NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)0
Since 2006 (last 20 years)13
Audience
Practitioners1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Attitude Scale16
Noncognitive Questionnaire1
SAT (College Admission Test)1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 16 results Save | Export
Akay, Sumeyye Ozbey; Kaya, Basturk; Kilic, Selda – Online Submission, 2012
The aim of the present study is to support, enrich, and broaden the process of education using concept maps and to determine the effects of concept maps in biology classes on school success, attitude and retention of the knowledge taught. The present study was conducted as an experimental study with pre-test and post-test control groups. The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Concept Mapping, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Taslidere, Erdal; Eryilmaz, Ali – Research in Science Education, 2012
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the combined and partial effects of the Integrated Reading/Study Strategy and Conceptual Physics Approach on ninth grade private high school students' achievement in and attitudes toward optics. The Integrated Reading/Study Strategy is a new strategy which was developed by integrating previously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Student Attitudes, Reading Strategies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Campbell, Todd; Zhang, Danhui; Neilson, Drew – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
This study considers whether Model Based Inquiry (MBI) is a suitable mechanism for facilitating science as inquiry to allow students to develop deep understandings of difficult concepts, while also gaining better understandings of science process and the nature of science. This manuscript also considers time devoted to MBI in comparison to more…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ulusoy, Kadir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
In this study, whether the multimedia in the history lesson affects the students' attitude towards this lesson or not has been studied. With this object, whether there is a difference among the point averages that students take from the preliminary test and whether there is a difference among the point averages that students take from the last…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Multimedia Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Behera, Santosh Kumar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Today we are living in an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) era. All over the world, there is a trend to use ICT in the teaching-learning process. The teacher and learner must gain access to technology for improving learning outcomes. ICT is a new paradigm of the teaching-learning process widely accepted as a necessary tool for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Electronic Learning, College Faculty
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sad, Suleyman Nihat – Computers & Education, 2012
The main purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the attitudes of elementary students towards smart board (SB) use in education. A sequential exploratory mixed method was used. So the study started with a qualitative approach to establish the content and face validity of the scale, followed by a quantitative approach to test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Test Validity, Factor Analysis
Akkuzu, Nalan; Akcay, Husamettin – Online Submission, 2011
This study describes the analogical models and narratives used to introduce and teach Grade 9 chemical covalent compounds which are relatively abstract and difficult for students. We explained each model's development during the lessons and analyzed understanding students derived from these learning materials. In this context, achievement,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Richardson, Rita Coombs; Myran, Steve P.; Tonelson, Steve – International Journal of Special Education, 2009
This study evaluated the impact of a social skills curriculum on the social behaviors of students in two pre-kindergarten classrooms. Participating were 30 students in a program based at a university child study center. The average age of the participants was four years ten months. The income levels of the families varied from low social economic…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Test Results, Age, Intervention
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gottschall, Holli; Garcia-Bayonas, Mariche – Educational Research Quarterly, 2008
Group work is a widely used teaching technique in higher education. Faculty find themselves utilizing this method in their classes more and more, yet few studies examine what students actually think about group work. The current study surveyed Mathematics, Education, and Business Administration majors at a mid-sized southeastern university in…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tastan, Ozgecan; Yalcinkaya, Eylem; Boz, Yezdan – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2008
The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of conceptual change text instruction (CCT) in the context of energy in chemical reactions. The subjects of the study were 60, 10th grade students at a high school, who were in two different classes and taught by the same teacher. One of the classes was randomly selected as the experimental…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Chemistry
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Galanouli, Despina; Murphy, Colette; Gardner, John – Computers and Education, 2004
Over several decades the major thrust in the school sector of countries across the world has been the search for ways in which teachers can be convinced that ICT should be an integral part of their teaching strategy. Various approaches have been tried including the dissemination of good practice and the investment in infrastructure and equipment.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Tandogan, Ruhan Ozkardes; Orhan, Akinoglu – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of problem-based active learning in science education on students' academic achievement and concept learning. In the study, both quantitative and qualitative research methods were utilized. Quantitative data were obtained via the pre/post-test, treatment-control groups test model. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7, Teaching Methods
Sedlacek, William E. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2004
William E. Sedlacek--one of the nation's leading authorities on the topic of noncognitive assessment--challenges the use of the SAT and other standardized tests as the sole assessment tool for college and university admissions. In this book, Sedlacek presents a noncognitive assessment method that can be used in concert with the standardized tests.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scoring, Questionnaires, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zhang, Yixin – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate distance learning variables and their possible contributions to successful distance learning receptivity. The variables used in this study included gender, age, computer experience, learning style, and students taking an educational technology (EDTC) course and students taking a statistics (non-EDTC)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Distance Education, Prior Learning, Educational Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Akinoglu, Orhan; Tandogan, Ruhan Özkardes – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of problem-based active learning in science education on students' academic achievement and concept learning. In the study, both quantitative and qualitative research methods were utilized. Quantitative data were obtained via the pre/post-test, treatment-control groups test model. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7, Teaching Methods
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2