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Dalland, Cecilie P.; Klette, Kirsti – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This article explores how individualized teaching methods, such as the use of work plans, create new student strategies in Norwegian lower secondary classrooms. Work plans, which are frequently set up as instructional tools in Norwegian classrooms, outline different types of tasks and requirements that the students are supposed to do during a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques
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Irving, Paul W.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
We use the theory of communities of practice and the concept of accountable disciplinary knowledge to describe how a learning community develops in the context of an upper-division physics laboratory course. The change in accountable disciplinary knowledge motivates students' enculturation into a community of practice. The enculturation process is…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Communities of Practice, Time Factors (Learning)
Liaw, Meei-Ling – 1995
A study investigated the effectiveness of training students in think-aloud procedure to improve reading comprehension. Subjects were two groups of Taiwanese university students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In the first week, a think-aloud training session was given to one group. Then both groups were asked to read an English passage and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries