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Fazarro, Dominick E.; Pannkuk, Tim; Pavelock, Dwayne; Hubbard, Darcy – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2009
This study was conducted to research learning style preferences of agriculture students. Specifically, the objectives which guided the study were: (1) to determine the learning style preferences of undergraduate agricultural students enrolled in a given Soil Science course and (2) to ascertain if there were differences in the students' course…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Tools, Cognitive Style, Grade Point Average
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Shirvani, Hosin – American Secondary Education, 2009
The participants in this study were high school Hispanic students from four geometry classes. All students were taught by the same teacher, and the duration of the experiment was for one term or six weeks. Two classes were placed in the control group and another two classes in the experimental group. In the control group, students took weekly…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Tests
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Kyun, Sun A.; Lee, Hyunjeong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of presentation formats of worked examples and the interaction effects between the presentation formats of worked examples and the prior knowledge of learners. An investigation with 97 middle school students working in four conditions (CPWE, CWE, PWE, and the control group) was conducted. The…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning, Middle School Students
Rhoads, Misty L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare the use of podcasts to traditional delivery of information in classrooms. Four podcasts were created on the topics of asthma, diabetes, seizure disorders, and acute infections to aid students in reviewing for quizzes. Knowledge retained of students using podcasts was compared to the knowledge retained of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Health Education, Seizures, Comparative Analysis
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Bilgin, Ibrahim; Senocak, Erdal; Sozbilir, Mustafa – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This study aimed at investigating effects of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) on pre-service teachers' performance on conceptual and quantitative problems about concepts of gases. The subjects of this study were 78 second year undergraduates from two different classes enrolled to General Chemistry course in the Department of Primary Mathematics…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Problem Based Learning, Chemistry
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Chuang, Tsung-Yen; Chen, Wei-Fan – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
This experimental study investigated whether computer-based video games facilitate children's cognitive learning. In comparison to traditional computer-assisted instruction (CAI), this study explored the impact of the varied types of instructional delivery strategies on children's learning achievement. One major research null hypothesis was…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Acree, Karen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A mixed method study was conducted to evaluate the effects of clicker use on retention rates, success rates as measured by final grades, and improvement from pretest to posttest scores in a community college business microcomputer applications course. Learner perceptions towards clicker use were also evaluated. The study group consisted of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grades (Scholastic), Formative Evaluation, Questioning Techniques
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Kocoglu, Zeynep; Ozek, Yesim; Kesli, Yesim – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Although the benefits of blended learning have been well documented in educational research, relatively few studies have examined blended learning in language teacher education. This study discusses a blended learning approach for a teacher training program designed for in-service English language teachers, and investigates its effectiveness by…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Research, Language Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
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Lin, Cheng-Yao – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2009
This study investigated the comparative efficiency of Web-based instruction (WBI) and traditional teaching methods on preservice teachers' fraction knowledge. Students' knowledge of fractions was measured using a Fraction Knowledge Test. The test consisted of 32 items and was administered as pre- and posttests to a total of 42 preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Preservice Teachers, Web Based Instruction
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Morra, Ana Maria; Asis, Maria Ines – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2009
Providing feedback is one of the foreign language writing teacher's most important tasks (Ferris, 2007). However there is less certainty about the techniques that should be used (K. Hyland & F. Hyland, 2006). This article reports on research that investigated the effects of two types of teacher feedback, on-tape and written, and of the absence…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences
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Wang, Ling – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
This study developed an interactive multimedia-based software program for Optics instruction, which was expected to overcome the imperfection of traditional optical labs. The researcher evaluated the effectiveness of the program through an experimental study that compared the learning outcomes of the students who used and did not use the software.…
Descriptors: Optics, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction, Intermode Differences
Taylor, Sharon A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Universities are trending towards displacing traditional printed textbooks (p-books) with electronic textbooks (e-books), even though an incomplete body of knowledge exists about the learning value of using e-books as instructional materials. As a result, this dissertation study was conducted to determine if digital textbooks are as…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, College Students, Instructional Design, Transfer of Training
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Kurumeh, M. S. C.; Achor, E. E. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2008
This study determined the effect of Cuisenaire Rods' approach on some Nigeria primary pupils' achievement in decimal fractions. Three hypotheses guided the study. A total of 200 Primary six pupils (that is, 6th grade) from randomly selected schools in Makurdi metropolis of Benue State of Nigeria served as the sample for the study. A Mathematics…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
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Bowman, Laura L. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2009
Grade earned and class attendance records were examined to determine if posting PowerPoint notes on a web-based course management system was related to enhanced performance or increased absences. There were no differences in either grades or absences between classes that had notes posted and those that did not. However, results indicated…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Attendance, Average Daily Attendance, Courseware
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Weigle, David S.; Buben, Amelia; Burke, Caitlin C.; Carroll, Nels D.; Cook, Brett M.; Davis, Benjamin S.; Dubowitz, Gerald; Fisher, Rian E.; Freeman, Timothy C.; Gibbons, Stephen M.; Hansen, Hale A.; Heys, Kimberly A.; Hopkins, Brittany; Jordan, Brittany L.; McElwain, Katherine L.; Powell, Frank L.; Reinhart, Katherine E.; Robbins, Charles D.; Summers, Cameron C.; Walker, Jennifer D.; Weber, Steven S.; Weinheimer, Caroline J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2007
In this article, an experiential learning activity is described in which 19 university undergraduates made experimental observations on each other to explore physiological adaptations to high altitude. Following 2 wk of didactic sessions and baseline data collection at sea level, the group ascended to a research station at 12,500-ft elevation.…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Physiology, Control Groups, Experiential Learning
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