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Marcia Nichols; Andrew M. Petzold; Robert L. Dunbar – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2025
This Case Study reviews a quasi-experimental research project in the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Researching the effects of pedagogic interventions poses a number of methodologic challenges. Our original research goal was to create an assignment that would ameliorate the problem of content knowledge loss. Teaching and…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Educational Research, Mixed Methods Research, Teaching Methods
Quazi Mahtab Zaman – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2025
The Stitching Urban Vision (SUV)1 method is innovative, facilitating children to co-create a sense of empowerment. SUV© fosters an understanding of negotiation using a shared vision. SUV© sits apart from traditional negotiating methods that often result in delayed, unresolved, and fragmented ideas. Adults often resist reaching collective decisions…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Cooperative Learning
Teboho Pitso – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2015
Based on my 5 years' experience that spanned the period 2002--2007 as an academic developer responsible for students and staff development, I realised that creativity was generally marginalised in undergraduate studies. In 2008, I enrolled for my PhD with the purpose of finding out whether advanced undergraduate classrooms supported students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Doctoral Students, College Faculty, Creativity
Todd I. Herrenkohl; Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl; Michelle A. Proulx; John Benner; Naomi Calvo – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case describes a body of work structured around a research-practice partnership that began in 2013 to support the implementation and evaluation of a universal social-emotional learning curriculum in the Bellevue (Washington) School District. Research activities are organized around a Design-Based Implementation Research framework, which…
Descriptors: School Districts, Partnerships in Education, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Evaluation
Plant, Anne – CORE, 1979
Variation in syntactic difficulty in arithmetic problems is studied to determine its influence on students' ability to solve problems correctly. Findings in a study of elementary school students indicated syntactic difficulty affects problem solving ability, regardless of sex (f=fiche number). (MH)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Schackow, Joy Bronston; O'Connell, Susan – Heinemann, 2008
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM's) Process Standards support teaching that helps students develop independent, effective mathematical thinking. The books in the Heinemann Math Process Standards Series give every middle grades math teacher the opportunity to explore each standard in depth. The series offers friendly,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, National Standards
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Burton, C. Emory – Teaching Sociology, 1988
Research shows that films can be effective in engaging the interest of students in an appealing manner. States that, with the growth of video cassettes, feature films should become an economical and more widely employed teaching medium. Suggestions for using films in education are given and sociologically relevant films in 39 categories are…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Innovation, Filmographies, Higher Education
Hogan, Bob – Crystal Springs Books, 2005
Using this four CD-ROM disc set, teachers can have their very own math problem solving mentor as a leading expert in Singapore Math guides them through a lively presentation, working through math problems and explaining how Singapore has become the world's leading method in math. The expert's explanation of how to use Singapore's model-drawing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Computer Assisted Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
North Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL. – 1995
Items in the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's (NCREL) School Development Library series are multimedia packages consisting of print, video, audio, and CD-ROM resources designed to support educators in their efforts to improve classroom instruction. This particular set consists of a 35-minute video and a printed booklet focusing on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Evaluation, Grade 1
North Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL. – 1995
Items in the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's (NCREL) School Development Library series are multimedia packages consisting of print, video, and CD-ROM resources designed to support educators in their efforts to improve classroom instruction. This particular set consists of a 40-minute video and a printed booklet focusing on Dwight…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Evaluation, Grade 4
North Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL. – 1995
Items in the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's (NCREL) School Development Library series are multimedia packages consisting of print, video, audio, and CD-ROM resources designed to support educators in their efforts to improve classroom instruction. This particular set consists of a 40-minute video and a printed booklet focusing on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Evaluation, Grade 5
Dunn, Dana S., Ed.; Smith, Randolph A., Ed.; Beins, Barney, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This book provides a showcase for "best practices" in teaching statistics and research methods in two- and four-year colleges and universities. A helpful resource for teaching introductory, intermediate, and advanced statistics and/or methods, the book features coverage of: (1) ways to integrate these courses; (2) how to promote ethical conduct;…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistics, Research Methodology, Higher Education