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Sidabutar, Ropinus – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The research was aimed to investigate the effect of various, innovated teaching models to improved the student's achievement in various topic in Mathematics. The study was conduct experiment by using innovated teaching with contextual, media and web which are the compared. with conventional teaching method. The result showed the innovation in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Student Improvement
Netusil, Anton J.; Kockler, Lois H. – 1974
During each of two school quarters, approximately 60 college students enrolled in a mathematics course were randomly assigned to an experimental group or a control group. The control group received instruction by the lecture method only; the experimental group received the same instruction, except that six computer-assisted instruction (CAI) units…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
King, Estelle H. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1978
An experiment in teaching mathematics to non-science, non-mathematics majors by two different methods, lecture and "open classroom," is reported. The primary findings of the study indicate that students learn equally well in either setting and that student personality characteristics may have a slight effect on individual gains. (JMD)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Teaching, Higher Education
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Boaler, Jo – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1998
Traditional and "progressive" methods of teaching mathematics were compared using high school students from two schools in England. Students at the traditional school (approximately 200 students) developed an inert knowledge they did not find useful in the real world. Those taught by more progressive methods (approximately 100 students)…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Experimental Teaching
McClendon, Marie; McArdle, Michele – 2002
This paper reports that the student population enrolled in remedial mathematics is rapidly increasing, while funding for these classes in Florida is declining. The Math Department at the Winter Park Campus (WPC) of Florida's Valencia Community College (VCC) has developed a curriculum that offers a variety of instructional formats to its remedial…
Descriptors: Algebra, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Werdelin, Ingvar – 1968
The value of using inductive and deductive methods in instructing a mathematical principle and foreign language alphabet are tested with sample groups of sixth and eighth grade students in two separate educational experiments. In both cases, the instructional methods used were--(1) instruction in principle before application to examples, (2)…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Convergent Thinking