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Alexandra S. Dylman; Marie-France Champoux-Larsson; Candice Frances – Educational Psychology, 2025
We report four experiments investigating the effect of prosody on listening comprehension in 11-13-year-old children. Across all experiments, participants listened to short object descriptions and answered content-based questions about said objects. In Experiments 1-3, the descriptions were read in an emotionally positive or neutral tone of voice.…
Descriptors: Intonation, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension
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Soliman, Mamdouh M.; Hilal, Ahmed J. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2016
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) compared with traditional classroom instruction of mathematics of seventh graders in Kuwait's public schools. We aimed to compare students learning outcomes between two groups: the control group, taught traditionally without the use of computers, and the experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 7
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Kyun, Sun A.; Lee, Hyunjeong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of presentation formats of worked examples and the interaction effects between the presentation formats of worked examples and the prior knowledge of learners. An investigation with 97 middle school students working in four conditions (CPWE, CWE, PWE, and the control group) was conducted. The…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning, Middle School Students
Michael Mendicino; Leena Razzaq; Neil T. Heffernan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2009
This study compared learning for fifth grade students in two math homework conditions. The paper-and-pencil condition represented traditional homework, with review of problems in class the following day. The Web-based homework condition provided immediate feedback in the form of hints on demand and step-by-step scaffolding. We analyzed the results…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Homework, Computer Assisted Instruction, Effect Size
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Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Kandil Ingeç, Sebnem – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Student Attitudes