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Mitchell, Jeannette C.; Mitchell, Johanna E. – American Journal of Business Education, 2017
This study evaluates an interactive web-based homework designed to increase student understanding in a principles of microeconomics course. Employing concepts from Action Research, the preliminary investigation was undertaken based on assumptions about the efficacy of online educational resources. Do students who do well on online homework improve…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Homework, Economics Education, Microeconomics
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Kee, Chang Peng; Osman, Kamisah; Ahmad, Fauziah – International Education Studies, 2013
Statistical analysis is one component that cannot be avoided in a quantitative research. Initial observations noted that students in higher education institution faced difficulty analysing quantitative data which were attributed to the confusions of various variable measurements. This paper aims to compare the outcomes of two approaches applied in…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation
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Virgin, Robb – Social Studies, 2014
Many school districts across North America have turned to a framework for curriculum design and instruction called "Understanding by Design." Included in the framework is a call for teachers to create "essential questions" that provocatively ask students to consider and learn the "big ideas and core processes within the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Curriculum Design, Questioning Techniques, Learner Controlled Instruction
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Akbiyik, Cenk – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
Throughout this study, tutorial and demonstration methods in photo editing instruction were compared. The instruction method was the independent variable of the study while cognitive load, state anxiety level, student performance, student achievement, and task duration were dependent variables. The research was conducted with 62 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Computer Science Education
Womack, Sid T.; Hanna, Shellie L. – Online Submission, 2010
This action study investigated the effects of a textbook and gender upon the acquisition of exceptionalities content knowledge in an undergraduate teacher education course. In a course where teacher education content, tests and testing procedures, and grading procedures for assignments were held constant across three teaching conditions, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Textbooks, Grading
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Halai, Anjum – Educational Action Research, 2004
In recent years, a discourse is emerging in education that emphasises the study of the impact of in-service teacher education on student outcomes (more often than not student outcomes are seen in the form of test scores of academic achievement). Implicit in this discourse is the view that the impact of in-service teacher education is directly…
Descriptors: Action Research, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods