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Honebein, Peter C.; Honebein, Cass H. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
When choosing instructional methods, instructional designers trade-off or sacrifice an outcome, such as effectiveness, efficiency, or appeal. In instructional planning theory, this is referred to as values about priorities. When "values about priorities" are combined with "conditions about content," we expect that a different…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods
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Beck, Leland; Chizhik, Alexander – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
Cooperative learning is a well-known instructional technique that has been applied with a wide variety of subject matter and a broad spectrum of populations. This article briefly reviews the principles of cooperative learning, and describes how these principles were incorporated into a comprehensive set of cooperative learning activities for a CS1…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages
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Cromley, Jennifer G.; Perez, Tony C.; Fitzhugh, Shannon L.; Newcombe, Nora S.; Wills, Theodore W.; Tanaka, Jacqueline C. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
The authors tested whether students can be taught to better understand conventional representations in diagrams, photographs, and other visual representations in science textbooks. The authors developed a teacher-delivered, workbook-and-discussion-based classroom instructional method called Conventions of Diagrams (COD). The authors trained 1…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Textbooks, Biology, Grade 10
Mitchell-White, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Continued improvement of the training and preparation of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents is critical to the organization's ability to protect the national security of the United States. Too little attention has been paid to the factors that improve new agent trainees' (NATs) ability to learn and succeed in their training…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, National Security, Problem Based Learning, Program Effectiveness
Sturges, Linda W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study investigated the extent to which providing students with individualized performance feedback informed and directed their learning behavior. Individualized performance feedback was delivered to students using curriculum-based measurement progress indicators, either as a visual representation of ongoing performance in the form of a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Study Habits, Curriculum Based Assessment, Self Efficacy
Schroth, Stepen T.; Helfer, Jason A. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2008
Issues regarding the identification of gifted students have perplexed the field almost since its inception. How one identifies gifted students has tremendous ramifications for a gifted education program's size, curriculum, instructional methods, and administration. Little is known, however, regarding educator beliefs regarding gifted…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Standardized Tests, Identification, Teaching Methods