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Mendes, Skyler H.; Fede, Jacquelyn H.; Wilks, Megan B. – Learning Assistance Review, 2017
The aim of this analysis was to determine from a pilot project whether a new style of course-connected learning support for students in gateway STEM courses could be more successful on the University of Rhode Island's campus than the traditional Supplemental Instruction (SI) model. The new model, Weekly Tutoring Groups (WTG), addressed several of…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, STEM Education, College Students, Teaching Methods
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Sánchez Solarte, Ana Clara; Obando Guerrero, Gabriel Vicente; Ibarra Santacruz, Diana – HOW, 2017
This article reports the results of a study whose goal was to determine the views of undergraduate students regarding the English as a foreign language courses they must take as a requirement for graduation at a public university in Colombia. One hundred and thirty students from 10 undergraduate programs were surveyed and their responses were…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Caplinger, Robert T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the use of a middle school flexible interdisciplinary block schedule would increase eighth-grade students' reading scores, as measured by the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (OAKS). A 90-minute middle school flexible interdisciplinary block schedule served as the independent variable and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Block Scheduling, Flexible Scheduling
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Chevalier, Amélie; Copot, Cosmin; Ionescu, Clara; De Keyser, Robin – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
This paper discusses the results of a feedback study for a remote laboratory used in the education of control engineering students. The goal is to show the effectiveness of the remote laboratory on examination results. To provide an overview, the two applications of the remote laboratory are addressed: 1) the Stewart platform, and 2) the quadruple…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Engineering Education, Virtual Classrooms, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lequia, Jenna; Wilkerson, Kimber L.; Kim, Sunyoung; Lyons, Gregory L. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2015
Students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often exhibit rigidity, which can lead to difficulties with transitions. Such difficulties can explain why students with ASD are placed in more restrictive educational environments. This review offers a quantitative synthesis of effects of interventions aimed to improve transitions of students with ASD…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Literature Reviews
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Mishra, Sita; Nargundkar, Rajendra – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: Management education is at its peak in India. But pedagogy and modes of delivery are not always innovative compared to top international Business Schools. It is through experimentation that the paper may be able to discover what works best in our context. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effectiveness of intensive mode of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Management Development, Business Administration Education, Questionnaires
Dame, Nadine Filosi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines the differences between spacing of instruction and the classroom involvement of a cross-ability peer tutor on mathematical achievement in a developmental mathematics course. Grounded in spacing effect theory, this study examines how variations in the frequency of instruction affect student learning. The study consists of two…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
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Ratcliff, Nancy J.; Pritchard, Nicholas A.; Knight, Caroline W.; Costner, Richard H.; Jones, Cathy R.; Hunt, Gilbert H. – Journal of Research in Education, 2014
Research was conducted to determine what impact school organization and classroom dynamics had on student achievement. Results from standardized benchmark tests found no significant differences in scores across all schools and content areas; yet, end of course standardized measures indicated that students in sites employing block scheduling…
Descriptors: School Organization, Classroom Environment, Academic Achievement, Scores
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Wong, Ping-Man; Cheung, Alan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This article is one of a series of papers generated from the Curriculum Reform study in Hong Kong with the purpose of understanding the impact of government's role in the change process of the reform. This paper specifically examines the 17 government initiatives in the Curriculum Reform in terms of their adoption percentages of schools from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Government Role, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Longbotham, Pamela J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study examined the impact of participation in an optional flexible year program (OFYP) on academic achievement. The ex post facto study employed an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. The non-probability sample consisted of 163 fifth grade students in an OFYP district and 137 5th graders in a 180-day instructional year school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Mixed Methods Research, Grade 5
Norton, Mary Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The number of public high schools implementing a semester 4 x 4 block scheduling design within the state of South Carolina has tripled since 2005. However, minimal local research has been conducted regarding the impact of block scheduling on student academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if significant differences exist…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, High Schools, Block Scheduling, Exit Examinations
Allan, Audrey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Social studies at the middle-level represented a marginalized discipline in South Carolina. Although it was integrated into the state's accountability testing agenda and weighted equally with English, math, and science content in state school and district report card rating calculations, differences exist in the amount of time allocated for social…
Descriptors: Scheduling, State Standards, Time Management, Program Effectiveness
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Bruce, Richard D.; McCandless, David W.; Berryman, Chuck W.; Strong, Shawn D. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2008
One of the toughest hurdles to overcome in construction education is the varying levels of construction field experience among undergraduate students. Although an internship is a common construction management requirement, it is often completed after students complete classes in planning and scheduling. This poses a challenge for the modern…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scheduling, Photography, Construction Management
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Rice, Jennifer King; Croninger, Robert G.; Roellke, Christopher F. – Economics of Education Review, 2002
Draws on data from 1988 National Education Longitudinal Study to estimate the impact of block-scheduled mathematics course on 10th-grade student achievement and teachers' use of class time. Findings suggest that while block scheduling is positively associated with teachers' use of multiple instructional methods and more individualized instruction,…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Grade 10, High School Students, Individualized Instruction
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Wilson, Elizabeth; Looney, Sarah; Stair, Kristin – Journal of Career and Technical Education, 2005
In recent years, many states have implemented block scheduling in secondary schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of agricultural educators in career and technical education at the beginning of the implementation of block scheduling and changes in their attitudes nine years later. Over the past nine years, teachers'…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, School Schedules, Secondary Schools, Agricultural Education