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Ayodele Abosede Ogegbo; Mafor Penn; Umesh Ramnarain; Oniccah Pila; Christo Van Der Westhuizen; Noluthando Mdlalose; Ivan Moser; Martin Hlosta; Per Bergamin – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study investigated how pre-service teachers perceive and plan to use a virtual reality classroom for science teaching during microteaching practices. The UTAUT 2 model was adopted as the conceptual framework for this study. Data were collected through an online survey from eighty-three pre-service science teachers from a large metropolitan…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Computer Simulation, Science Instruction
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Makransky, Guido; Wismer, Philip; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2019
The main objective of this study is to determine whether boys and girls learn better when the characteristics of the pedagogical agent are matched to the gender of the learner while learning in immersive virtual reality (VR). Sixty-six middle school students (33 females) were randomly assigned to learn about laboratory safety with one of two…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Gender Differences, Computer Simulation
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Bullion-Mears, Ann; McCauley, Joyce K.; McWhorter, J. YeVette – Science Scope, 2007
Performing text in the form of choral reading, rap, reader's theatre, and/or simulations offers students a powerful vehicle for understanding and recalling key concepts and significant details culled from textual materials. Creating a script, poem, or lyrics to perform requires repeated readings of a text, a practice that increases participants'…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Theater Arts, Educational Strategies