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Temiz, Ceren Nur; Sivrikaya, Ahmet Haktan – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2023
This study aimed to measure the success of teaching volleyball in the physical education course with the mind map technique. The study employed a quasi-experimental pre-posttest design with an experimental group and a control group. The study was completed with a total of 66 students, including 33 students in the experimental group and 33 in the…
Descriptors: Students, Physical Education, Cognitive Mapping, Thinking Skills
Li, Xing; Xie, Kui; Vongkulluksn, Vanessa; Stein, David; Zhang, Yi – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
Computational Thinking (CT) is regarded as a crucial competency for all children in the 21st century. There are misconceptions about CT which confounds CT skills with programming skills. However, CT skills and programming skills are not the same. CT is a broader skillset of cognitive thinking that is integral to complex problem solving. Teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Self Concept
Maskur, Ruhban; Sumarno; Rahmawati, Yasinta; Pradana, Kenny; Syazali, Muhamad; Septian, Ari; Kinarya Palupi, Endah – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The development of the revolution era 4.0 which increasingly rapidly demands the wider community to have the ability to think creatively mathematically. One effort to improve the ability to think creatively is through quality education. Quality education can be improved through to train thinking using the right learning model. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Problem Based Learning, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Mathematics Instruction
Rohaeti, Euis Eti; Bernard, Martin; Primandhika, Restu Bias – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2019
This research is a merged descriptive and quasi-experiment research aimed to describe students' creativity in developing interactive learning media with Visual Basic Application for Excel. Besides that, it had done to review students' ability which learning used open-ended Visual Basic Application for Excel compared with the other students' which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Creativity
Ganesan, Nanteni; Eu, Leong Kwan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
In this era, the rapid development of computer science and new technologies of information and communication is high hence there is need to introduce the concept of instructional software for teaching and learning statistical reasoning. This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of Fathom based Instruction in Enhancing Statistical…
Descriptors: Courseware, Teaching Methods, Statistics, Pretests Posttests
Vere?, Sanda; Magda?, Ioana – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2020
This research aims to analyse the process of grasping the Solar System by the students during their learning activities in which we used an animation film and other educational means (geographic globe, schematic drawings, 3D model, etc.), as well as the results obtained. In order to achieve this goal, we organized an action-research within…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Animation, Films
Kipman, Ulrike; Kühberger, Anton; Pletzer, Belinda – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: There is little research on how to best introduce children to stochastics. In general, demonstration and concrete experience seem to be necessary to establish good understanding of stochastics in children. Pupils seem to be able to develop an intuition on stochastic thinking when they actively solve probabilistic problems and carry out…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
Ertürkler, Aysen; Bagci, Hakan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The aim of this study is to reveal a new and unique technique that can be used in music lessons and other courses and to determine the impact of the Enriched Creative Activities Program with the Aytürk Technique, which was developed by Ertürkler, on the creative thinking abilities of students. The study was designed according to a pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, Music, Music Education
Saputri, Wulandari; Corebima, Aloysius D.; Susilo, Herawati; Suwono, Hadi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Research on critical thinking skills has been frequently carried out, but it has not shown maximum results. This problem is exacerbated by the differences in pre-service teachers' academic abilities. A new learning model that can improve pre-service teachers' critical thinking skills and reduce the gap in critical thinking skills among the upper,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Preservice Teachers
Akbas, Yavuz; Sahin, Ibrahim Fevzi; Meral, Elif – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the argumentation-based science learning approach on students' academic achievements and examine student views about use of this approach in social studies. We used a mixed methods research design to document changes as a result of an argumentation-based science learning approach…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Grade 7
Premo, Joshua; Cavagnetto, Andy; Honke, Garrett; Kurtz, Kenneth J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
The idea that characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime can be inherited by offspring and result in evolution is a substantial impediment to student understanding of evolution. In the current study, we performed a preliminary examination of how acquiring physical changes in a question prompt may differentially cue intuitive and…
Descriptors: Evolution, Genetics, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
Hattan, Courtney – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
Students' ability to comprehend what they read is greatly influenced by what they already know and have experienced. For this reason, teachers work to activate students' background knowledge prior to reading. Regrettably, the pedagogical techniques available to teachers for activating students' knowledge are quite limited. Further, those available…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Background, Student Characteristics, Knowledge Level
Fisher, Molly H.; Thomas, Jonathan; Jong, Cindy; Schack, Edna O.; Dueber, David – School Science and Mathematics, 2019
This paper examines the implementation of an instructional module on preservice elementary teachers' professional noticing of children's mathematical thinking. The module focuses on professional noticing skills through the content focus of early algebraic reasoning and uses complex video vignettes from whole class instruction in authentic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Teachers
Navaneedhan, Cittoor Girija; Kamalanabhan, T. J. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2017
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research, or simply through auto didacticism, Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Didacticism, Thinking Skills, Figurative Language
Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi; Alqatnani, Alaeddin Khalid – TESOL Journal, 2019
This study examines the potential effect of a Thinking Maps®--based treatment on the creative reading skills (viz., fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration) of Jordanian learners of English as a foreign language. The researchers drew a purposeful sample of two intact 10th-grade sections (N = 57) from a public school in Zarqa, Jordan.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Control Groups