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Samosa, Resty C.; Guyo, Johnzel M.; Dapadap, Marlon Q.; De Guzman, Russel – Online Submission, 2021
This study focused on the development of the learners on how Video-Based Experiential Approach will help learners to keep the pace of learnings in this pandemic. This study provided various evidence on how innovation can be a great step in developing the learners in learning about fraction. The purpose of this action research is to determine the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Experiential Learning, Fractions
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Aukerman, Maren; Brown, Rachel; Mokhtari, Kouider; Valencia, Sheila; Palincsar, Annemarie – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2015
The essays below were prepared following the LRA session organized by Janice Almasi entitled, "Examining the relative contributions of content knowledge and strategic processing to comprehension." What unites these essays are the personal and historical stances that each writer has taken; in addition, the essays are rich with…
Descriptors: Essays, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Theories
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Habibian, Maryam; Roslan, Samsilah; Idris, Khairuddin; Othman, Jamilah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
In recent years, psychological factors have become vital factors in literacy education. Existing research has indicated that these factors haves received special attention in the comprehension process. Moreover, in reading process and teaching curriculum understanding, the role of these factors could be beneficial for the students. This paper…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Reading Processes, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension
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Kent, Shawn; Wanzek, Jeanne; Swanson, Elizabeth A.; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2015
We examined the effectiveness of implementing team-based learning (TBL) practices on content acquisition for 11th grade students with high-incidence disabilities enrolled in general education social studies courses. TBL components focus on collaborative discourse within heterogeneous teams. TBL, which requires critical thinking and the application…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disabilities, Social Studies, Cooperative Learning
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Hollenbeck, Amy Feiker – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015
Reflection on subjectivity in the qualitative research process is fundamental to the methodology. Although much attention is paid to what to do (identify subjectivities), there is much less emphasis on how one should do this. Furthermore, a researcher engaged in an intimately familiar setting, such as a typical American classroom, faces the unique…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Observation, Novices
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Jin, Haiyue; Wong, Khoon Yoong – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Conceptual understanding is a major aim of mathematics education, and concept map has been used in non-mathematics research to uncover the relations among concepts held by students. This article presents the results of using concept map to assess conceptual understanding of basic algebraic concepts held by a group of 48 grade 8 Chinese students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts
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Duman, Tuba Yarbay; Blom, Elma; Topbas, Seyhun – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This study investigated the comprehension of counterfactual conditionals in monolingual Turkish children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. Comprehending counterfactuals requires a well-developed cognitive system (Beck, Riggs, & Gorniak, 2009). Children with SLI have impaired cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Children, Comprehension
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Lawford, Heather L.; Ramey, Heather L. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined generativity (concern for future generations as a legacy of the self) and activity engagement as predictors of meaning making in young people's personal accounts of their key activity experiences. We elicited stories regarding events within participants' "most engaging activity," self-reports on generativity, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Personal Narratives, Predictor Variables
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Cooper, Melanie M.; Williams, Leah C.; Underwood, Sonia M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The ability to use representations of molecular structure to predict the macroscopic properties of a substance is central to the development of a robust understanding of chemistry. Intermolecular forces (IMFs) play an important role in this process because they provide a mechanism for how and why molecules interact. In this study, we investigate…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Chemistry, College Students, Comprehension
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Ceran, Dilek – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of reading comprehension of high school students in their fields of study and learning strategies to explain the relationship between the level of reading comprehension. This working group is composed of 11th grade high school students. In this study, relational model was used. In the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies
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Sullivan, Susan; Oakhill, Jane – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
In this article, we review the skills that have been found to be related to good story comprehension in novice readers with normal hearing and describe the relative weight each plays. The relationship between effective story comprehension and lower level skills (such as syntactic awareness and vocabulary knowledge) is considered, and the casual…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Reading Skills, Syntax
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Weber, Keith – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2015
In this paper, I identify five effective proof reading strategies that mathematics majors can use to comprehend proofs. This paper reports two studies. The first study is a qualitative study in which four successful mathematics majors were videotaped reading six proofs. These students used five proof reading strategies to foster comprehension: (i)…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Reading Strategies, Majors (Students), Qualitative Research
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Males, Lorraine M.; Earnest, Darrell; Dietiker, Leslie; Amador, Julie M. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
This paper explores the construct of curricular noticing, defined as the act of teachers making sense of the complexity of content and pedagogical opportunities in written or digital curricular materials (Dietiker, Amador, Earnest, Males, & Stohlmann, 2014), and reports the results of four exploratory studies aimed to examine the Curricular…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Instructional Materials
Wood, Mara – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Graphic novels use visual literacy and multimodal learning two methods of teaching. Graphic novels also have a history of being motivating to students. This study aims to quantify the degree of influence graphic novels have on secondary student comprehension and motivation. Students were recruited from two classrooms taught by one twelfth-grade…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
Morphological awareness (MA), defined as the ability to understand the morphemic structure of the words, has been reported to affect various aspects of second language performance including reading comprehension ability, spelling performance, etc. But the concept has been far less treated with reference to l2 listening. Against this background,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Experimental Groups
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