As an examination of the influences of a renewable energy teaching activity employing teaching aids on elementary students' knowledge of, attitude toward, and behavior of energy saving and carbon reduction, this study designed a teaching experiment in which experimental group was subjected to the teaching with four teaching aids for students to practice whereas the control group was not. Results revealed that the teaching activity significantly improved the attitude and increased some knowledge...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Energy Conservation, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Conservation (Environment),...
Purpose: Howard Gardners' concept of multiple intelligence (MI) offers an alternative perspective on intelligence which highlights the importance of acknowledging learner diversity, individual talents and the development of human potentials. MI has been used as a basis for the construction of modular enrichment activities to facilitate the development of human potential among boarding school students. This study examines (1) the effects of such activities on students of different multiple...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Attitudes, Multiple Intelligences, Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental...
This paper examines the "ecological validity" of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in 42 high schools to measure the impact of a content literacy program. This study of comparable schools implementing the same program in different contexts highlights characteristics that are often not attended to in rigorous effectiveness research but are pertinent to understanding the effectiveness and scalability of the program. In the current study, a direct comparison of school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Implementation, Comparative Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials,...
Many people take for granted the use of language as a tool for coping with everyday occupational and social problems. However, there are those, such as prison inmates, who have difficulty using language in this manner. Realizing that prison inmates are not always able to communicate effectively through standard patterns of speech and thus are hampered in their rehabilitation efforts, this project focused on the modification of their substandard speech habits . Subjects were 21 Draper inmates...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Skills, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Prisoners, Self Concept,...
The final volume in a series of six evaluation reports, this document provides a summary of the results of the evaluation of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC), conducted when the evaluation study's cohort of children had completed grade 1. Begun at 15 sites in 1974 with the purpose of ensuring that disadvantaged children receive continuous individualized attention as they progress from Head Start through the early primary grades, PDC emphasizes the involvement of school personnel and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Development, Control Groups, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Disadvantaged...
Rigorous research provides information that will allow other schools and districts to select interventions that have a scientifically based track record of effectiveness. All Striving Reader grants include the mandate to evaluate literacy intervention(s) targeted to adolescents who are reading significantly below grade level. Although all studies followed the same guidelines for evaluation, each was implemented in a different context, evaluated different interventions or curricula, and utilized...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences (Gatherings), Evaluators, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods,...
During the past decade, the use of standardized benchmark measures to differentiate and individualize instruction for students received renewed attention from educators. Although teachers may use their own assessments (tests, quizzes, homework, problem sets) for monitoring learning, it is challenging for them to equate performance on classroom measures with likely performance on external measures, such as statewide tests or nationally normed standardized tests. One of the most widely used...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Reading Achievement, Learner...
Zili Sloboda, Sc.D., and colleagues at the University of Akron, Ohio, designed and evaluated "Take Charge of Your Life", a substance abuse prevention curriculum for 7th- and 9th-grade students delivered by D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) police officers. They designed "Take Charge of Your Life" to impact students' later (high school) intention to use alcohol, tobacco and marijuana by addressing social skills and social influences ("intervention...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Prevention, Intervention, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Control Groups, Marijuana,...
The College Board developed a program in the content areas of English and mathematics designed to prepare students for challenging content as early as grade 6 and extending through high school. Conceived with the goal of creating high-quality professional development activities with associated instructional strategies embedded in instructional materials rich in content and cognitive demand, the resulting Textual Power and Mathematics with Meaning instructional materials and professional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Teacher Surveys,...
The number of studies that focus on the impact of Second Life (SL) as a virtual language learning tool on speaking achievements of EFL learners is quite limited. Thus, this paper aims to provide insight for SL's effect on Turkish EFL learners' speaking achievement levels. Forty-four EFL learners from Balikesir University participated in this experimental research. The participants were divided into two groups as an experimental group of 20 learners and a control group consisting of 24 students....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, Speech Skills, Language Skills, English...
This study has aimed to inquired whether there was a significant difference between academic achievement and attitudes of 6th grade students who learned "The Resources of Our Country" unit of social studies through case studies and students who learned this unit with teaching based on existing unit. Besides it was aimed to present thoughts and feelings of the students about the case study method aided learning- teaching process. Pretest-posttest control group design was used in this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Case Studies, Units of Study, Achievement...
This is an experimental study on the relative effects of Van Patten's Processing Instruction (PI) (1996, 2002), a "psycholinguistically-motivated" intervention in teaching second-language (L2) grammar, on young-adult Filipino learners of English. A growing body of research on this methodological alternative, which establishes form-meaning connection via processing of linguistic input leading to the L2 learner's developing system, has shown its superiority over the precedent long-held...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Teaching Methods,...
This study aims to translate tenets of social constructivism into practice via a scaffolded modality of learning. It is hypothesized that hermeneutical nature of passage interpretation could create "affordances", Van Lier's (2000) term, or "interactional opportunities" which are psycholinguistically and developmentally valuable crucibles for "negotiated interaction" and subsequently enhancement of reading comprehension. To this end, 24 randomly-selected...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Interaction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Programs, Learning Activities,...
This study investigated the effects of graphic organiser and gender on students' academic achievement in algebraic word problem. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were used in guiding this study. Quasi experimental research was employed and Non-equivalent pre and post test design was used. The study involved the Senior Secondary School 2 (SS2) students in Lagos state. The sample comprised of 40 respondents distributed across three treatment groups [13 in Experimental group...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Achievement, Algebra, Word Problems (Mathematics), Secondary School...
An ideal group size is hard to obtain in small group settings; hence there are groups with more members than others. The purpose of the study was to find out whether group size has any effects on students' mathematics achievement in small group settings. Two third year classes of the 2011/2012 academic year were selected from two schools in the Central Region of Ghana for the study. The two classes constituted the control and experimental groups respectively and consisted of 50 students in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Small Group Instruction, Class Size, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries,...
The purpose of this study was to describe the sustainability of professional development, specifically the teacher utilization of the Science-in-CTE pedagogical model and science-enhanced agricultural education lessons in curricula one year following the Science-in-CTE pilot study. This quasiexperimental study included 41 teachers (15 treatment agricultural education, 14 control agricultural education, and 12 science) who participated in seven days of professional development in the pilot study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Education, Sustainability, Faculty Development, Academic Achievement,...
In this research, after extracting the pre-inquiries (student-level question) for which students had curiosity in the elementary science and analyzing their correlation with the elementary science curriculum, highly correlated inquiries (meaningful pre-inquiries) were selected and applied in class. After organizing an experiment group and a controlled group with one each class of 6th grade in two elementary schools which showed homogeneity in prior research. This study collected pre-inquiries...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Inquiry, Correlation, Experimental...
This paper outlines the results of a collaborative effort between members of staff in the Departments of Life Sciences and Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, which involved the implementation of Writing Across the Curriculum strategies in an Ecology course. The lecturer for this course had expressed concerns regarding the poor quality of the laboratory reports presented and weak essays submitted by students. In order to enhance students' understanding of the content to be included in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Writing Across the Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Ecology, Learner Engagement,...
The pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design with control group was used in this study, in which the impact of alternative assessment activities on students' academic achievement levels and attitudes were explored by employing these activities in the unit "Electricity in Our Lives" of the Science and Technology Course. The research was carried out in three elementary schools in the city of Kocaeli, which exhibited three different levels of success in the SBS (National Level...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Student Attitudes,...
This study examined whether using localized interface designs would make a difference in users' learning results and their perceptions of the interface design in a classroom learning environment. This study also sought to learn more about users' attitudes toward the localized interface features. To assess the impact of using localized interfaces on students' academic achievements, a 2 x 2 two-way factorial ANCOVA was used to evaluate whether there was a significant difference in students'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Computer Software,...
The 2013 study, "Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence From a Six-Campus Randomized Trial," examined the impact of interactive learning online (ILO) on the pass rates of 605 students enrolled in introductory statistics courses at six public universities. ILO is a form of online course instruction in which computer-guided instruction substitutes for some, though not all, traditional face-to-face instruction. Students learn course material independently and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Public Colleges, Interaction, Educational Technology, Computer Uses...
This study attempted to unveil the effect of metadiscourse instruction on the improvement of the speaking ability of Iranian EFL learners. After the administration of a language proficiency test, 34 homogeneous participants were assigned into the experimental and control groups. Then, the two groups were compared on their speaking ability. After the homogeneity of the participants was confirmed, both groups underwent 4 sessions of instruction. The experimental group received metadiscourse...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second...
Since pair programming appeared in the literature as an effective method of teaching computer programming, many systems were developed to cover the application of pair programming over distance. Today's systems serve personal, professional and educational purposes allowing distributed teams to work together on the same programming project. The current research focuses in distributed pair programming systems which are suitable for supporting students in learning computer programming. Systematic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Science Education, Programming, Teamwork, Teaching Methods, Cooperative...
The current study aims to examine the effect of interactive e-books on students' achievement at Najran University in computer in education course. Quasi-experimental study design is used in the study and to collect data the researchers built achievement test to measure the dependent variable represented in the achievement affected by experimental treatment. The study sample is (60) students from the fifth level at Najran University in Saudi Arabia who registered in computers in education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Books, Electronic Publishing, Multimedia Instruction, Academic...
The present study aimed to examine the effect of Mobile Learning, which is a kind of E-learning that uses mobile devices, on the development of the academic achievement and conversational skills of English language specialty students at Najran University. The study used the quasi-experimental approach. Participants consisted of (50) students who were registered in a course called "Strategies of Teaching and Learning" offered by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Academic Achievement,...
The aim of this study is to determine through teacher candidates' thoughts the effects of a portfolio assessment implementation on their metacognitive skills and attitudes towards a course on measurement and evaluation. Exploratory sequential mixed-methods design is employed within the study. The pretest/posttest control group design was used in the qualitative phase of the study and a semi-structured interview form in the quantitative phase. The study was conducted with the participation of 42...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Portfolio Assessment, Metacognition, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes,...
Clinical simulation as a training and knowledge technique allows people to experience a likely scenario with the aim of acquiring knowledge, abilities, and increased aptitude. The filming of the staging represents a useful tool to review the decisions and actions taken, with the purpose of highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. To evaluate performance, nursing students are placed in clinical simulations and filmed while facing life-like situations. Some students have...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nursing Education, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Nursing Students,...
The effects of clicker-use and active learning classroom activities on student performance in financial accounting principles were examined. A repeated measure design was used to compare performance on four exams between a clicker group and a non-clicker group, after controlling for GPA and age. A matched-pairs t-test was used to compare the effects of clickers and structured, peer-instruction (PI). In addition, students' perceptions of clicker-use were evaluated against the literature. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accounting, Audience Response Systems, Active Learning, Classroom Techniques,...
Purpose: Consumption of right diet during the adolescent phase is a critical issue among the adolescent population as their eating behavior is significantly influenced by the peers. Therefore, a study was carried out to educate the school-going adolescent girls living in urban slums of Hyderabad, Telangana, India on right nutrition. Methods: The study was carried out in two randomly selected government schools after obtaining approval from the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). About 200...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dietetics, Adolescents, Females, Urban Areas, Slums, Foreign Countries, Public...
The distribution of the education quality in Indonesia is relatively uneven. This affects the quality of secondary school graduates. On the other hand, the national growth of Information Communication Technology usage in Indonesia is very high, including the use of mobile technology. This is an opportunity for the application of OER (Open Educational Resources) in learning. This study aims to look at the impact of the application of the concept of blended learning OER to motivate students,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Resources, Physics, Open Source Technology, Blended Learning, Student...
This study took place at a medical college with 57 Arabic first-year students taking an intensive English course. The aim was to address the problems that learners experience when using the English tenses properly. The didactic model was developed and implemented in the study group only (27 students). Pre-, mid-, and post-tests were administered to study and control groups at three points in time. The model is a selection of aspects from different methods combined aiming to lead participants to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction,...
The prime purpose of this study was to explore a correlation between bilingual instruction in an ESL class and the class performance of the ESL learners at the secondary level. Quantitative research method was used to evaluate the test performance of 60 ESL learners divided into two groups: One was the controlled group (which was given instructions in L2 only) and the other was the treatment group (which was given instructions in both L1 and L2) in Public School settings. Apart from the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Statistical...
Recent studies highlight early childhood teachers' mathematics-related competence. Developing this competence should be a main aspect of early childhood teachers' education. This is, however, not the case in all countries. Consequently, high-quality professional development courses are needed. Based on research results, we developed a competence-oriented continuous professional development course ("EmMa") and examined the effects of "EmMa" by asking: How does...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical...
The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of the dialectical journal as a tool for teaching critical thinking skills, and to assess middle school teachers' perception of critical thinking. Two groups of middle school students were split into one control and one experimental group. Both groups took a critical thinking test before the experimental group alone was instructed on how to use the dialectical journal. Both groups took another critical thinking test after this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Critical Thinking, Middle...
Vocabulary as a significant component of language learning has been widely researched. As well, it is well documented that vocabulary could be learned through listening and reading. In addition, measuring productive vocabulary has been a chief concern among scholars. However, few studies have focused on meaning-focused listening input and its effect on learners' productive vocabulary size, particularly in EFL contexts. Therefore, the present study aims to figure out whether meaning-focused...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Statistical...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of inquiry-based agriscience instruction on student argumentation skills. Argumentation is defined as the student's ability to establish a claim, provide a rationale for steps taken, provide and justify data, recognize alternate conclusions, and provide evidence why the conclusion is correct or the best solution. Developing argumentation skills can aid in developing the next generation of scientists, and help individuals who are not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evidence, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Statistical Analysis, Scientists,...
Online instruction, like all traditional instructional environments, requires learner self-control and proactive learning to construct knowledge and acquire skills. However, online students often fail to complete some components of their online work each week, damaging their overall academic progress in the course. To assist students in completion of all assigned elements and submission of work on time, three professors at a public southeastern university implemented the use of a generalized...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Control Groups,...
This article describes the effectiveness of open note quizzes in improving student outcomes in an introductory Human Anatomy and Physiology course. Results are discussed within the context of a teaching strategy called LETME (Link, Extract, Transform, Monitor and Extend), which was specifically developed for at risk community college students. The use of open note quizzes not only helped students "monitor" their progress, but also with note taking as they "extracted" and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Tests, Community Colleges, College Science, Two Year College Students, Two Year...
This paper presents the development of reliable measures of fidelity that represent critical elements of the curriculum and its use in assessing teachers' delivering of the treatment curriculum and identifying the existence of program differentiation between the treatment and control conditions. In order to address several issues that arise when assessing levels of implementation while confirming differentiation between treatment and control conditions through the use of well-developed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Intervention, Reliability, Control...
The purpose of this project grant was to develop an innovative system which will recruit, motivate, and retain the undereducated adult in the Western Maryland region of Appalachia. The evaluation of staff changes in attitude toward the device was made with positive results. The evaluation of class interaction between the experimental and the control groups was made. World-of-work skills were explored but not proved any more adequate than regular ABE if instructional time was similar. Typing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Control Groups, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged,...
The importance of this study comes from the fact that foreign language learners suffer from traditional ways and methods of teaching and learning. They are looking for new ways of teaching and learning specially methods which integrated with technology. What makes this study important is that using one of the most familiar software for learners that is Skype. The researchers intentionally chosen this software to bring motivation into classrooms and to bring easiness for learners to use this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Media, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning,...
Guided by the Next Generation Science Standards and elements of problem-based learning, four human-environment systems simulations are described in brief--carbon, energy, water, and watershed--and a fifth simulation on nitrogen is described in more depth. These science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education simulations illustrate design principles that make them engaging to students, such as dynamic visual environments that are controlled by the user and immediate visual feedback...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Energy, Water Quality, Conservation (Environment), Soil Science, Pilot Projects, STEM...
The study investigates the effect of Activity based Blended Learning strategy and Conventional Blended Learning strategy on students' achievement and motivation. Two groups namely, experimental and control group from Sultan Qaboos University were selected randomly for the study. To assess students' achievement in the different groups, pre- and post. achievement tests were used. Three ways 2x2x3 ANCOVA and 2x2x3 ANOVA were used to test for significance. The results of the study (N = 52) show...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Grade...
In Malaysia, traditional teaching is still a common approach among many lecturers. There have been many studies that have reported its limitations and many lecturers have started to adopt a more learner-centred teaching approach to promote better learner understanding and learner motivation. Throughout this effort, it is noticed there are lecturers who could not be assured and felt uncertain about this transition because they went through traditional teaching environment during their studies....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Centered Learning, Student Motivation, Case Studies, Postsecondary Education,...
This paper describes the background, methodology, preliminary findings, and anticipated future directions of a large-scale multi-year randomized field experiment addressing the efficacy of ST Math [Spatial-Temporal Math], a fully-developed math curriculum that uses interactive animated software. ST Math's unique approach minimizes the use of mathematics symbols, terminology, and language to teach standards-based mathematical concepts by utilizing students' innate spatial ability. In 2007, fifty...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Symbols (Mathematics), Second Language Learning, Spatial Ability, Student...
The study investigates the effect of cooperative and individualistic learning strategies on the academic performance of students in the general chemistry laboratory. The samples of the study were divided into experimental and control groups. The hypotheses were first generated and, after collecting data, analyzed by an analysis of t-test at an a = 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that a cooperative learning strategy is more effective than an individualistic strategy; and, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Science Achievement, Science...
The goal of this research project was to investigate the use of dynamic assessment to increase equity, fairness, and accuracy in the testing of abilities and achievement. Dynamic tests have been found to reveal developing expertise in underrepresented minorities around the world that is not revealed by conventional static tests. The gender-balanced fourth grade participants were divided into three main groups: Experimental, Irrelevant Treatment Control and No Treatment Control group. We sampled...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Control Groups, Grade 4, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Ethnic Groups,...
During the last decade, increasing attention has been paid to the role of learner in the process of language learning and testing. Moreover, there is a general consensus in the literature that motivation is one of the key learner characteristics. The objective of this study was to explore the role of journal writing as a self-assessment technique in promoting Iranian EFL learners' motivation. The participants were 60 intermediate students in two groups. The particular self-assessment technique...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Learning...
Teaching efficacy beliefs of agricultural science student teachers, and their relationship with their cooperating teachers during field experiences, are variables that may affect the number of student teachers entering the profession. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects implementing structured communication between student teachers and cooperating teachers on student teachers' self-perceived teaching efficacy, and the relationship between the student teacher and cooperating...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Teachers, Quasiexperimental Design, Field Experience Programs, Cooperating...
Out-of-school factors can significantly impact students' readiness to learn and thrive in school. Research confirms that larger social structures and contexts beyond the school are critical, accounting for up to two-thirds of the variance in student achievement (Coleman et al., 1966; Rothstein, 2010; Phillips, Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, Klebanov, & Crane, 1998; Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000). These out-of-school factors can be particularly pernicious in the context of poverty. For children...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Scores, Program...
