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Brown, Robert W.; Covault, Corbin E. – Physics Teacher, 2015
An old comedy routine on Saturday Night Live by Father Guido Sarducci introduced a "Five-Minute University," because five minutes is all that's remembered after graduation anyway. In counterpoint, we discuss "cycling," a teaching method for memory enhancement. Our principal implementation consists of offering a simple version…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Teaching Methods, Memory
Cho, Euna – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The present study examined the effects of multimedia enhancement in video form in addition to textual information on L2 vocabulary instruction for high-level, low-frequency English words among Korean learners of English. Although input-based incidental learning of L2 vocabulary through extensive reading has been conventionally believed to be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology), Multimedia Instruction
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Liaghat, Farahnaz; Biria, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aimed at exploring the impact of mentor text modelling on Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' accuracy and fluency in writing tasks with different cognitive complexity in comparison with two conventional approaches to teaching writing; namely, process-based and product-based approaches. To this end, 60 Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2010
A mathematical metaphor for the power teaching prototype, P=fm expresses interactive factors that might characterize 21st Education given President Obama's "Blueprint for Reform: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act." That is the more global perspective taken in this occasional paper. The factors become Ellen…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Research Papers (Students), Multiple Intelligences, Figurative Language
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Ferguson, Janet; Tryjankowski, Anne Marie – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
This study examined performance of Master's-level students in an online course in Cognition, Learning and Assessment and compared it with the performance of students in a face-to-face classroom setting of the same course (N = 70). Data were collected from six sections of the course over a two-year period. The same professor taught all sections.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Statistical Analysis, Conventional Instruction
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Frost, Janet Hart; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2007
Females, students of color, and students of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underserved or marginalized in mathematics education. However, some instructional approaches and intervention programs have been shown to educate these students more equitably. This study examines how girls of diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Females