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Palos, Steve – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to determine how, and to what degree learning methods (student-centered or instructor-centered) and gender independently or interactively made a difference in adult student achievement. The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Third Edition (WIAT-III) was utilized to measure…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Gender Differences, Adult Students, Academic Achievement
Andreopoulou, Panagiota; Moustakas, Loukas – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2019
Learning is essential throughout human life. Accordingly, teachers and educators seek ways to strengthen learning. The use of play in the learning process seems to promote learning. Therefore, this research attempts to study how the integration of play in the learning process favors skills upgrading, using the quantitative research method and in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Skill Development, Elementary School Teachers
Jessica H. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Discipleship, a primary charge of the Church, involves teaching and learning. In order to disciple well, the Church and its clergy must consider how to teach content so that adults learn effectively. This consideration ought to begin in seminary, the primary source of educational preparation for Anglican clergy. Research is needed to identify the…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Readiness, Clergy, Adult Learning
Hungwe, Chipo; Mugari, Zvenyika Eckson; Hungwe, Elda – Educational Gerontology, 2023
This paper employs textual analysis to explain how older adults are depicted in children's textbooks at primary school with specific focus on grade 3 level which is the beginning of Junior school at primary level. Because these textbooks are studied throughout the country, this discussion provides a picture of the national situation in so far as…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Illustrations, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
Warkineh, Turuwark Zalalam; Rogers, Alan; Danki, Tolera Negassa – International Review of Education, 2018
Teachers/facilitators in adult literacy learning programmes are recognised as being vital to successful learning outcomes. But little is known about them as a group. This small-scale research project comprising ethnographic-style case studies of five adult literacy facilitators (ALFs) in Ethiopia seeks to throw some light on these teachers, their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Ethnography, Case Studies
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro; Ventura, Geovanny – Online Submission, 2018
The goal of this research is to determine the effectiveness of Grammar-Translation Method on EFL adult learners. The sample of this investigation was based on 30 graduated students as a universe and a sample of 15 which represent the 50% in which 9 of them were female who represent the 60% and 6 male who represent the 40% from Impact Languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Heinrich, Jill; Bostwick, Kerry – Educational Review, 2023
By repositioning the salonniere as a progressive, feminist educator who employed a constructivist framework to regulate the discourse of the male philosophes who frequented her salon space, this article offers a new vantage point from which to examine her influence on the Enlightenment cause. Feminist historians have insightfully analysed the…
Descriptors: Feminism, Gender Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Philosophy
LeBaron, Ashley B.; Holmes, Erin K.; Jorgensen, Bryce L.; Bean, Roy A. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2020
The purpose of this article was to determine whether overt financial education from parents during childhood (retrospective measure collected in the same survey wave) is associated with a greater frequency of healthy financial management behaviors in emerging adulthood, and whether this relationship is dependent on gender. Using a sample of…
Descriptors: Money Management, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Young Adults
Raju, Shiny Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between mathematics anxiety and academic performance among developmental mathematics students attending a Northeastern community college. In particular, the study examined the relationship between mathematics anxiety, according to gender and age. The purpose of mixed method case study was two fold:…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Remedial Instruction
Clover, Darlene E.; Sanford, K. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
Arguing gender inequity remains one of the biggest challenges of our time, and framed within the concept of "pedagogic contact zones", our article shares findings from a five-year feminist, cross-national study of women adult educators and community practitioners in public museums and art galleries in Canada and the United Kingdom.…
Descriptors: Feminism, Museums, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Rincon Flores, Elvira G.; Mena, Juanjo; Ramírez Montoya, María Soledad; Ramirez Velarde, Raul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Open access education has significantly grown in strength as a new way of fostering innovation in schools. Such is the case of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which have the added benefit of encouraging the democratisation of learning. In this sense, the Bi-National Laboratory on Smart Sustainable Energy Management and Technology Training…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Games, Educational Technology
Namaziandost, Ehsan; Sabzevari, Amir; Hashemifardnia, Arash – Cogent Education, 2018
This study examined the impact of using cultural materials on listening comprehension among male and female Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 96 upper-intermediate male (n = 48) and female (n = 48) EFL learners out of 130, were chosen through administering an Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT). The participants of each gender were randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
Awaru, A. Octamaya Tenri – Online Submission, 2020
False interpretations of sex make sex education less prioritized by parents in educating their children. This condition is considered as the cause of increased child abuse, violence, and sex crimes. This research aims to reveal the social construction of parents' sexual education Bugis-Makassar families. The research used a qualitative approach…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes
Elkoshi, Rivka – Music Education Research, 2021
This study deals with the meaning that musicians and non-musicians attach to two contemporary railway noise compositions as conveyed through verbal and audio-graphic responses. The purpose of this mixed-method study was twofold: (1) to examine similarities and differences between musicians and non-musicians in their responses to contemporary…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Music Education, Musical Composition, Audio Equipment
Colin Harrison; Greg Brooks; P. David Pearson; Sari Sulkunen; Renata Valtin – European Union, 2025
This joint NESET-EENEE analytical report is based on a detailed literature review of the most recent European and international research on effective approaches to the teaching of literacy, highlighting practices that have been properly evaluated and are supported by evidence of impact. Interest in this subject comes in the light of PISA 2022…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy Education, International Assessment