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Burke, Lisa A.; Ray, Ruth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Evidence suggests that college students' concentration levels are limited and hard to maintain. Even though relevant in higher education, scant empirical research exists on interventions to "re-set" their concentration during a college lecture. Using a within-subjects design, four active learning interventions are administered across two…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Active Learning, Intervention, Student Attitudes
Albright, Lucille; And Others – 1995
This Master's degree project developed a program for decreasing disruptive student behavior in order to increase the amount of on-task time in the classroom. Types and occurrences of disruptive behavior were documented over a 6-week period in two classrooms at each of two junior high schools (grades 6-8) in Illinois. Analysis of the data revealed…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Adolescent Development, Behavior Problems