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Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2019
This study examined learning differences for students who were given instructor-provided examples during a lesson compared with student-generated examples. In an experiment, 348 students were exposed to an online lesson about fear appeals and were randomly assigned to either a condition where (a) examples of key concepts were provided by the…
Descriptors: Models, Concept Formation, Individual Differences, Student Role
Gropper, George L. – Educational Technology, 2015
Instructional design can be more effective if it is as fixedly dedicated to the accommodation of individual differences as it currently is to the accommodation of subject matters. That is the hypothesis. A menu of accommodation options is provided that is applicable at each of three stages of instructional development or administration: before,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Individual Differences, Student Needs, Remedial Instruction
Cope, Liza M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the impact of teachers' characteristics and self-reported practices on students' Algebra achievement while controlling for students' characteristics. This study is based on the secondary analysis of data collected from a nationally representative sample of 9 th grade students and their mathematics teachers during…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Educational Practices, Measurement Techniques, Algebra
Athanasou, James A.; Langan, Dianne – 1999
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the roles of interest, knowledge, and learning strategies on recall within a specific subject domain at an early stage of learning. Students (n=17) at two levels in a postgraduate music therapy course were assessed for their levels of prior knowledge, interest, and the number of strategies they used to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Knowledge Level