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Winarno, Sri; Muthu, Kalaiarasi Sonai; Ling, Lew Sook – International Education Studies, 2018
Direct instruction approach has been widely used in higher education. Many studies revealed that direct instruction improved students' knowledge. The characteristics of direct instruction include the subject delivered through face-to-face interaction with the lecturers and materials that sequenced deliberately and taught explicitly. However,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Models, Creative Thinking, Teamwork
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Williams, Keith; Swift, Jennifer; Williams, Hefin; Van Daal, Victor – Educational Research, 2017
Background: This paper is a qualitative evaluation of a small-scale pilot study that attempted to generate parental involvement in children's learning. It used problem-solving mathematics homework in order to raise the children's self-efficacy, or, put another way, the child's belief that success lies in their own hands. Purpose: Homework is often…
Descriptors: Homework, Problem Solving, Parent Child Relationship, Qualitative Research
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Nguyen, Cathina T.; Fairclough, Diane L.; Noll, Robert B. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Problem-solving skills training is an intervention designed to teach coping skills that has shown to decrease negative affectivity (depressive symptoms, negative mood, and post-traumatic stress symptoms) in mothers of children with cancer. The objective of this study was to see whether mothers of children recently diagnosed with autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Problem Solving, Mothers
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Epstein, Baila – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Clinical problem-solving is fundamental to the role of the speech-language pathologist in both the diagnostic and treatment processes. The problem-solving often involves collaboration with clients and their families, supervisors, and other professionals. Considering the importance of cooperative problem-solving in the profession,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Communication Disorders
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Roy, Debopriyo; Brine, John; Murasawa, Fuyuki – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
The act of note-taking offloads cognitive pressure and note-taking applications could be used as an important tool for foreign language acquisition. Its use, importance, and efficacy in a foreign language learning context could be justifiably debated. However, existing computer-assisted language learning literature is almost silent on the topic.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Usability, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Frankel, Lois; Brownstein, Beth; Soiffer, Neil – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
This report describes the pilot conducted in the final phase of a project, Expanding Audio Access to Mathematics Expressions by Students With Visual Impairments via MathML, to provide easy-to-use tools for authoring and rendering secondary-school algebra-level math expressions in synthesized speech that is useful for students with blindness or low…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Research Reports, Audiovisual Aids, Assistive Technology
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Ylven, Regina; Granlund, Mats; Persson, Carina – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2012
Problem solving is recognized as a skill, helping families of children with disabilities to manage problems in everyday life. Family problem-solving skills may therefore be seen as an important outcome of a child and youth habilitation service. The aim of this pilot feasibility study was to examine the design of a future web-based questionnaire…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Problem Solving, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Nugent, Mary; Jones, Valerie; McElroy, Deirdre; Peelo, Mary; Thornton, Teresa; Tierney, Theresa – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
This article reports on a two year project in which educational psychologists offered consultation to groups of teachers, to help them find solutions to school-based problems. Teachers were drawn from within individual schools and from across a number of schools. Typically, teachers were trained by educational psychologists in group consultation…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Consultation Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Batty, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to document the factors (i.e., motivation and perceived constraints) and processes (i.e., constraint negotiation) that influence students' selection of and satisfaction with their internship choice. The study was conducted using a quantitative approach, which included a focus group, a pilot study, and a…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Undergraduate Students, Preferences, Student Motivation
Louis, Karen Seashore; Sieber, Sam D. – 1972
The present paper is the first in a series dealing with the development of the role of the educational field agent, and deals exclusively with issues relating to gaining initial access and soliciting requests from local educators. The first issue facing each field agent was how to sell his services to the educational community. Initial activities…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Educational Programs, Field Experience Programs
Welch, Wayne W.; Ward, William H., Jr. – 1975
This study was designed to assess two projects implemented by the Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) program. The program is based on the belief that elementary school students learn mathematics, science, social science, and language arts skills quickly by investigating practical problems taken from the local school and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education
Hecht, Deborah; Tittle, Carol Kehr – 1990
The Mathematics Assessment Questionnaire was designed to sample thoughts and feelings of students in grades 7 through 9 in relation to solving mathematical word problems. Test development studies began in 1986-87 with a review of research and literature and the writing of sample statements that were evaluated by 16 experienced teachers and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Data Collection, Grade 7, Grade 8