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Liu, Chiung-Lin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
This study used OpenTTD, a video game that supports in-depth experiential learning, to evaluate undergraduate students' opinions regarding supply chain and logistics management learning. The 101 undergraduate participants were assigned to either an experimental group or a control group. From the post-test questionnaires, the analytical results…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Questionnaires
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Chen, Lidan – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study reports an empirical study of an explicit instruction of corpus-aided Business English collocations and verifies its effectiveness in improving learners' collocation awareness and learner autonomy, as a result of which is significant improvement of learners' collocation competence. An eight-week instruction in keywords' collocations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Business English
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Ma, Shufeng; Zhang, Jie; Anderson, Richard C.; Morris, Joshua; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim Thi; Miller, Brian; Jadallah, May; Sun, Jingjing; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Scott, Theresa; Hsu, Yu-Li; Zhang, Xin; Latawiec, Beata; Grabow, Kay – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Instructional influences on productive use of academic vocabulary were investigated among 460 mostly African American and Latina/o fifth graders from 36 classrooms in eight public schools serving low-income families. Students received a 6-week unit on wolf management involving collaborative group work (CG) or direct instruction (DI). The big…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Low Income Groups, African American Students
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Tsai, Hung-Hsu; Lai, Yen-Shou; Lo, Shih-Che; Yu, Pao-Ta – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
The paper investigates the impact of learning effects on the study of life-like multimedia materials (LMMs) which are produced by the LMM tool. Teachers can readily utilize the tool to make the LMMs for their instructions in traditional classrooms. When students study the LMMs out of class, they can realistically recall teacher's teaching…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design, Teaching Methods
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Cessna, Stephen; Neufeld, Douglas Graber; Horst, S. Jeanne – Natural Sciences Education, 2013
Claims of the (non-)sustainability of a given agricultural practice generally hinge on scientific evidence and the reliability of that evidence, or at least the perception of its reliability. Advocates of sustainable agriculture may dismiss science as purely subjective, or at the other extreme, may inappropriately elevate scientific findings to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Agriculture, Reflection, Scientific Methodology
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Altanopoulou, Panagiota; Tselios, Nikolaos; Katsanos, Christos; Georgoutsou, Maria; Panagiotaki, Maria-Antonia – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
A considerable interest in using Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis in education has been observed recently. Despite the advantages of the wiki technology, a number of questions concerning design of appropriate activities and their learning effectiveness remain open. In this paper, we present the results of three activities involving first-year…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Evidence Based Practice, Web 2.0 Technologies, Information Technology
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Murphrey, Theresa Pesl; Rutherford, Tracy A.; Doerfert, David L.; Edgar, Leslie D.; Edgar, Don W. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
Educational technology continues to expand with multi-user virtual environments (e.g., Second Lifeā„¢) being the latest technology. Understanding a virtual environment's usability can enhance educational planning and effective use. Usability includes the interaction quality between an individual and the item being assessed. The purpose was to assess…
Descriptors: Usability, Virtual Classrooms, Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education
Schnucker, Robert V. – 1974
To investigate the affective and cognitive gains produced in an auto-tutorial world civilizations course, two groups of students were compared. A traditionally-taught (TT) section of 145 students and an auto-tutorially (AT) taught section of 140 were given pre- and posttests and used the same text and Modular Learning Program. The TT section…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments, Educational Innovation
Ilot, John Frederick David – 1969
Two laboratory instructional approaches, individual project and mass production methods, were compared to determine their relative effectiveness in developing student understanding of industry in industrial arts. It was hypothesized that knowledge of tools, operations, industrial organization, and materials of industry could be taught as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis