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Beyond Jeopardy and Lectures: Using "Microsoft PowerPoint" as a Game Design Tool to Teach Science
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Siko, Jason; Barbour, Michael; Toker, Sacip – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2011
To date, research involving homemade PowerPoint games as an instructional tool has not shown statistically significant gains in student performance. This paper examines the results of a study comparing the performance of students in a high school chemistry course who created homemade PowerPoint games as a test review with the students who used a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Materials, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
College Textbook Reading Assignments and Class Time Activity
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Aagaard, Lola; Conner, Timothy W., II; Skidmore, Ronald L. – Online Submission, 2010
It has been reported (Lei, Barlett, Gorney, & Herschbach, 2010; Sikorski et al., 2002) that only a minority of college students actually read the course textbook or other assigned readings in preparation for examinations. Suggested strategies to remedy this situation include quizzes (Ruscio, 2001; Ryan, 2006), study worksheets (Aagaard &…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Textbooks, Assignments, Electronic Publishing
The Game of Politics Simulation: An Exploratory Study
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Kahn, Melvin A.; Perez, Kathleen M. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2009
This paper is an exploratory study of Professor Don Jansiewicz's GAME of POLITICS (The Game) simulation. The course instructor employs The Game in his introductory American Politics class as a learning tool for better understanding the legislative-executive process. Our exploratory study used legislative-executive process questions as part of two…
Descriptors: College Students, Tests, Study Guides, Educational Games
Learner Control versus Program Control as Adaptive Strategies for Selection of Instructional Support on Math Rules.
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Ross, Steven M.; Rakow, Ernest A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
Subjects completed a self-paced lesson on math rules in which the number of supporting examples was adapted to pretest scores through program control, selected through learner control, or kept constant (nonadaptive). Program control means were consistently highest while learner control means were lowest. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Using Study Guides with Three Classifications of Secondary Students.
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Horton, Steven V.; Lovitt, Thomas C. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
Two studies were conducted to examine the effectiveness of using study guides with learning-disabled, remedial, and regular education students enrolled in secondary social studies and science classes. Results indicated that study guides, whether teacher-directed or student-directed, produced significantly higher performance than self-study.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Independent Study, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Life Cycle: Teacher Background Material [And] Life Cycle [And] Life Cycle: Test Form 7, A Sequential Curriculum in Anthropology, March 1969. Publications No. 49a, 49 and 49b.
Persing, Pauline K.; And Others – 1969
This document on the life cycle contains the 7th grade teacher background material, student activities component, and a unit test. The major objective of the unit is to encourage students to think critically about their own past and future through examination of how people in various cultures live. The teacher background component is presented in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Anthropology, Beliefs