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Chen, Yi-Ching; Chang, Yu-Shan; Chuang, Meng-Jung – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Virtual reality (VR) can promote design performance, and may generate a high cognitive load and affect creative design thinking as well. In order to examine the effect of VR application on cognitive load and engineering design creativity, this study recruited 81 eighth-grade students as participants and employed a non-equivalent-groups…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Creative Thinking
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Al-Qahtani, Abdulaziz Ali – English Language Teaching, 2016
Despite the efforts made by the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia, there is still much to be done in order to nourish creativity in schools. According to a number of studies, there is an urgent need to reconsider the role of creativity in the current educational programmes because there is an increasing gap between the reality of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, English Teachers
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Yager, Robert E. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2007
The major advantage of STS is the kind of teaching it allows and demands. Twelve middle school teachers who were enthused with STS teaching selected two sections for a research study. One section was the experimental STS section; the other followed the course syllabus and textbook closely. The major findings indicate the advantages for STS as a…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Instructional Innovation
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Koch, Janice; Feingold, Brooke – Journal of Technology Education, 2006
This study explores the use of design technology to teach a unit on poetry in a fifth grade class. The main goals of the poetry unit were to develop students' abilities to use their own creative voices to express themselves and to write descriptive poetry that creates detailed images for the reader. This unit was implemented in a fifth grade class…
Descriptors: Action Research, Poetry, Engineering Technology, Design
Kwon, Oh Nam; Park, Jung Sook; Park, Jee Hyun – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
The purpose of this study was to develop a program to help cultivate divergent thinking in mathematics based on open-ended problems and to investigate its effect. The participants were 398 seventh grade students attending middle schools in Seoul. A method of pre- and post-testing was used to measure mainly divergent thinking skills through…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics