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Mayer, Greg; Lingle, Jeremy; Usselman, Marion – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The question of how to best design an online course that promotes student-centred learning is an area of ongoing research. This mixed-methods study focused on a section of advanced high school students, in college-level mathematics courses, that used a synchronous online environment mediated over web-conferencing software, and whether the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Synchronous Communication, Online Courses, Student Experience
Scott, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the present action research study is to describe a hands-on activity model, named the Constructed Scaffold Model (CSM), used in an Advanced Placement Calculus class in a southeastern United States suburban high school. Data were collected over an 8-week period during the spring 2017 semester. The teacher-researcher developed a…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Models, Program Implementation, Hands on Science
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Béneker, Tine; van Dis, Hanneke; van Middelkoop, Daniel – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2014
This article reports the results of a study conducted to gain insight into the world-mindedness of young people living in the Netherlands. Two groups are compared: students attending "regular" Dutch schools and students attending international schools. A questionnaire measured the students' world-mindedness and their evaluation of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, International Schools, Conventional Instruction