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Verónica Marín Díaz; Begoña Esther Sampedro; Inmaculada Aznar; Juan Manuel Trujillo – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: The beliefs about this subject of N = 223 secondary education teachers were collected through an ex post facto research method using a descriptive and correlational design and a 27-item questionnaire. Design/methodology/approach: The arrival of online learning, in this case m-learning, to secondary education, has made educators in this…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Integration, Handheld Devices, Secondary School Teachers
Jared Mark August – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study addresses current trends in theological higher education by proposing a potentially viable mechanism for institutional reform, namely the Montessori method. Although Maria Montessori is widely known as an early childhood educator, this study suggests that her approach aligns quite well with the telos of theological education, the…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Higher Education, Montessori Method, Alignment (Education)
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Gómez, Ricardo L.; Suárez, Ana María – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: Inquiry-based teaching (IBT) and improving school climate are the two most commonly used strategies for fostering learning and critical thinking skills in students. IBT has positioned itself as one of the most recommended "active" methodologies for developing intellectual autonomy and complex thought processes, whereas school…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking
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Turgut, Sedat; Turgut, Ilknur Gülsen – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
Each child will not become senior mathematicians in the future but all children have the right to get learning opportunities which he/she can develop his/her mathematical understanding at school. The success of children in mathematics is closely related to how they are taught mathematics. At this point, the role of teaching mathematics stands out…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics
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Zhang, Zhiguang; Kuzik, Nicholas; Adamo, Kristi B.; Ogden, Nancy; Goldfield, Gary S.; Okely, Anthony D.; Crozier, Mitchell; Hunter, Stephen; Predy, Madison; Carson, Valerie – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Child care centers are important for children's behaviors. Aims: To examine the cross-sectional associations between child care environmental characteristics and physical activity and sedentary time in children. Methods: Participants were 124 toddlers and 118 preschoolers from 19 centers in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Care, Educational Environment, Rating Scales
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Christensen, Jacob Højgaard; Wistoft, Karen – Health Education Journal, 2022
Introduction: "My Cookery" is a children's cookery book that aims to enhance children's joy of cooking and develop their cooking skills. It has been distributed to more than 450,000 children in Denmark. The development of the book was infomed by research into food education approaches that are generally known to enhance student outcomes…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Books
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Tao, Ting; Shi, Jiannong – High Ability Studies, 2018
The education of gifted children is of considerable interest. The present study focused on the effect of enriched education on intellectually gifted children's attention. In the present study, 7-12-year-old children completed seven tests of attention (alertness, focused attention, divided attention, attentional switching, sustained attention,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Preadolescents, Educational Environment
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Mazana, Mzomwe Yahya; Montero, Calkin Suero; Casmir, Respickius Olifage – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2019
Students' learning of and performance in mathematics is affected by a number of factors, including students' attitude towards the subject, teachers instructional practices, and school environment. This study was conducted to investigate students' attitudes towards learning mathematics in Tanzania. It also sought to ascertain reasons for the liking…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students
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López-Peláez, María Paz; Martínez-Morales, María; Moreno-Montoro, María Isabel; Tirado de la Chica, Ana – Educational Review, 2018
"Historias de mi barrio" is a piece of pedagogic research aimed at highlighting the way art can articulate the relationship between the educational context and a neighbourhood at high risk of social exclusion. The starting point for this study was to ask whether this type of research, centred around the arts, was suitable in complex…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Educational Environment, Social Isolation, Artists
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Ozgul, Fatih; Kangalgil, Murat; Diker, Gurkan; Yamen, Erturk – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this research is to evaluate the constructivist learning environments of physical education and sport teacher candidates. For this purpose, 928 students (523 male, 405 female) selected by the appropriate sampling method from the Physical Education and Sport Teaching Department of 17 universities consisted the sample of the research. In…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Scores, Constructivism (Learning)
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Guterman, Oz; Neuman, Ari – Reading Psychology, 2019
The homeschool framework differs significantly from the traditional school setting. Earlier research has shown differences between homeschooled and other children in language skills, but no study has examined how homeschooling is related to the acquisition of the different components of reading. The present research examined several reading…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Language Skills, Comparative Analysis, Reading Skills
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Ramsin, Araya; Mayall, Hayley – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2019
This quasi-experimental quantitative study examined the effects of different multimedia learning environments on the learning outcomes of second language learners. The study was designed to specifically assess Mayer's redundancy principle by investigating whether there was a difference in performance outcomes of second language learners…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Pearson, 2020
This survey was conducted on behalf of Pearson from June 8-14, 2020 by The Harris Poll, a global market research firm based in New York City with over 50 years of history in polling. This 20-minute online survey was completed by 7,038 people aged between 16-70 years old across the globe. All data in this report show general online population data…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies, Age Differences, Gender Differences
Eren, Zeynep – Online Submission, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to examine the perceptions of pedagogical formation teacher candidates about the safe and supportive school climate according to various variables. The population of the research, which was designed in the descriptive survey model, was composed of the pedagogical formation teacher candidates of the Faculty of Education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, School Safety, Student Attitudes
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Illeris, Knud – European Journal of Education, 2015
This article is an account of how the author developed a comprehensive understanding of human learning over a period of almost 50 years. The learning theory includes the structure of learning, different types of learning, barriers of learning as well as how individual dispositions, age, the learning environment and general social and societal…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Teaching Experience, Barriers, Age Differences
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