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Kahoot! In the Classroom: Examining the Impact of a Game-Based Student Response System on Pre-Service Teachers' Academic Achievement and Perceptions
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Yue Hu – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Kahoot!, a game-based student response system, is increasingly being incorporated into classrooms to maintain student engagement, improve classroom dynamics, and enhance learning outcomes. However, empirical studies exploring how using Kahoot! affects university students' learning, particularly in China, are scant. This exploratory, one-group,…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Technology Uses in Education, Student Reaction
Electronic Delivery of Lectures in the University Environment: An Empirical Comparison of Three Delivery Styles
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Stephenson, Julia E.; Brown, Clifford; Griffin, Darren K. – Computers & Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to consider the efficacy and popularity of "Virtual Lectures" (text-based, structured electronic courseware with information presented in manageable "chunks", interaction and multimedia) and "e-Lectures" (on-screen synchrony of PowerPoint slides and recorded voice) as alternatives to traditional lectures. We…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Reaction, Genetics, Lecture Method
Designing for Learning: Online Social Networks as a Classroom Environment
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Casey, Gail; Evans, Terry – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
This paper deploys notions of emergence, connections, and designs for learning to conceptualize high school students' interactions when using online social media as a learning environment. It makes links to chaos and complexity theories and to fractal patterns as it reports on a part of the first author's action research study, conducted while she…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Learning Processes, Classroom Environment
Questioning Techniques for the Classroom.
Karmos, Joseph S.; And Others – Illinois Schools Journal, 1990
Offers ideas for asking good questions in the classroom. Recommends that key questions be written down prior to class. Questions should clearly cue students to respond specifically and briefly. Presents examples of types of questions that have been found either to encourage or to inhibit thinking. (JS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes
Thank You for Asking: Classroom Assessment Techniques and Students' Perceptions of Learning.
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Fabry, Victoria J.; Eisenbach, Regina; Curry, Renee R.; Golich, Vicki L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1997
A study investigated the effect of classroom assessment techniques (CATs) on both content and process of college students' learning. Instructors ask students to provide regular, anonymous feedback about their understanding of course material and the effectiveness of class structure. Comments of students in biology, business management, political…
Descriptors: Biology, Business Administration Education, College Instruction, Formative Evaluation
Elaborative Interrogation Effects on Children's Learning of Factual Content.
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Wood, Eileen; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
The role of elaborative interrogation in children's learning of facts was investigated in 2 experiments involving 211 female and 185 male Canadian fourth through eighth graders. When compared to the facts alone, precise elaborations given by the experimenter, or learner-constructed imagery, elaborative interrogation produced better learning in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
Multimedia in Political Science: Sobering Lessons from a Teaching Experiment.
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Janda, Kenneth – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1992
Reports on a controlled experiment that tested the effectiveness of a multimedia method of instruction using a hypermedia-based program and interactive video against two alternative methods--traditional instruction and regular computer-assisted instruction--in a political science course at Northwestern University. Evaluation of the experiment and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction, Evaluation Methods