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I Made It! Effects of Perceptions of Success and Enhanced Expectancies on Motor Learning and Its Underlying Mechanisms
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Juliana Otoni Parma – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation describes a program of research encompassing three studies that focused on examining the effects of enhanced expectancies and perceptions of success on motor learning. OPTIMAL theory (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016) proposes that practice manipulations that enhance a learner's expectations for future successful outcomes lead to…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Memory, Goal Orientation, Learning Motivation
Examining the Quality of Preservice Science Teachers' Written Reflections When Using Video Recordings, Audio Recordings, and Memories of a Teaching Event
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Calandra, Brendan; Brantley-Dias, Laurie; Yerby, Johnathan; Demir, Kadir – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2018
A group of preservice science teachers edited video footage of their practice teaching to identify and isolate critical incidents. They then wrote guided reflection papers on those critical incidents using different forms of media prompts while they wrote. The authors used a counterbalanced research design to compare the quality of writing that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Nonprint Media, Video Technology
Mobile Games Individualise and Motivate Rehabilitation in Different User Groups
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Koivisto, Antti; Merilampi, Sari; Sirkka, Andrew – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2015
Trials on Mobile Games are presenting a huge potential in cognitive, physical and mental rehabilitation. This paper is to discuss user viewpoints of trials with mobile games combining cognitive stimulation and physical exercise in rehabilitation: Game#1 controlled by tilting the mobile phone embedded in a balance board; Game#2 controlled by…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Video Games, Teaching Methods
How to Integrate Tai Ji Quan into Physical Education Programs
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Lu, Chunlei – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2008
Tai ji quan, also known as "tai chi," is an ancient Chinese exercise characterized by soft, slow, and meditative movements. It consists of a set of continuous, evenly paced, carefully choreographed, but natural, body shifts. "Tai ji" is an ancient Chinese philosophy, while "tai ji quan" refers to a type of physical activity based on tai ji…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Discipline, Physical Activities, Physical Education Teachers
The Dicto-Comp Revisited.
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Kleinmann, Howard H.; Selekman, Howard R. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
The dicto-comp, an exercise consisting of a passage to be read several times by the student and then reproduced, usually taps a student's ability to write dictation and composition. Here the emphasis is on composition rather than auditory memory expansion, with the idea that each dicto-comp has a specific teaching point to convey. (PJM)
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Language Skills, Memory, Reading Skills
Guidelines, a Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1988-1992.
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Guidelines, 1992
This document consists of five years (1988-1992, 10 issues) of the Singapore-based journal "Guidelines." Issues contain articles on a variety of topics in second language teaching. Topics include classroom language teaching strategies, techniques for teaching specific language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) or knowledge…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Business Communication, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques