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Cooper, Darren; Higgins, Steve; Beckmann, Nadin – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2017
Online instructional videos are becoming increasingly common within education. This study adopts a quasi-experimental 2 × 2 crossover design (control and experimental groups) to evaluate the efficacy of instructional videos to teach practical rehabilitation skills. The students performed practical sessions in class and were formatively assessed by…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Supplementary Education
Almutairi, Mashal – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The main purpose of this research was to survey the literature about the U.S. education system and synthesize the important conclusions that could be identified as the main features of the education system in general as they relate to student achievement. The criteria were set and the meta-analysis procedures were carefully followed. This process…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Meta Analysis, Regression (Statistics)
Durkin, Kelley – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Most people would agree that helping students learn new information is important; however, there are numerous methods for achieving this goal, and not all of them have been proven to be effective. One method with intuitive appeal and some empirical backing is prompting students to self-explain. A self-explanation can be defined as generating…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Meta Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
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Bates Prins, Samantha C. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
This paper provides an example of how student-centered instruction can be used in a theoretical statistics class. The author taught a two-semester undergraduate probability and mathematical statistics sequence using primarily teacher-centered instruction in the first semester and primarily student-centered instruction in the second semester. A…
Descriptors: Class Size, Statistics, Probability, Student Centered Curriculum