Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 19 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 88 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 1196 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 6461 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 438 |
| Researchers | 383 |
| Policymakers | 263 |
| Teachers | 254 |
| Administrators | 135 |
| Community | 112 |
| Media Staff | 31 |
| Parents | 30 |
| Counselors | 19 |
| Students | 19 |
| Support Staff | 8 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| Australia | 496 |
| United States | 359 |
| United Kingdom | 284 |
| Canada | 271 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 215 |
| Turkey | 176 |
| China | 154 |
| California | 138 |
| New Zealand | 127 |
| South Africa | 120 |
| Texas | 111 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 4 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 6 |
| Does not meet standards | 6 |
Nelson, Miles A.; Ankney, Paul H. – 1977
It is hypothesized that certain mental structures are related to certain teaching skills. These structures are identified as combinatorial logic, essential to planning lessons, and hypothetical reasoning, an important aid in analyzing lessons. These formal thinking abilities should result in greater improvement during practice and later teaching.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development
Tharp, Roland G.; And Others – 1974
Reading research is an important aspect of the Kamehameha Early Education Program. This report describes the overall strategy of the reading research program, which is based on a conceptual framework that divides lines of inquiry into motivation, linguistics, instructional procedures, and correlational analysis. Preliminary results for each of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Biculturalism, Elementary Education, Performance Factors
Peterson, Penelope L.; And Others – 1979
This document contains two studies. The first investigates naturally-occurring aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) with three teaching approaches--lecture-recitation, inquiry, and public issues discussion. The second study attempts to replicate these ATI in a short-term project. Teachers taught social studies to ninth-grade students according to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Lecture Method, Performance Factors
WOODWARD, JOHN C. – 1964
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS OF TELEVISION TEACHING IS IN THE AREA OF STUDENT INSTRUCTOR INTERACTION. THE INSTRUCTOR HAS NO WAY OF KNOWING WHETHER OR NOT ANY LEARNING IS TAKING PLACE OR IF THE STUDENTS ARE LISTENING. A FEEDBACK SYSTEM HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO ENABLE A STUDENT TO INDICATE HIS RESPONSE TO A TV LECTURER'S QUESTION BY PUSHING ONE OF FIVE BUTTONS…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Television, Feedback, Patterned Responses
Download full textFOULKE, EMERSON; WARM, JOEL – 1967
GROUPS OF 24 BLIND ADULTS (ALL SKILLED BRAILLE READERS) AND 24 SIGHTED COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE COMPARED ON A TACTUAL IDENTIFICATION OF FORM TASK IN WHICH RAISED DOTS WERE USED. THE TWO INFORMATION PARAMETERS, COMPLEXITY AND REDUNDANCY OF THE DOTS, WERE ASSESSED USING PUNCTIFORM METRIC FIGURES RESEMBLING HISTOGRAMS AND SIMILAR IN SIZE AND SPACING TO…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Exceptional Child Research, Performance Factors
Oakland Unified School District, CA. – 1965
CHILDREN FROM SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY IMPOVERISHED CIRCUMSTANCES TEND TO ENTER SCHOOL WITH PERCEPTIBLY DIFFERENT PREPARATION FOR THE RIGORS AND DEMANDS OF THE LEARNING AND SOCIALIZING EXPECTATIONS OF THE SCHOOL. INITIAL FAILURES ARE ALMOST INEVITABLE. ONE OF THE GOALS OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A POSITIVE READINESS TOWARD LEARNING AND TO…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Environmental Influences, Field Trips
PRICE, PHILIP B.; AND OTHERS – 1963
CRITERION MEASURES DEVELOPED FOR ON-THE-JOB PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICIANS WILL BE USED IN A SUBSEQUENT STUDY TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH THE PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICIANS CAN BE PREDICTED BY THEIR INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN MEDICAL AND PREMEDICAL SCHOOL. APPROXIMATELY 29 MEASURES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND OTHER PHYSICIANS IN THE UTAH…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Faculty, Interviews
von Raffler-Engel, Walburga; McKnight, Steven G. – 1980
In a semiotic study exploring whether the visibility of both ends in a dyadic interaction affected a third party's evaluation of the interactants, subjects evaluated two versions of six simulated employment interviews. The six male applicants for employment simulated overgesticulation, lack of adequate eye contact, moderate aggressiveness, kinesic…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Differences, Employment Interviews
Ostman, Ronald E.; Jeffers, Dennis W. – 1980
A model specifying relationships between life stage, motives for using television and the perceived reality of television was tested with data from 140 telephone interviews of adults living in Southern Illinois. The adults ranged in age from 18 to 87 years. Life stage was related to five of the 11 motives for using television: learning things,…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns
Dossett, Dennis L.; Greenberg, Carl I. – 1980
To examine the effects of goal-setting on supervisors' evaluations of workers' performance, and on the causes attributed to that performance, 80 subjects were shown a simulated interaction between a worker and supervisor in one of three goal-setting conditions: self-set, participative, or assigned. The worker either succeeded or failed to meet the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Feedback, Job Performance
Rowe, Helga A. H. – 1980
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised (WISC-R) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) were administered in counter-balanced order to 81 children aged 7-12 in New South Wales, Australia. Canonical correlation analysis showed the total redundancy values of WISC-R given WISC and WISC given WISC-R to be .58 and .61…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary Education, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Myers, Collin A.; Safford, Philip L. – 1980
The descriptive study explored the cognitive and linguistic performances of 63 multiply handicapped preschool children (ages 37 to 71 months). Five measures, such as the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, were used to assess the Ss, who were classified in one of three groups (cerebral palsied, other neurologically impaired, nonneurologically…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Cognitive Ability, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
PDF pending restorationSnow, Richard E. – 1976
This report is a review of current literature on the relation of aptitudes to learning outcomes under different instructional methods or conditions. Included are: (1) aptitude-instructional treatment interaction studies; (2) notes on new methodological problems; (3) and studies of individual differences in laboratory learning arrangements.…
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude, Concept Formation, Individual Differences
PDF pending restorationNunn, Gary D. – 1976
There is a positive relationship between a selected measure of test anxiety and several measures of self-perception. Hypotheses of concommitant decreases in self-esteem as test anxiety increased were offered. Subjects consisted of 193 undergraduate students (123 females and 70 males) enrolled in educational psychology and foundations of education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Performance Factors, Research Projects
Sharp, George Lawrence – 1977
In 1976, Muller and Spuhler found support for the proposition that self-concept influenced achievement. This experiment was designed to challenge their findings by demonstrating that when self-concept is lowered in a therapeutic manner, no deficit in achievement will result. The experimenter adjusted the self-concepts of college students regarding…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, College Students
