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Shechter, Taly; Eden, Sigal; Spektor-Levy, Ornit – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2021
The objective of this study was to examine in what ways and to what extent preschoolers (5-6 years of age) manifest early Engineering Habits of Mind (EHoM) while engaging in an open-ended problem-solving construction task. The study comprised 228 children (120 boys and 108 girls). The study implemented a quantitative approach. The main research…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Engineering, Problem Solving
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Virtue, David C. – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2021
Collaboration and teamwork are essential aspects of the work of a professional middle level teacher and an integral part of AMLE Standard 5. Preservice teachers typically experience collaborative practices firsthand during field experiences, but the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many schools to shift instruction online thereby limiting the…
Descriptors: Simulation, Virtual Classrooms, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Tokunaga, Miki – Journal of English Teaching, 2021
Japanese learners of English are often described as having good English grammar but lacking in fluency. However, with the changes to a more communication-focused English curriculum in the last few decades, this is no longer the norm. This paper will first review the reactions to communication-focused English instructions in Japan and other parts…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Accuracy
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Yanagisawa, Akifumi; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2021
The involvement load hypothesis (ILH) was designed to predict the effectiveness of instructional tasks for incidental L2 vocabulary learning. In this meta-analysis we examined 398 effect sizes from 42 empirical studies (N = 4,628) to explore (a) the overall predictive ability of the ILH, (b) the relative effects of different components of the ILH…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Junmin – Education Sciences, 2021
Universities face the challenge of constantly improving the quality of higher education and changing the learning behaviour of students, from passive reactive learning to active self-regulated learning. Learner-centred, constructively designed learning tasks offer a great opportunity here. This paper investigates to what extent the learning…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Self Management, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
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Becherer, Julia; Köller, Olaf; Zimmermann, Friederike – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Although many studies have suggested that students' externalizing (aggressive and rule-breaking) behaviour is detrimental to their academic achievement, the underlying mechanisms have rarely been investigated. Aims: We conducted a longitudinal investigation of whether the negative relation between externalizing behaviour and academic…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Correlation, Academic Achievement
Zajic, Matthew Carl; Solari, Emily Jane; McIntyre, Nancy Susan; Lerro, Lindsay; Mundy, Peter Clive – Grantee Submission, 2021
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate heterogeneous writing skills that are generally lower than their typically developing (TD) peers and similar to peers with attention difficulties like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Recent evidence suggests children with ASD spend less time engaging in writing tasks…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Writing Skills, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Neiterman, Elena; Zaza, Christine – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
The widespread use of technological devices in an academic classroom brought with it many learning opportunities, but also posed a challenge of handling the off-task technology use in class. The literature on this topic is growing, but we still know relatively little about students' and instructors' perceptions regarding the off-task technology…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education, College Faculty
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Billmayer, Jakob – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2019
In this study, aspects of space and time in German and Swedish classrooms are observed and compared to characterize differences and similarities in classrooms and lessons in different contexts. The organization and control of individuals and their actions in relation to time and space are analysed using categories derived from "Discipline and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Time, Time on Task
Linkowski, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Non-traditional learners (NTL's) are students who have delayed college enrollment, have dependents, are single parents, are financially independent, have non-standard high school credentials, attend part-time or work full-time. They are a growing segment of college students. Their success is critical to the future of the American workforce, but…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Nontraditional Students, Time on Task, Developmental Studies Programs
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Juškaite, Loreta – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
The new research results on the online- testing method in the Latvian education system for a learning process assessment are presented. Data mining is a very important field in education because it helps to analyse the data gathered in various researches and to implement the changes in the education system according to the learning methods of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Data Use
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Nepal, Kedar; Paneru, Khyam; Basyal, Deepak – College Student Journal, 2020
This paper presents the results of a study on Calculus students' use of web-based homework. We collected data from students' web-based homework usage, such as their grades, time spent, number of attempts used to solve problems, and problem solutions. We also collected grades on in-class quizzes, which were given the day after homework had been…
Descriptors: Calculus, Undergraduate Students, Web Based Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Mrazek, Alissa J.; Mrazek, Michael D.; Carr, Peter C.; Delegard, Alex M.; Ding, Margaret G.; Garcia, Daniel I.; Greenstein, Jenna E.; Kirk, Arianna C.; Kodama, Erika E.; Krauss, Miel J.; Landry, Alex P.; Stokes, Crystal A.; Wickens, Kyla D.; Wong, Kyle; Schooler, Jonathan W. – Education Sciences, 2020
During academic activities, adolescents must manage both the internal distraction of mind-wandering and the external distraction of digital media. Attention training has emerged as a promising strategy for minimizing these distractions, but scalable interventions that can deliver effective attention training in high schools are still needed. The…
Descriptors: Attention Control, High School Students, Adolescents, Public Schools
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Vogler, Kenneth E.; Schramm, Susan; Allan, Audrey; Parler, Jake D. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
This study investigated the relationship among the variables instructional time configuration, gender, race/ethnicity, and poverty to predict the academic performance of seventh-grade students on a state-mandated social studies accountability test. Results of 24,919 seventh-grade student social studies test scores from 117 middle schools, as well…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Race, Ethnicity
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Garger, John; Vracheva, Veselina P.; Jacques, Paul – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: Although extant literature links overstimulation to various job outcomes, most studies do not consider a service-learning context, and they suggest a linear association between stimuli and outcomes. This paper examines the link between the number of service-learning hours students work and three educational outcomes -- student…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Satisfaction, Relevance (Education), Community Involvement
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