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The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of overall, selective, and no error correction on the quality and quantity of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' writing. A total of 107 secondary school students in 3 classes participated in this study. These classes were randomly assigned to the three treatment conditions: overall error correction, where the teacher corrected all grammatical, mechanical, and organizational errors on each composition; selective error correction...
Topics: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction,...
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the holistic approach, as compared to the segregated-skill approach, on the quantity and quality of EFL students' academic writing. The subjects for the study were 64 graduates enrolled in the Special Diploma in Education at the School of Education in Suez during the second semester of the 2001/2002 academic year. These subjects were randomly divided into two equal groups: an experimental group and a control group. At the beginning...
Topics: Holistic Approach, Writing skills, Educational Theories, Pretests Posttests, Teaching Methods
This study reports on how an American Education System course, traditionally taught with broad objectives, was contextualized for science teachers. Using pre-assessment data, specific policy issues were targeted with the objective of increasing teachers' feelings of influence over issues. The approach used was adapted from exposure therapy, a method common in behavioral therapy. This involved providing greater depth of understanding of issues, revisiting issues repeatedly, and developing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Locus of Control, Behavior Modification, Teacher Education Programs, Science...
The experimental design was conducted to investigate the use of Microsoft Mathematics, free software made by Microsoft Corporation, in teaching and learning Calculus. This paper reports results from experimental study details on implementation of Microsoft Mathematics in Calculus, students' achievement and the effects of the use of Microsoft Mathematics on students' attitudes in relation to such experience. Two classes of the students from the first year student in Universitas Serang Raya were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching...
A comparative analysis was conducted on student attitudes and skills among student interns, academic-based service-learners, and cultural-based service-learners. Students did not differ in scores at the beginning of the semester, but by the end of the term student interns had higher multicultural awareness and intercultural relationship scores and lower racial and civic attitude scores than did cultural-based service-learners. Field supervisors also appraised student interns as having a better...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Student Development, Racial Attitudes, Cultural Awareness,...
A "knowledge survey" and a formative evaluation process led to major changes in an instructor's course and teaching methods over a 5-year period. Design of the survey incorporated several innovations, including: a) using "confidence survey" rather than "knowledge survey" as the title; b) completing an instructional task analysis with an instructional designer's perspective of the Gagné framework rather than Bloom's taxonomy; and c) using a rating scale based on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Surveys, Knowledge Level, Self Esteem, Student Evaluation, Formative...
Adaptive learning techniques have typically scheduled practice using learners' accuracy and item presentation history. We describe an adaptive learning system (Adaptive Response Time Based Sequencing--ARTS) that uses both accuracy and response time (RT) as direct inputs into sequencing. Response times are used to assess learning strength and to determine mastery, making both fluency and accuracy goals of learning. ARTS optimizes spacing by expanding item recurrence intervals as an inverse...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reaction Time, Accuracy, Cognitive Science, Grade 3, Elementary School Students,...
This paper reports on how different types of teachers responded to in-service aimed at developing investigative-based science education (IBSE) in primary schools, and the extent to which they applied their new skills in the classroom. Common items from evaluation questionnaires allowed data to be combined from three major in-service programmes. Using complete data sets from 120 teachers, cluster analysis enabled three teacher types to be identified: a small group of "science unsures,"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Science...
In this study, researchers evaluate a homework exercise assigned before a standalone information literacy session. Students in a Master of Education program completed a worksheet using the ERIC database thesaurus. The researchers conducted pre- and posttests within a single library session to assess student learning, using a control group for comparison. The treatment group did not demonstrate better thesaurus skills than students who had regular library instruction alone, but results pointed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Literacy, Homework, Assignments, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups,...
simSchool, an online simulator that has been used to enhance teacher preparation since 2003, models different types of students and provides virtual practice sessions for teachers to assign tasks and interact with students. In this article the authors (a) examine changes in preservice teacher perceptions of teaching confidence and teaching experience resulting from simSchool use, and (b) report findings from recent studies of a new proposed measure for simSchool data, pedagogical balance....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Environment, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes,...
Raising standards through inquiry-based science education (IBSE)--what are the challenges for pre-service teacher education? What do ongoing teachers and active teachers learn from each other when planning, conducting and evaluating minds-on and hands-on IBSE activities in the classroom? What do they learn "beyond" IBSE? The Bremen teacher education course "INQUIRE for Teacher Students--inquiry-based learning in the context of biodiversity loss and climate change" aims to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Standards, Science Education, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teacher Education,...
Within the European TILA project a case study was carried out where pupils from schools in Finland and the Netherlands engaged in debating sessions using the 3D virtual world of OpenSim once a week for a period of 5 weeks. The case study had two main objectives: (1) to study the impact that the discussion tasks undertaken in a virtual environment have on the discussion skills and motivations of high school pupils, and (2) to explore how the presence of a peer from a different culture might...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Debate, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods,...
The purpose of this action research is to improve the achievement of students in general and, to examine the perception of students and teachers about cooperative learning, to identify major factors affecting the implementation of cooperative learning and to identify the possible strategies used to improve cooperative learning in Madawalabu University, School of Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, particularly Department of Natural Resource Management. Descriptive case study design...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Natural Resources, Cooperative Learning, Achievement Gains,...
The study aimed to assess the effect of ICT assisted real and virtual learning performance over the traditional approach of secondary school students. Non-Equivalent Pretest-Posttest Quasi Experimental Design used to assess and relate the effects of independent variables virtual learning on dependent variables (i.e. learning performance). Extraneous variables minimized through ANCOVA, and in fact, the findings generalized on the whole population. Class IX of school 1 (n = 55) assigned to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary School Students,...
The purpose of this study was to determine if the sequential method of teaching art skills (Brookes, 1986) could improve the success of intermediate grade school art students. Students were required to draw pictures of still life. A between groups pre-posttest crossover design was used to compare and evaluate the quality of perspective drawings before and after training. The results indicated significant improvement in the drawing skills of elementary students after they had been taught with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade 6, Control Groups, Art Education, Pretests Posttests, Visual Perception, Snow,...
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect on students' attitudes toward mathematics when cartoons are used in teaching integers. The research was designed in the form of a pre-test and post-test with a quasi experimental control group. The research participant group was composed of sixty-one (61) 7th grade students attending an elementary school in Bolu during the 2008-2009 academic year. "Integers" were taught during six weeks using seventeen cartoons developed for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Mathematics, Cartoons, Pretests Posttests,...
This report reviews Chapter 1 programs in North Carolina during 1986-87. Data are provided on the following topics: (1) program administration; (2) Chapter 1 programs in local education agencies; (3) program participants; (4) instruction; (5) staff; (6) expenditures; (7) training; (8) parent involvement; (9) student achievement; (10) evaluation results; (11) Chapter 1 programs for delinquent children; (12) general findings; and (13) recommendations. More than 113,500 North Carolina students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation,...
It is a bitter reality that the curricula and traditional pedagogy prevailing in public schools of Pakistan in general and Sindh in particular do not incorporate the algebraic concepts properly. Both the content and the presentation therein cannot be considered up to the mark, thereby making "Algebra" a tough and dry subject. This quasi-experimental study focused to find out the effect of teaching algebra through social constructivism on the students learning outcomes of 7th graders...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Algebra, Public Schools, Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups,...
The purpose of this study was to field test an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference. Based on a prominent evaluation taxonomy, the instrument provides a practical, low-cost approach to evaluating the quality of professional development interventions across a wide variety of disciplines. The instrument includes not only the questions typically associated with measuring...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Pretests Posttests, Field Tests, Professional Development, Evaluation, Intervention,...
This study was an investigation of the effects of sequenced Kodaly literacy-based music instruction on the spatial reasoning skills of kindergarten students. Subjects in the pretest-posttest control group design were 54 kindergarten students who were enrolled in three kindergarten classes in a rural elementary community school. Experimental group one (n = 18) received Kodaly music instruction and experimental group two (n = 18) received computer instruction (with no classroom music training)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Music Education, Music, Community Schools,...
Every learning environment may attempt to raise successful students, but will not achieve the desired results if several essential elements are not considered in the instructional design process. These elements can be classified interior and exterior conditions. Learner characteristics, items of the interior conditions such as learning style, age, maturity level, interest are essential in designing learning environments process. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research Design, Cognitive Style, Educational Environment, Learning Processes,...
"Non-native organisms are a major threat to biodiversity". This statement is often made by biologists, but general conclusions cannot be drawn easily because of contradictory evidence. To introduce pupils aged 11-14 years to this topic, we employed an educational program dealing with non-native animals in Central Europe. The pupils took part in a lesson giving general information about the topic, followed by a species identification quiz. Attitude, emotions and state of knowledge of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Biodiversity, Outdoor Education, Field Trips, Ornithology,...
The aim of this study is to define whether using exercise-based games increase the performance of learning. For this reason, two basic questions were tried to be answered in the study. First, is there any difference in learning between the group that was given exercise-based games and the group that was not? Second, is there any difference in learning between the group that used exercise-based games at end of the process of learning and the group that was not applied this but taken the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Education Majors, Learning Processes, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods,...
The inclusion of digital multimedia into teaching and learning has changed instructional strategies in the classroom. While this course has been traditionally given in lecture-based environment, an attempt was made to move it towards a more multimedia-mediated environment to provide a student-centred approach in teaching the principles of animation. The aim of this project is to incorporate Gagne's 9 Events of Instructions in a multimedia-mediated student-centred learning environment to teach...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Science...
Study aim: To determine anxiolytic effects of acute physical exertions in relation to the initial anxiety state and trait in women. Material and methods: A group of 163 women aged 16-56 years, attending fitness clubs in Warsaw, participated in the study. They selected a single exercise to perform--strength, aerobic or mixed, lasting 30 to over 60 min. They were requested to fill Spielberger's STAI questionnaires for determining the state anxiety (pre- and post-exercise) and trait anxiety...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Females, Correlation, Anxiety, Adults, Adolescents, Pretests...
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of Brain-based learning (BBL) on the academic achievement of students with different learning styles. The study group consists of students from the department of Social Sciences Teacher Education in the Faculty of Education at Mugla University (N=68). In the study, a pre-test-post-test experimental design was used. Data were collected by using academic achievement tests and the Kolb's Experiential Learning Style questionnaire. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Cognitive Style, Academic...
Research indicates that the quality of co-parenting and couple relationships has an impact on parenting and on children's development, including their social skills and academic abilities. However, few applied studies have tested whether efforts to enhance the couple and co-parenting relationship result in benefits to the children, and no research exists that tests these assumptions with underrepresented populations. This article provides information on an ongoing novel study of Head Start...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Child Rearing, Preschool Children,...
The objective of present research is to conduct validity and reliability analysis of the verbal section of Test of Pretended Play that will measure pretended play behaviors of pre-school age children (3-6 years of age). Test of Pretended Play was first developed by Vicky Lewis and Jill Boucher in 1997. This test aimed to measure pretended play behavioral development of normal children between ages 1 to 6 besides children with mental developmental problems till the age 8. The test consists of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Measures (Individuals), Autism, Play, Preschool Children, Media Adaptation, Adoption...
Inability to use knowledge is one of the major problems that university graduates face. Some instructional designers recommend situated learning for the solution. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of situated learning on students' school motivation and achievement. The two main hypotheses are: 1- Situated learning increases learning. 2- Situated learning increases school motivation. Thirty four psychology junior students at Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran participated in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Instructional Design, Simulation, Video...
This study has been conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using poetry to teach vocabulary in a foreign language classroom. It aims to find answers to two research questions (1) "Do the learners enhance more extensive vocabulary knowledge by means of poetry-based vocabulary teaching activities than the traditional coursebook activities?" (2) "Is there a statistically significant difference between male and female students in the experimental group considering the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Grammar, Grade 7, Vocabulary Development,...
Behavioral problems in childhood are associated with academic difficulties including in-school suspensions, high school dropout, and low academic grades and achievement scores. Students with disruptive behavior problems demonstrate higher rates of social risk factors than their nondisruptive peers, including school maladjustment, antisocial activity, substance use, sexual activity, and conduct problems. Given the relationship between children's disruptive behaviors and negative outcomes, it is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adjustment (to Environment), Intervention, Behavior Problems, Parent Participation,...
This research is aimed to formulate the effective teacher teamwork program in municipal schools in Thailand. Primary survey on current situation and problem was conducted to develop the plan to suggest potential programs. Samples were randomly selected from municipal schools by using multi-stage sampling method in order to investigate their organization's situation and problem. Program for effective teamwork is an approach to enhance their working condition using collaboration of all teachers....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development, Teamwork, Program...
Bowers (2001) described how our ecological crisis is marked by metaphors of difference and separation. By adopting an ecological paradigm, students have the opportunity to move past harmful distinctions that have characterized relations with the earth. Instead, students can move to a deep recognition of the interconnectedness of living things. Empathy, particularly with the environment, is deeply tied to such a paradigm. To help students develop this paradigm, a critical place-based art...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Empathy, Mixed Methods Research, Place Based Education, Art Education, Ecology,...
Visualizing physical concepts through models is an essential method in many sciences. While students are mostly proficient in handling mathematical aspects of problems, they frequently lack the ability to visualize and interpret abstract physical concepts in a meaningful way. In this paper, initially the electric circuits and related concepts were taught to tenth grade students traditionally, then, once more, only concepts of electric potential and electric potential difference were taught to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Equipment, Visualization, Concept...
Under task-based learning (TBL) framework, language learners engage in purposeful, problem-oriented, and outcome-driven tasks that are comparable to traditional teaching methods which focus only on the correctness of grammar. In this study, the author employs Jane Willis' TBL framework and examines its effects on the improvement of EFL learners' writing competence when such a framework is applied to English writing course for English majors in Chinese EFL context. The study results are derived...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning,...
Writing is an important experience through which we are able to share ideas, arouse feelings, persuade and convince other people (White & Arndt, 1991). It is important to view writing not solely as the product of an individual, but as a cognitive, social and cultural act. Writing is an act that takes place within a context, that accomplishes a particular purpose and that is appropriately shaped for its intended audience (Hamplyones & Condon, 1989).The present research considered the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer...
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of met cognitive strategies on reading comprehension among Jordanian university students. The participants of this research consists of two classes of English Course , Level one with 60 students, 30 in the control group and 30 in the experimental group. Then, Metacognitive reading strategies instructions were administered to identify their met cognitive strategy awareness. The experimental group underwent a treatment based on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Metacognition, English (Second Language),...
This descriptive case study examined student attitudes, writing skills and content knowledge of urban fourth and fifth graders (6 males, 9 female) during a six-week literacy, thinking skill, and art-integrated environmental science unit. Pre- and post-test questions were used to address knowledge of environmental problems and student environmental actions. Students expressed knowledge and suggestions for positive action of youth through four essays throughout the unit, the final essay being...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Writing Skills, Knowledge Level, Urban Schools, Grade 4, Grade 5,...
In this study, the effect of using Jigsaw II and Jigsaw IV techniques on the subject of "Atoms-The Basic Unit of Matter" in science course of 6th grade on academic achievement was examined. Pre-test post-test control group research was used in the study. Study population is all secondary schools in Turgutlu district of Manisa province and the sample group was determined from "Samiye Nuri Sevil Secondary School" among 20 secondary schools in Turgutlu district through cluster...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Science Instruction, Grade 6, Science Achievement, Pretests Posttests, Control...
The purpose of the current research was to examine the effects of a sequence of classroom activities that integrated mathematics content with music elements aimed at providing teachers an alternative approach for teaching mathematics. Two classes of third grade students (n = 56) from an elementary school in the west coast of the United States participated in the research. A random assignment pretest-posttest control group design was used to examine students' changes in mathematical ability...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Music Activities, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School...
The aim of this research is to develop a learning model which blends factors from learning environment and engineering design concept for learning in computer programming course. The usage of the model was also analyzed. This study presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the model. The research methodology is divided into three phases, they are: reviewing related literatures and surveying needs and problems in teaching computer programming in order to analyze and synthesize the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Engineering, Design, Computer Science Education, Programming, Foreign Countries,...
Using a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test control groups, 93 eighth grade students were randomly assigned either to the experimental or to the control group and responded to the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale two weeks before and after the intervention. While the students in the experimental group were instructed in quality books for children and reading comprehension skills based on metacognitive strategy for 10 weeks, the control group only received typical non-quality books....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Literature, Books, Metacognition, Self Esteem, Foreign Countries,...
The emergence of web 2.0 technologies has created new opportunities and challenges in the field of second and foreign language learning. Among all web 2.0 tools, blogs can be considered the most well-known one. The present study was an attempt to determine the effectiveness of using blogs as an independent learning tool to develop students' reading skills. Blogs can be divided into three main types; teacher's blog, class blog, and learner's blog. Participants were 22 first level students in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Teaching Methods,...
This research examines the effectiveness of multi sensory approach for the purpose of improving the knowledge on English Letter sound correspondence among mild disabled students in the state of Kuwait. The discussion in this study is based on the multisensory approach that could be applied in the teaching of reading skills as well as phonemic awareness skills which could enable the students to acquire the early skills of reading. A total of 20 respondents were involved in the process of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Multisensory Learning, Teaching...
American children continue to be less physically active than they were a decade ago. Web-based programs (e-Learning), requiring minimal teacher training and expertise, could contribute to improvements in children's health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the e-Learning module Healthy Hearts 4 Kids (HH) on the physical activity knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of 233 fifth grade children. A 2x3 repeated measures design was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Activities, Learning Modules, Grade 5, Web Based Instruction, Physical...
One 9-year-old child was taught conditional discriminations between dictated names in Spanish and their corresponding pictures across three stimulus sets while her 10-year-old brother observed. Posttests revealed the emergence of symmetry relations in the form of oral naming skills by both children. (Contains 2 figures.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Vocabulary, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, Pretests Posttests, Oral...
This research examined the change in the perceptions of preservice teachers regarding the use of digital minigames to support middle school level social studies learning. The results of a Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test for matched pairs revealed that participants' (N = 18) perceptions were positively modified by participation in a series of digital mini-games [T = 5.5, p less than 0.01 (two tailed)]. Results also indicated that the majority of preservice teachers agreed that digital games do have...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Middle Schools, Elementary Education, Educational Games, Social...
The present experiment investigated the impact of contextually trained discriminations on gambling behavior. Nine recreational slot-machine players were initially exposed to concurrently available computerized slot machines that were each programmed on random-ratio schedules of reinforcement and differed only in color. All participants distributed responding equally across the two slot machines. A conditional discrimination procedure was then used to teach the contextual cues representing the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cues, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Experiments, Pretests Posttests,...
To pilot a peer literacy program, a pretest-posttest study was conducted involving seventy (70) students from Arellano High School as tutees and 12 De La Salle University-Manila College of Education students as reading tutors. Though the results suggest the lack of impact of the Program on the Reading Grades of the tutees, the tutors' journals reveal that the tutors benefited more from the program. The problems in using the National Service Training Program or NSTP as the vehicle in piloting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Tutors, Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education, Pilot Projects, High Schools,...
Out-of-school programs provide a context for enriching academic experiences. This study describes a 12-week after-school reading program, Project Expanding Horizons, which is based on the Schoolwide Enrichment Model-Reading (SEM-R) framework. SEM-R has three phases: exposure, supported independent reading, and choice. The exposure phase is designed to broaden students' literature experiences through short read-alouds. During the next phase, supported independent reading, teachers circulate and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement,...
