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Naraian, Srikala; Surabian, Mark – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2014
Even as research continues to suggest the potential of assistive technology for improving student outcomes, it remains under-utilized in schools. Among numerous challenges to the effective utilization of assistive technology, research has suggested that educators are inadequately prepared to consider and implement the use of such technologies. In…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs, Educational Legislation
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Özerem, Aysen; Akkoyunlu, Buket – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: While designing a learning environment it is vital to think about learner characteristics (learning styles, approaches, motivation, interests… etc.) in order to promote effective learning. The learning environment and learning process should be designed not to enable students to learn in the same manner and at the same level,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Instructional Design, Cognitive Style, Mathematics Achievement
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Inan, Fethi A.; Crooks, Steven M.; Cheon, Jongpil; Ari, Fatih; Flores, Raymond; Kurucay, Murat; Paniukov, Dmitrii – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of modality on learning from multimedia instruction. This study utilized a factorial between-subject design to examine the effects of modality on student learning outcomes, study patterns and mental effort. An interactive computer-presented diagram was developed to teach the places of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Instruction, Articulation (Speech), Undergraduate Students
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Lavelli, Manuela; Barachetti, Chiara; Florit, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This study examined (a) the relationship between gesture and speech produced by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children, and their mothers, during shared book-reading, and (b) the potential effectiveness of gestures accompanying maternal speech on the conversational responsiveness of children.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
Patrick, Susan; Sturgis, Chris – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2015
Students will face enormous challenges in the coming years--from an economy shaped by ever-advancing technologies to the impact of globalization--and need the strongest foundation of academic, technical, and problem-solving skills we can offer. In an effort to improve their educational experiences, schools across the country are exploring and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Blikstein, Paulo; Worsley, Marcelo – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
New high-frequency multimodal data collection technologies and machine learning analysis techniques could offer new insights into learning, especially when students have the opportunity to generate unique, personalized artifacts, such as computer programs, robots, and solutions engineering challenges. To date most of the work on learning analytics…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Constructivism (Learning)
Kurt, Mehmet; Bilginer, Hayriye – Online Submission, 2016
In the globalizing world economy, for the realization of international trade is increasing the need for foreign language learning. TR63 (Kahramanmaras, Osmaniye and Hatay) region is increasing its export every day. Besides these advances, interest is awakening in foreign language education among the region. In preparing syllabus for this kind of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions
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Hupp, Julie M.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
One critical aspect of learning is the ability to apply learned knowledge to new situations. This ability to transfer is often limited, and its development is not well understood. The current research investigated the development of transfer between 8 and 16 months of age. In Experiment 1, 8- and 16-month-olds (who were established to have a…
Descriptors: Generalization, Learning Strategies, Transfer of Training, Experiments
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Rouse, Megan Elizabeth – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
In United States schools, the rate of immigrant English language learners is rapidly rising, affecting the lives of both students and teachers. This article will discuss the best ways to facilitate the students' language learning in a school setting; the type of structure, goals, and standards that can be expected; as well as ways to change the…
Descriptors: High School Students, English Language Learners, Immigrants, Educational Environment
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Oliver, Kevin M.; Stallings, Dallas T. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2014
Blended learning environments that merge learning strategies, resources, and modes have been implemented in higher education settings for nearly two decades, and research has identified many positive effects. More recently, K-12 traditional and charter schools have begun to experiment with blended learning, but to date, research on the effects of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Educational Methods, Literature Reviews
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Chabani, Ellahe; Hommel, Bernhard – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
Recent decades have witnessed a growing interest in intervention-based assessment to promote and enhance children's learning. In this study, we explored the potential effect of an experimental visual-spatial intervention procedure and possible training benefits of two prompting modalities: one group received training with verbal and visual…
Descriptors: Prompting, Visual Aids, Verbal Communication, Skill Development
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Pellegrino, Anthony; Zenkov, Kristien; Sell, Corey; Calamito, Nicholas – School-University Partnerships, 2014
The study of a middle school social studies project this article addresses occurred in the national capital region of the United States, where perceptions of ''patriotism'' and xenophobic immigration policies were the subjects of frequent media reports. With this examination the authors considered the overarching research question ''How do middle…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, College School Cooperation, Professional Development Schools, Citizenship Education
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Australia, 2014
During a classroom-based study that explored the teaching and learning of visual elements of art and design, Grade 7 students had the opportunity to read four graphic novels. Theoretically, the research was informed by social semiotics, visual literacy, sociocultural theory, and Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading. The instructional unit…
Descriptors: Novels, Picture Books, Cartoons, Grade 7
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DeCosta, James – International Journal on E-Learning, 2013
The participants were college students who attended an accredited private college offering associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees in the western United States. The research variables included student choice of modality (either OL or FTF), the covariate was students' GPA. Data were collected from institutional records and analyzed through…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Predictor Variables, Learning Modalities
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Suzanne M. Miller; Merridy A. Knips; Stephen Goss – English Journal, 2013
A series of studies in a mature multimodal composing project demonstrates that through digital video (DV) composing about literature, diverse students, including many who struggled in school, learned new ways of engaging literature, performing meaning, and thinking symbolically through multimodal translations of the text. Students' focus in these…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Language Arts, Literature, Multimedia Materials
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