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Ngwabe, Abongile; Felix, Clyde – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
The literature shows that the integration of technological tools, like "GeoGebra," has the potential to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. The aim of this study was to see whether "GeoGebra" could be used to address identified, systematic misconceptions that National Certificate Vocational (NCV) students hold…
Descriptors: Intervention, Computer Software, Mathematics Instruction, Technology Integration
Likourezos, Vicki; Kalyuga, Slava – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
The variability effect occurs when learners' exposure to highly variable tasks results in better learning. It was hypothesised that learners who studied high variability worked examples would obtain higher post-test scores compared to learners who studied low variability examples, and learners who self-generated problem solutions for the same high…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Ability, Pretests Posttests, Learning Theories
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Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; Shivraj, Pooja; Basaraba, Deni; Yovanoff, Paul – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2019
Diagnostic assessments are intended to support teachers' instructional decision making by providing instructionally relevant information. In this article, we propose that using cognitive theories of learning to design diagnostic assessments can provide teachers with two diagnostic outcomes: (a) the location of a student's thinking within the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Learning Theories, Test Construction, Learning Processes
Gurbuz, Ramazan; Birgin, Osman; Catlioglu, Hakan – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of activities based on the Multiple Intelligence Theory (MIT) of seventh grade students' conceptual learning and their retention in two consecutive subjects, namely "The Circumference and the Area of a Circle" and "The Surface Area of the Vertical Cylinder". The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Multiple Intelligences
Romberg, Thomas A., Ed.; Stewart, Deborah M., Ed. – 1987
This document is the second of three related volumes. They present the rationale, background, and framework for a comprehensive monitoring system being developed for the National Science Foundation. The system is being designed to gather information about the effects of national, state, and local policy actions designed to change the teaching and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attitude Measures, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment