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Gordani, Yahya; Khajavi, Yaser – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Although there is a wide range of studies on the use of PowerPoint Presentations (PPP) in different fields, few studies have investigated the effects of different aspects of multi-modal PowerPoint presentation on the language comprehension of foreign language students. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of PowerPoint-supported…
Descriptors: Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kinoshita, Timothy J.; Knight, David B.; Gibbes, Badin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Burgeoning college enrolments and insufficient funding to higher education have expanded the use of large lecture courses. As this trend continues, it is important to ensure that students can still learn in those challenging learning environments. Within education broadly and undergraduate engineering specifically, active learning pedagogies have…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Engineering Education, Lecture Method, Undergraduate Students
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Yahaya, Jamil Mikhail; Nurulazam, Ahmad; Karpudewan, Mageswary – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
A socioscientific issues integrated instruction was used in the study to resolve college students attitude towards sexually-themed science content. Some 200 college students participated in the study as experimental and control groups. The former consisting of 98 students from one college was taught the content using the socioscientific issues…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Sexuality, Course Content
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Mooneyhan, Andy – International Journal on E-Learning, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare the traditional teaching method of Concepts of Fitness (CF) with a teaching method using the Internet as an instructional supplement. Participants in the study were 52 students (27 male, 25 female) from a four-year institution of higher learning. Participants were enrolled in a required, general education…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Course Content, Internet, Teaching Methods
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Stanisavljevic, Jelena; Djuric, Dragan – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of models of programmed instruction and conventional (informative-illustrative) expository teaching in terms of fulfilling the aims of the course "Human anatomy and physiology" which is included in the physiology programme and designed for undergraduate students majoring in biology…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physiology, Anatomy, Biology
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Yang, Ya-Ting C.; Wu, Wan-Chi I. – Computers & Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of Digital storytelling (DST) on the academic achievement, critical thinking, and learning motivation of senior high school students learning English as a foreign language. The one-year study adopted a pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design involving 110 10th grade students in two English…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Knight, Jennifer K.; Wood, William B. – Cell Biology Education, 2005
We carried out an experiment to determine whether student learning gains in a large, traditionally taught, upper-division lecture course in developmental biology could be increased by partially changing to a more interactive classroom format. In two successive semesters, we presented the same course syllabus using different teaching styles: in…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Student Participation, Cooperative Learning, Course Content
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Love, Tanzy; Keinert, Fritz; Shelley, Mack – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2006
The Department of Mathematics at Iowa State University teaches a freshman-level Discrete Mathematics course with total enrollment of about 1,800 students per year. The traditional format includes large lectures, with about 150 students each, taught by faculty and temporary instructors in two class sessions per week and recitation sections, with…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Lecture Method, Web Based Instruction