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Williams, Marjorie Dee – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how third through fifth-grade elementary school teachers within the southeastern United States describe using specific learning style strategies and students' classroom preferences during instruction. Grasha's Teaching Style Theory, Kolb's Learning Styles and Experiential Learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Cognitive Style, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
Mandy Dunphy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the dynamics of a formal classroom and an informal nature-based learning environment, focusing on their impact on student subjectification and knowledge authority. The study, conducted with a cohort of 27 fifth-grade students and their teacher, employs a comparative case study methodology to analyze how teaching…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Informal Education
Peyton Nicole Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem was the decline in executive functioning skills of Grade 5 students in a consolidated independent school district in suburban Austin, Texas since the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this qualitative critical instance case study was to better understand the perceptions of teachers regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the executive…
Descriptors: Executive Function, School Districts, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers
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Ali Yalçin; Selma Güleç – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2024
The activity-based social studies teaching is a learning process which applies activities prepared according to knowledge, skills, values and achievements and makes students actively participate. One of the most important goals of the social studies course is the activity-based teaching process, which is one of the ways to raise effective,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Social Environment, Grade 5, Secondary School Students
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Chen, Yu-Ting; Li, Ming; Huang, Chang-Qin; Han, Zhong-Mei; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Yang, Gang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Writing is a recording process involving complex dynamic behaviours, which is closely connected with authentic contexts. A free authentic context can form a link with students' life experience and their prior knowledge, so that students' deep writing skills can be stimulated. However, in traditional writing activities, the lack of authentic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Computer Simulation, Writing (Composition)
Tabbetha Harrison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative, non-experimental study was to determine if there is a difference in reading self-efficacy and perceived learning among fourth- and fifth-grade inner city students who participated in experiential learning and those that did not participate in experiential learning. Experiential learning is…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Self Efficacy, Literacy, Elementary School Students
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Tharathikoon Raha; Montree Wongsapan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This study introduces a novel learning management model aimed at enhancing Thai language proficiency in sixth-grade students. Confronting challenges such as inadequate teaching resources and a lack of student-centric, practical activities in current Thai language education, this model integrates six key components: foundational principles and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 6, Independent Study, Research and Development
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Gabriele Stupuriene; Tatjana Jevsikova; Yasemin Gülbahar; Anita Juškeviciene; Austeja Gindulyte; Agne Juodagalvyte – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The demand to incorporate informatics into primary education is seen as a critical necessity both today, and for the future of modern societies. Numerous countries are currently revising their primary education curricula in order to incorporate informatics concepts and computational thinking skills. Although many successful initiatives have been…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Education
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Porat, Erez; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar; Blau, Ina – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Introduction: Virtual worlds (VWs) are immersive three-dimensional environments, accessible simultaneously to multiple users, and described as shared, simulated spaces, whose inhabitants represented as avatars. VWs enable freedom of expression. Using VWs in educational contexts requires a shift from teacher-centered instruction to facilitation of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
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Li, Wei-Ting; Shein, Paichi Pat – Environmental Education Research, 2023
The life experiences of Indigenous students are often overlooked in school learning, thereby causing dissonance in learning. To address this issue, this study incorporated local and traditional ecological knowledges of community in this year-long course of 'place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development', using place-based design…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Indigenous Populations, Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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Lee, JiHye; Lee, Hyun-Kyung; Jeong, Dabin; Lee, JiEun; Kim, TaeRyun; Lee, JiHyon – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
Traditional museums of culture and history are failing to develop or make effective use of augmented reality (AR) technology. To address this deficit, the present study sought to develop online and offline experiential AR learning tools that would enable children to more fully explore museum artefacts. The study approach was based on the Blended…
Descriptors: Museums, Cultural Education, Computer Simulation, History Instruction
Nichole Danielle Viderman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to examine how 3rd-8th grade teachers describe their use of educational technology for experiential learning in mathematics in the Southwestern United States. David Kolb et al. (2001) experiential learning theory guided the two research questions on the level of use and how teachers described…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Experiential Learning, Grade 3, Grade 4
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May, Pamela L. – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This researcher has been greatly distressed, as fifth graders year after year have disregarded mental math strategies for the standard algorithm. Mathematically proficient students should be flexible, efficient and accurate when solving mental calculations. This researcher set out to find out how fifth graders' mental math practice improved their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Numeracy
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Girgin, Derya; Akgün, Nergis Ramo – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The NTC (Nikola Tesla Center) system of learning is an activity program designed to promote the development of motor skills and cognitive abilities in preschool and school-age children. This research aims to investigate the activity-based learning process prepared by NTC system of learning approach. In this qualitative research, case study design…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Experiential Learning, Grade 4
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Akkaya Yilmaz, Mavi; Karakus, Ufuk – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2018
The objective of this research is to examine the effectiveness of teaching the 6th grade (12-13 years old) social studies lessons' unit "Our Country's Resources" by place based teaching method on student achievement. This research was conducted in 2013-2014 academic year for six weeks in a public secondary school in Milas. In this…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Social Studies, Place Based Education, Program Effectiveness
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