy – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
The purpose of the study was to enhance classroom management in special education classrooms. "Affective teaching" was compared with "cognitive teaching" in 52 classrooms in Israel. Data was collected based on observations of three 90 minute lessons, equally divided into the two types of instruction. Results of MANOVA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Classroom Techniques, Special Education
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