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Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works. Second Edition
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Kuhn, Matt; Hubbell, Elizabeth R.; Pitler, Howard – ASCD, 2012
If you've upgraded to the second edition of the landmark book "Classroom Instruction That Works," you need this companion guide to help you use technology to support research-based instruction. The authors follow the revised Instructional Planning Guide that makes it easier for you to know when to emphasize each of the instructional strategies,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology, Cooperative Learning
A Comparison of Group-Oriented Contingencies and Randomized Reinforcers to Improve Homework Completion and Accuracy for Students with Disabilities
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Lynch, AnnMarie; Theodore, Lea A.; Bray, Melissa A.; Kehle, Thomas J. – School Psychology Review, 2009
The present study employed an alternating-treatments design to compare the differential effect of group contingencies on the improvement of homework completion and accuracy of students with disabilities in a self-contained fifth-grade classroom. Generally, past investigations have indicated a positive association between homework performance and…
Descriptors: Homework, Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement
Costs and Benefits of Family Involvement in Homework
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Van Voorhis, Frances Landis – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2011
Homework represents one research-based instructional strategy linked to student achievement. However, challenges abound with its current practice. This paper presents the results of three 2-year longitudinal interventions of the Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) homework program in elementary mathematics, middle school language arts,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Homework, Middle Schools, Family Involvement
The Effects of Pre-Reading and Sharing Mechanisms on Learning with the Use of Annotations
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Hsu, Guo-Liang – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
This study is aimed at investigating students' annotation behaviors and their effects on learning achievement with pre-reading (reading before class) exercises and Web-based sharing mechanisms. An 8-week quasi-experiment was conducted with 125 sixth-grade elementary school students. The study shows the following results. First, a significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Prior Learning
Comparison of Management Faculty Perspectives on Quizzing and Its Alternatives
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Bacdayan, Paul – Journal of Education for Business, 2004
In this study, the author compares the views of faculty members who give quizzes and those who do not regarding (a) the potential drawbacks of quizzing and (b) the viability of various quiz alternatives such as graded homework. The results suggest that quizzers and nonquizzers have much in common and that quizzing is simply one of a variety of…
Descriptors: Tests, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Using Tests as a Performance Incentive To Motivate Eighth-Graders To Study.
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Tuckman, Bruce W.; Trimble, Susan – 1997
Forty-one middle school students in two eighth-grade classes were taught half of their science chapters in the conventional manner with homework assignments, and half of their chapters by having short classroom quizzes on each unit. Quizzes were expected to stimulate incentive motivation as a mediator between a goal object, mastery, and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, Grade 8