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Amanda Grenell; Jasmine R. Ernst; Stephanie M. Carlson – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Early science skills predict later science achievement, and persistent achievement gaps in science appear as early as preschool. The current study compared the effectiveness of different instructional approaches for teaching preschoolers about sinking and floating and examined individual differences in learning.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Direct Instruction
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Richmond, Aaron S.; Bacca, Anastasia M.; Becknell, Jared S.; Coyle, Ryan P. – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
We investigated the effects of using experiential learning and direct instruction to teach metacognitive theory and to determine whether instructional type differentially affected higher vs. lower level learning. We randomly assigned 87 introductory psychology students to either experiential learning or direct instruction conditions. We pretested…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Introductory Courses, Metacognition