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Fröber, Kerstin; Jurczyk, Vanessa; Dreisbach, Gesine – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Frequent forced switching between tasks has been shown to reduce switch costs and increase voluntary switch rates. So far, however, the boundary conditions of the influence of forced task switching on voluntary task switching are unknown. Thus, the present study was aimed to test different aspects of generalizability (across items, tasks, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Attention Control, Task Analysis, Generalization
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Zur, Ayala; Ravid, Rachel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
This paper presents an approach to planning academic courses for pre-service teachers and for researching development of teacher identity. The approach was implemented in a course, conducted in an Israeli Master Teach program, designed to foster pre-service teacher identity transformation. The research described here addresses two questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Identity, Student Developed Materials
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Lee, Gabrielle T.; Pu, Yunhuan; Xu, Sheng; Lee, Michelle W.; Feng, Hua – Journal of Special Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of video modeling and visual task analysis on the acquisition, maintenance, and engagement of washing cars for three Chinese adolescents with intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. Video-based training was conducted in the conference room of a university-affiliated autism…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Adolescents, Asians, Motor Vehicles
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Masalimova, Alfiya R.; Sadovaya, Victoriya V.; Flores, Ruben D. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
It's a common knowledge that the society and time we live in are characterized by continuous technological change and most of employee skills may become outdated fairly rapidly. Therefore, an enterprise that aspires to be successful and respond quickly to changes in the market environment should pay great attention to training programs of the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Mentors, Staff Development, Educational Quality
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Jung, Jung,; Kim, Dongsik; Na, Chungsoo – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
This study investigated the effectiveness of various types of worked-out examples used in pre-training to optimize the cognitive load and enhance learners' comprehension of the content in an animation-based learning environment. An animation-based learning environment was developed specifically for this study. The participants were divided into…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Delivery Systems, Animation
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Dyganova, Elena Aleksandrovna; Yavgildina, Ziliya Mukhtarovna – International Education Studies, 2015
The article discusses the culture of self-education of music teacher as a professionally necessary quality of a modern specialist in the field of music education. The author proposes finalized definitions of basic concepts; consistently reveals the essence, structure, criteria and indicators of self-culture of music teacher; reveals the potential…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Specialists, Independent Study
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Vujicic, Lidija; Boneta, Željko; Ivkovic, Željka – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
"Learning by doing" within and together with a "community that learns" ought to become the fundamental method of learning--not only for children, but also for their teachers and other participants in the educational process. To what extent are students of early and preschool education involved in such work methods, and what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Educational Practices
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Eng, Peng-Sim – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
This paper discusses how the process for IEP documentation was used in a training program for a group of young inexperienced teachers and teaching aides to effectively address the educational needs of children with diverse disabilities. Teachers at Kianh Centre in Vietnam received explicit instructions for writing effective functional individual…
Descriptors: Documentation, Special Needs Students, Individualized Education Programs, Training Methods
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Gibney, Janette – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2014
This action research project looks at what happened when a small group of adult numeracy teachers with widely different experiences of learning and teaching mathematics explored their own informal numeracy practices and undertook a series of collaborative mathematical tasks. Evidence from qualitative data collected during the enquiry suggests that…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Teaching Experience, Adult Educators, Task Analysis
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Clarke, Doug; Cheeseman, Jill; Roche, Anne; van der Schans, Stephanie – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2014
In recent years, the mathematics education research community has given increased focus to the use of cognitively demanding, challenging tasks and the demands placed on students and teachers by their use. In particular, there is evidence that a major issue is students' lack of persistence when working on such tasks. In this article, we report on…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
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Kluge, Annette; Sauer, Juergen; Burkolter, Dina; Ritzmann, Sandrina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
Training in process control environments requires operators to be prepared for temporal and adaptive transfer of skill. Three training methods were compared with regard to their effectiveness in supporting transfer: Drill & Practice (D&P), Error Training (ET), and procedure-based and error heuristics training (PHT). Communication…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Training Methods, Methods, Task Analysis
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McAndrew, Patrick; Taylor, Josie; Clow, Doug – Open Learning, 2010
The process of developing innovative mobile approaches to informal and formal learning is challenging, not least in needing to satisfy stakeholders with diverse interests in the technology, the pedagogy and the overall system. Some approaches to evaluation may focus on examining the nature and quality of learning that occurs, while other methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Informal Education, Educational Technology
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Doyo, Daisuke; Ohara, Atushi; Shida, Keisuke; Matsumoto, Toshiyuki; Otomo, Kazuo – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
Two years ago, the rapid retirement of the "baby boomer artisans" in vast numbers threatened to erode the competitiveness of Japanese manufacturers (i.e., the 2007 problem). This study proposes a practical process for extracting skills and designing a training system, to accelerate the learning of skills in production fields by younger…
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Learning, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Training Methods
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Tichon, Jennifer G.; Wallis, Guy M. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2010
Through repeated practice under conditions similar to those in real-world settings, simulator training prepares an individual to maintain effective performance under stressful work conditions. Interfaces offering high fidelity and immersion can more closely reproduce real-world experiences and are generally believed to result in better learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Sinelnikov, Oleg; Hastie, Peter – European Physical Education Review, 2008
Given Russian students' general lack of group work and opportunities to develop student responsibility in their prior schooling experiences, the purpose of this study was to examine how a group of Russian high school students responds to novel demands of participation in a sport education season. Forty-two students from two ninth-grade physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Systems, Student Journals, Student Responsibility
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