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Direct linkFleming, Debra L. – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
The primary purpose of this exploratory study is to provide insight on how to use online discussions to foster collaborative learning and how to design assessment processes to evaluate the effectiveness of those discussions. This study focuses on the pedagogical role of discussion, effective practices in discussion, guidelines for creating…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Discovery Processes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Mediated Communication
Hagen, Owen A.; Stansberry, Steve T. – Soc Educ, 1969
From the Series "Social Studies Education: The Elementary School -- Focus on Inquiry.
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Inquiry, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewedGarrett, Larry N.; Heyl, R. James – Social Studies, 1976
A model for teaching social studies by the discovery approach is presented. The authors maintain that the temporal inquiry teaching model holds considerable promise for encouraging student enthusiasm, emphasizing higher cognitive levels, and stimulating divergent student thinking and activity. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry, Learning Activities
Download full textNorthup, Terry – 1974
The writings of 33 authors in either curriculum theory or social studies are analyzed to determine whether each author supports structure-discovery views, reflective-inquiry views, or expresses views that tend to reflect both positions or neither position regarding the new approaches to teaching social studies. The structure-discovery method is…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Chuska, Kenneth R. – 1995
This publication is a practical guide for teachers to improve their questioning techniques and thus increase their students' motivation, participation, and higher-level thinking. Teachers are urged to re-examine their views on educational practices and develop a teaching plan which accentuates opportunities for student involvement, and allows…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Tinsley, Drew C.; And Others – 1970
This study investigates the cognitive nature of teacher-pupil questions in "process oriented" and "content oriented" secondary social studies programs. Subjects were five classes selected from a program viewed by both teachers and pupils as process-oriented; five from a program viewed by both teachers and pupils as content…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1983
A study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of a training program to help teachers instruct students in finding the relationship between questions designed to test their comprehension of a text and the location of possible information for answering those questions. Specifically, the study examined whether training would enhance student…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Discovery Processes, Grade 4, Information Sources
Fellows, Nancy J. – 1993
This study examined the effect of an experimental educational psychology course on preservice teachers' ideas about teaching. The experimental course immersed students in writing as a response to reading, writing to reflect on previous beliefs, and a teaching model to help students question their experiences and beliefs founded in previous school…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Restructuring, Course Content, Discovery Processes
Gross, Richard E., Ed.; Muessig, Raymond H., Ed. – 1971
The plea of this bulletin, the second and full revision of The Problems Approach and the Social Studies copyrighted in 1955 and 1960, is for teachers to do more with the reflective method in their classrooms. It draws upon the latest and most pertinent insights distilled from research, theory, and practice associated with reflective thinking;…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching
