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Snead, William R.; Joseph, Manjula; Capriotiti, Michael; Saminatahn, Swega; Parewa, Abhinav; Thao, Chinhuor; Belogortsev, Aleksandr – Online Submission, 2023
This research study sought to determine whether pre-reading assignments have an impact on a student's academic performance. Learning a new topic which oftentimes seems foreign is never easy. However, reading a short article or reviewing a slide-show presentation on the lecture topic before the lecture happens (otherwise known as a pre-reading…
Descriptors: Prereading Experience, Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement
Ali, Clement Ayarebilla; Anderson, Hans Kweku – Online Submission, 2021
We report on mixed methods research that explored pre-service teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in basic musical methods for teaching and learning of basic fractions within the framework of Vygotsky's Theory of Scaffolding. Vygotsky's use of scaffolding opines that knowledge, skills and prior experiences, create the foundation for potential…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Music Education, Comparative Analysis, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Kumar, S. Prasanna – Online Submission, 2018
Sensory integration takes place in the central nervous system where complex interactions such as co-ordination, attention, arousal levels, autonomic functioning, emotions, memory and higher level cognitive functions are carried out. Sensory integration gets information through the senses, puts it together with prior knowledge, information and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Sensory Integration, Teaching Methods, Short Term Memory
Garrott, Carl L. – Online Submission, 2009
This study compared two groups of intermediate/advanced L2 French learners on a reading comprehension test when presented with or without background knowledge of the text. This study also compared intermediate and intermediate/advanced L2 French learners' reading comprehension when presented with increasing syntactic complexity. The results of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, French, Reading Comprehension