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Lee, Jung Min – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This research examined demographic factors and reported preferential learning mode among a sample of Florida Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) members compared to a national sample profile of OLLI members. This study was prompted by an earlier study of OLLI members conducted by the National Resource Center (NRC) for OLLIs, which produced a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Preferences, Cognitive Style
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Edwards, Nazeem – Perspectives in Education, 2015
Initial teacher education programmes such as the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in South Africa are undergoing significant changes with the introduction of a new policy regime. This paper briefly outlines the policy changes advanced for teacher education programmes in South Africa. It examines productive pedagogies as a conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Ünal, Menderes – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study investigated learning modalities of undergraduate students in terms of their gender, departments, grades and academic achievements. The modalities/styles (visual, auditory and kinaesthetic) indicate learning preferences and help students find ways to study effectively, reach new information and solve problems. The study was conducted…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Modalities, Gender Differences, Departments
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Vasudevan, Lalitha – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2015
In this article, I explore laughter as a form of multimodal play in which adolescents' engage across contexts and in various configurations. With a few recent exceptions, a focus on unscripted play is largely missing from ongoing research and discussion about the education of adolescents. Whereas the space to play has been vitally important to the…
Descriptors: Humor, Adolescents, Play, Educational Technology
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Archer, Arlene – Classroom Discourse, 2014
This paper explores the ways in which multimodal classroom discourse could inform a social justice agenda through broadening the base for representation in the classroom. It identifies some of the challenges and opportunities of designing multimodal classrooms in diverse and developing contexts, where there are vast differentials in terms of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
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Franks, Anton – Research in Drama Education, 2014
The way in which school students represent affective aspects of human relationships in drama and what this reveals about learning in drama is the focus of this paper. Such an enquiry traverses the borders between affect, intellect, and physicality. Affect and its representation in drama have been themes in the history of drama and theatre and is a…
Descriptors: Drama, Affective Behavior, Learning Processes, Literary Devices
Sema A. Kalaian; Rafa Kasim – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study outlines the use of multilevel modeling for meta-analysis to analyze the meta-analytic data for a 3-year project. The focus of the project, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, was on comparing the performance (achievement) of undergraduate students who were taught using one of the various types of active…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Science, College Mathematics, Small Group Instruction
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Trebits, Anna – Applied Linguistics, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cognitive task complexity and individual differences in input, processing, and output anxiety (IPOA) on L2 narrative production. The participants were enrolled in a bilingual secondary educational program. They performed two narrative tasks in speech and writing. The participants' level of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Input Output Analysis, Anxiety
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Golikova, Guz?l A.; Zamaletdinov, Radif R.; Vafina, Alsu H.; Mukhametshina, Rezeda F. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The problem of individualization and differentiation of the learning process is still relevant in the education. The Republic of Tatarstan is a special community where many nationalities live together. In this article the problem of the text interpretation at literature lessons is on the focus of view. Leaning on the provisions, provided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature, Teaching Methods, Interpretive Skills
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Schmidt, Kimberly McDavid; Beucher, Becky – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2018
We contend that multimodal literary responses offer a space for students to integrate art in the interactive composing process in a way that fosters creativity that normative schooling practices often foreclose. In this qualitative study of three African American fifth-grade students' design processes, we theorize literacy as embodied to analyse…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Art Education, Integrated Curriculum, Creativity
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Cook, Mike P.; Sams, Brandon L. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2018
The authors present research findings from a collective case study (n=5) conducted in a multimodal composition course for pre-service English teachers. Researchers studied how a course focused on how multimodal composition influenced pre-service teachers' identities as writers and their stances on literacy instruction. Data consisted of students'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, English Teachers, English Instruction
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Pellerin, Martine – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
This article examines the complexity of the affordances that mobile technologies offer in the K-12 educational context. It builds on an ecological perspective (Mercer, 2012; van Lier, 2008) informed by theories of dynamic systems and complexity (Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2008) to explore the concept of affordance as a complex and dynamic…
Descriptors: Affordances, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement
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Rich, Sara E. House; Duhon, Gary J.; Reynolds, James – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2017
Computers have become an important piece of technology in classrooms for implementing academic interventions. Often, students' responses to these interventions are used to help make important educational decisions. Therefore, it is important to consider the effect of these interventions across multiple contexts. For example, previous research has…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Bradea, Adela – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
Contemporary culture is mainly a culture of image. We get our information seeing. Examination of images is free, while reading is impelled by the necessity of browsing the whole text. The image seems more appropriate than the text when trying to communicate easy and quickly. The speech calls for articulated language, expressed through a symbolic…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Modalities, Visual Learning, Questionnaires
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Bowen, Tracey; Evans, M. Max – Education for Information, 2015
The most common tools individuals use to articulate complex and abstract concepts are writing and spoken language, long privileged as primary forms of communication. However, our, explanations of these concepts may be more aptly communicated through visual means, such as drawings. Interpreting and analyzing abstract graphic representations is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Representation, Learning Processes, Freehand Drawing
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