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Almulla, Mohammed Abdullatif – Cogent Education, 2023
This study looks at whether creativity and critical thinking help students solve problems and improve their grades by mediating the link between 21st century skills (learning motivation, cooperativity, and interaction with peers, engagement with peers, and a smart classroom environment). The mediating relationship between creativity and critical…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking, Creativity, Problem Solving
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Ugwuozor, Felix O. – Cogent Education, 2020
For poetry as a stand-alone subject, there is very scant empirical evidence that exist which estimates the impact of constructivism on its learning and teaching in Africa. There are, however, a number of existing studies in this regard in the Western context. This paper, using an experimental approach, examines the impact of constructivism on…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Poetry, Junior High School Students, Academic Achievement
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Ambusaidi, Intisar; Badiali, Bernard; Alkharousi, Khalid – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Research on science-education reform affirms the importance of taking into consideration teachers? pedagogical beliefs in relation of the constructivist perspective to ensure successful implementation of a reform-oriented curriculum. In addition, prominent studies pinpoint the need for teachers to have sufficient pedagogical content knowledge…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Teachers, Beliefs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Tosun, Bahadir Cahit – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
The current study is a quantitative research that aims to throw light on the place of students' views on contextual vocabulary teaching in conformity with Constructivism (CVTC) in the field of foreign language teaching. Hence, the study investigates whether any significant correlation exists between the fourth year university students' attitudes…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Statistical Analysis
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Franke, Gaitano; Bogner, Franz X. – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
We examined selected situational emotions (interest, well-being and anxiety) experienced by 291 secondary school tenth graders during a hands-on gene technology lesson. Two different instruction groups (I-1, I-2) participated in the same teaching unit, in which four basic gene technology experiments were performed. Using a modified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Students, Anxiety
Töman, Ufuk; Akdeniz, Ali Riza; Odabasi Çimer, Sabiha; Gürbüz, Fatih – Online Submission, 2013
In order to achieve the targeted objectives desired level of education and modern learning theories for learner centered methods are recommended. In this context the use of worksheets developed and that student participation is considered to be one of the methods. This research is one of the ethyl alcohol fermentation biology issues and prepare…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Constructivism (Learning), Biology, Science Instruction
Ziemer, Cherilyn G. – Online Submission, 2013
Although inquiry-based learning has been debated throughout the greater educational community and demonstrated with some effect in modern classrooms, little quantitative analysis has been performed to empirically validate sustained benefits. This quantitative study focused on whether inquiry-based pedagogy actually brought about sustained and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Academic Achievement, Statistical Analysis
Metcalfe, Laura – Online Submission, 2014
This research project was a study that was based on a prior dissertation study that analyzed student success, as measured by achievement tests, within local communities with high poverty rates. Two Title 1 Reward high schools in the Phoenix area were examined through qualitative case studies to determine what had been implemented to help eliminate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Success, Poverty
McDavitt, David S. – 1994
This study investigated the effectiveness of experiential learning in promoting student understanding and achievement, as compared to traditional expository instruction. Twenty third-grade students from central Virginia were divided into two heterogeneous groups and taught a single lesson on air using identical content objectives. The control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Students, Experiential Learning