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Thomas de Hoop; Hannah Ring; Garima Siwach; Paula Dias; Gelson Tembo; Victoria Rothbard; Anaïs Toungui – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a multi-faceted program that integrates technology-aided instruction, teacher training and coaching, community ownership, and free primary education. Our setting is three districts in rural Zambia, where we randomly assigned the program across 30 treatment and 33 control schools. The results show…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Outcomes of Education, Community Schools, Rural Areas
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Arisanty, Deasy; Riyah – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2019
This research was conducted to analyze the application of make a match learning model to improve the learning outcome of geography in class X of SMA PGRI 4 Banjarmasin with the material of geography principles. This research employed a quasi-experimental design method, quantitative approach and non-equivalent of pre-test and post-test control…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups
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Sierra, Egoitz; Minguez, Rikardo; Solaberrieta, Eneko; Goikoetxea, Nestor; Iturrate, Mikel – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2019
This article shows the benefits of active learning compared to traditional learning. It proves the importance of a fruitful discussion between peers. It is a sample of methodological change with no curricular change. It also shows the overall satisfaction of the students, who achieved an equal or better academic performance than the students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Active Learning
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Vere?, Sanda; Magda?, Ioana – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2020
This research aims to analyse the process of grasping the Solar System by the students during their learning activities in which we used an animation film and other educational means (geographic globe, schematic drawings, 3D model, etc.), as well as the results obtained. In order to achieve this goal, we organized an action-research within…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Animation, Films
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Olelewe, Chijioke Jonathan; Agomuo, Emmanuel E.; Obichukwu, Peter Uzochukwu – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Achieving learner engagement in the teaching and learning process is paramount towards ensuring knowledge retention in QBASIC programming. This study focuses on effects of b-learning and face-to-face (F2F) on college students' engagement and retention in QBASIC programming. The study adopted quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent group…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Retention (Psychology), Programming
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Jeong, Jin Su; González-Gómez, David; Cañada-Cañada, Florentina; Gallego-Picó, Alejandrina; Bravo, Juan Carlos – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2019
Distance education programs in higher education are gaining popularity mostly due to the flexibility of the formative programs to fit all the requirements that brick-and-mortar educational institutions are not able to provide to students. However, quite often these distance programs report feelings of isolation, lack of self-direction and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
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Adorno, Dominique Persano; Pizzolato, Nicola; Fazio, Claudio – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
This paper investigates the efficacy of an open-inquiry approach to achieve a long term stability of physics instruction. This study represents the natural continuation of a research project started four years ago when a sample of thirty engineering undergraduates, having already attended traditional university physics instruction, were involved…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Yenen, Emin Tamer; Dursun, Fevzi – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2019
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the active learning approach on student achievement in the learning outcomes of the 'My Town' unit in the fifth-grade English course in a secondary school. The research was organized according to a quasi-experimental design with experimental and control groups. The experimental (n=34) and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Active Learning
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Cernusca, Dan; Mallik, Sanku – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2018
The focal course for this study, Pharmaceutics I, is a foundational course for the first year students (P1) enrolled in the in the PharmD program. It focuses on helping students create integrative bridges between the prepharm chemistry courses and the clinical courses in the PharmD curriculum. The main expected outcome of this course is that…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Active Learning, Student Improvement, Science Achievement
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Siswono, Tatag Yuli Eko; Hartono, Sugi; Kohar, Ahmad Wachidul – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of implementing Project Based Learning (PBL) on the topic of statistics at a lower secondary school in Surabaya city, Indonesia, indicated by examining student learning outcomes, student responses, and student activity. Research Methods: A quasi experimental method was conducted over two…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Pretests Posttests
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Cundiff, Jessica L.; Danube, Cinnamon L.; Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Shields, Stephanie A. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Women make up the majority of doctoral degree earners yet remain underrepresented in tenure-track positions within the academy. Gender disparities result in part from the accumulation of subtle, typically unintentional biases that pervade workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interactions that inadvertently favor men. However, the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Gender Bias, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Chen, Hong-Ren; Chen, Nian-Shing; Lin, Li-Kai; Chen, Jin-Wen – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Education research has shown that reflective study can efficiently enhance learning, and the acquisition of knowledge and skills from real-life situations has become a focus of interest for scholars. The knowledge-learning model based on verbal instruction, used in traditional classrooms, does not make use of real-life situations that encourage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Context Effect, Reflection
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Alghamdi, Amani K. Hamdan; Deraney, Philline – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This study highlights how teaching a research methods course to undergraduate students can be a successful endeavor when active learning is the main method of learning and teaching. In this study, the effectiveness of using active learning in the experimental group to achieve the learning outcomes and final product of a freshman-year writing and…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis
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Abu Warda, Mona Hamid – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2018
This article is aimed to investigating the influence of a web quest strategy on achievement, and whether collaborative learning can maximize the effectiveness of a web quest used as a medium in teaching and learning educational psychology among the female students at Al Majmaa University in Saudi Arabia. Quantitative and qualitative approaches…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Females
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Lin, Lu-Fang – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
This study investigated whether an English reading course integrated with the problem-based learning approach could foster foreign language learners' reading comprehension ability, strategy use, and their active learning attitudes. The pedagogy was featured with the small group scaffolding. Two intact English classes in a Taiwanese university were…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests
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