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Overby, Alexandra; Jones, Brian L. – Art Education, 2015
What could video games bring to a K-12 visual arts curriculum? Overby and Jones were skeptical about incorporating gaming and virtual worlds into the classroom, but watching their own children engaging in the video game Minecraft changed their perception. As they started researching the game and how these kids were operating within the space, they…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
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Rice, Mary F.; Carter, Richard Allen, Jr. – Online Learning, 2016
Students with disabilities represent a growing number of learners receiving education in K-12 fully online learning programs. They are, unfortunately, also a large segment of the online learning population who are not experiencing success in these environments. In response, scholars have recommended increasing instruction in self-regulation skills…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Control, Online Courses
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Treacy, Kaye; Frid, Sandra; Jacob, Lorraine – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2015
This research was designed to investigate the conceptualisations and thinking strategies Indigenous Australian students use in counting tasks. Eighteen Aboriginal students, in years 1 to 11 at a remote community school, were interviewed using standard counting tasks and a "counting" task that involved fetching "maku" (witchetty…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, World Views, Computation
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Bailey, Lucy – Journal of Research in International Education, 2015
Although there has been considerable research into expatriate children attending international schools, there has been little investigation into children who attend international schools within their own nation. Seeking to redress this imbalance, this article analyses interview data from a small-scale study of host country nationals attending an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, International Schools, Interviews, Foreign Nationals
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Abrahamson, Dor; Gutierrez, Jose F.; Baddorf, Anna K. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2012
What are the nature, forms, and roles of metaphors in mathematics instruction? We present and closely analyze three examples of idiosyncratic metaphors produced during one-to-one tutorial clinical interviews with 11-year-old participants as they attempted to use unfamiliar artifacts and procedures to reason about realistic probability problems.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Figurative Language, Probability, Mathematics Instruction
Fountain, Tara – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate transformative learning strategies implemented by 10 Title I elementary principals that influence novice teacher retention. Data were gathered by individual interviews. Data were analyzed using Creswell's (2013) description of qualitative research as a collection of data…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Transformative Learning, Learning Strategies, Program Implementation
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Bofferding, Laura; Richardson, Sue Ellen – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
Fifteen elementary and secondary teacher candidates solved sixteen integer addition and subtraction problems during think-aloud interviews. Investigators further probed participants' solution strategies as well as what they noticed first when starting a new problem. Task analyses of participants' solutions led to the creation of two distinct maps…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Addition, Subtraction, Numbers
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Li, Weidong; Rukavina, Paul Bernard; Wright, Paul – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine coping against weight-related teasing among adolescents perceived to be overweight or obese in urban physical education. Forty-seven students perceived to be overweight or obese from a large urban school district were interviewed. Trustworthiness of data analysis was established by using a member-checking…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Physical Education, Obesity, Focus Groups
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Davis, Dennis S.; Neitzel, Carin – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The authors used self-regulated learning (SRL) as a lens for examining teachers' conceptions of assessment and their classroom assessment practices. Fifteen upper-elementary and middle school teachers participated in semistructured interviews designed to uncover their beliefs about the forms and functions of classroom assessment. Observational…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Audiences, Middle School Teachers, Learning Strategies
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James, Mary; McCormick, Robert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
School pupils learning how to learn (LHTL), aimed at helping them develop learning autonomy, requires teachers to develop new classroom practices. Hence teachers LHTL is equally important. The TLRP "Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks" project researched how practices were developed by teachers in 40 primary and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, School Policy
Fox, Alison; McCormick, Robert; Procter, Richard; Carmichael, Patrick – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
As part of the Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks Project, a mapping tool and associated interviews were devised to capture practitioners' views of the networks associated with their schools and local authorities (LAs). This article discusses the development and use of the mapping tool, including its trialing, and the first…
Descriptors: Maps, Instructional Leadership, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Courcier, Ikumi – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2007
This paper explores personalised learning, which is a "new" teaching and learning style in the Five Year Strategy for Children and Learners launched by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) for England in 2004. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with 13 teachers mainly in charge of Key Stage 3 at two 11-18…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
Bai, Wenyu – 2003
This study interviewed five philosophically precocious individuals (PPIs), four Chinese and one American, to examine their development. Theoretical frameworks used to evaluate data were the Transcendence Evolution Model and the taxonomy of developmental strategies. The Transcendence Evolution Model posits that children's different developmental…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Goal Orientation, Individual Development
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Miller, Carole; Saxton, Juliana – Stage of the Art, 1998
Relates an interview with Jonothan Neelands, author of "Making Sense of Drama,""Learning in Imagined Contexts," and "Structuring Drama Work." Describes the different roles drama and theater can play in the lives of the student and the school, including that of using drama to explore language arts, science, or history. Discusses Neelands' theories…
Descriptors: Authors, Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Neuman, Delia – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1991
Describes a study that investigated the interaction of learning-disabled students and their teachers with instructional elements of commercial courseware. The relationship of courseware design to student independence and motivation is discussed, implications for improving courseware design are noted, and ideas for further research are suggested.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education
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