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Lin, Yen-Nan; Hsia, Lu-Ho – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
Billiards is a sport that not only requires numerous skills, but also emphasizes the strategies of planning the path of the contact and shot. Traditional billiards training mainly focuses on skills practicing, while the strategies for facing different kinds of challenges in billiards competitions are usually ignored. Therefore, referring to social…
Descriptors: Games, Training, Skill Development, Telecommunications
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Harmon, Jon; Warnakulasooriya, Rasil – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The Additive Factor Model (AFM) is a cognitive diagnostic model that can be used to predict student performance on items in a context that allows for student learning. Within AFM, "skills" have a learning rate, and student acquisition of a skill depends only on the number of opportunities a student has had to exercise that skill and the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Factor Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory
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Guo, Jianpeng – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2019
One of the biggest barriers preventing teachers from utilizing the flipped classroom approach in their teaching practices is the lack of a general and practical framework for guiding the design and implementation of flipped classrooms. This leads to the fact that the effectiveness of the flipped classroom approach is unconfirmed. Building on…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Undergraduate Students
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Chiang, Tosti Hsu-Cheng; Yang, Stephen J. H.; Yin, Chengjiu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Physical education emphasizes learning sports skills, which is why it is usually conducted in a face-to-face manner. Instructors focus on explaining rules and demonstrating moves, which the learners are required to repeat and imitate. Flipped classrooms have become a trend; thus, the present study investigated their influence on physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Team Sports, Gender Differences, Homework
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Kuzu, Esat; Özkan, Yonca; Bada, Erdogan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
English preparatory programs play a critical role in preparing students for their departments that offer English medium instruction. Therefore, investigating such programs has gained great significance as such an investigation provides us with critical information about how well the programs are functioning to achieve the desired outcomes. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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Lin, Yen-Nan; Hsia, Lu-Ho; Sung, Meng-Yuan; Hwang, Gwo-Haur – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Dance courses aim to not only intensify learners' dance skills, but also cultivate their personal dancing features, self-confidence, self-reflection ability, creative power, appreciation ability, to name just a few, in order to attain much higher level artistic performance. In the present study, an approach which integrates mobile peer assessment…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Self Efficacy, Skill Development, Student Satisfaction
Afterschool Alliance, 2021
While data for the 2020 edition of America After 3PM were collected pre-pandemic, to accompany the data and determine how the pandemic has affected families' needs during the hours after school, the Afterschool Alliance commissioned a nationally representative follow-up survey of parents in October 2020. The follow-up survey found that afterschool…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, After School Programs, Family Needs, COVID-19
Joshua M. Langberg; Melissa R. Dvorsky; Stephen J. Molitor; Elizaveta Bourchtein; Laura D. Eddy; Zoe R. Smith; Lauren E. Oddo; Hana-May Eadeh – Grantee Submission, 2017
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of 2 brief school-based interventions targeting the homework problems of adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--the Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) intervention and the Completing Homework by Improving Efficiency and Focus (CHIEF) intervention, as implemented by…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Theory Practice Relationship, Intervention, Homework
Koyama, Takanori – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study was conducted as a program evaluation of an existing social skills program. A review of literature identified a limited number of empirical studies on group-based social skills training for young children with social delays. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of social skills groups as well as the effects of homework…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Program Evaluation, Observation, Program Effectiveness
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Molina, Brooke S. G.; Flory, Kate; Bukstein, Oscar G.; Greiner, Andrew R.; Baker, Jennifer L.; Krug, Vicky; Evans, Steven W. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008
Objective: This pilot study tests the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an after-school treatment program for middle schoolers with ADHD using a randomized clinical trial design. Method: A total of 23 students with ADHD (25% female, 48% African American) from a large public middle school were randomly assigned to a 10-week program or to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Homework, School Activities, Academic Achievement
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Kohl, Patrick B.; Finkelstein, Noah D. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
In a recent study we showed that physics students' problem-solving performance can depend strongly on problem representation, and that giving students a choice of problem representation can have a significant impact on their performance [ P. B. Kohl and N. D. Finklestein, Phys. Rev. ST. Phys. Educ. Res. 1, 010104 (2005) ] In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Physics, Program Effectiveness, Problem Solving, Science Process Skills
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1990
Project PRIDE (Providing Resources and Information Designed to Educate) is an after school tutorial program for approximately 70 grade 7 to 9 Hispanic junior high school students attending the School District of the City of Saginaw. The project is intended to provide an after school center for help with school work. The instructional goals include…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dropout Prevention, Hispanic Americans
Hall, Georgia; Israel, Laura; Shortt, Joyce – National Institute on Out-of-School Time, 2004
There is solid consensus among researchers, program providers, and families that participation in constructive activities during out-of-school time hours can contribute to a youth's healthy and positive development. This paper explores some of the key issues and challenges facing program and city leaders in creating and sustaining afterschool…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Urban Areas, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development