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Yilmaz, Ebru – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2016
Our mental maps related to the cities are limited by our personal perception and fragmented in the process. There are many inner and outer effects that shape our mental maps, and as a result the fragmented whole refers to the total city image in our minds. To represent this image, an experimental study has been conducted with a group of students.…
Descriptors: Design, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes, Maps
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Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi; Alqatnani, Alaeddin Khalid – TESOL Journal, 2019
This study examines the potential effect of a Thinking MapsĀ®--based treatment on the creative reading skills (viz., fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration) of Jordanian learners of English as a foreign language. The researchers drew a purposeful sample of two intact 10th-grade sections (N = 57) from a public school in Zarqa, Jordan.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Control Groups
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Andreeva, Nadezhda M.; Artyukhov, Ivan P.; Myagkova, Elena G.; Pak, Nikolay I.; Akkasynova, Zhamilya K. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The relevance of the problem of organizing blended learning for students is related to the sharpening contradiction between the high potential of this educational technology and the poor methodological elaboration of its use in actual learning practice. With regard to this, the paper is aimed at providing grounds for the methodological system of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Damekova, Saule Kairollovna; Zharkinbekov, Temirkhan Niyazovich; Turtkarayeva, Gulnara Bayanovna; Han, Sergey Inokenteevich; Damekov, Oral Zhangabylovich – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Strategic role of geographic information systems (GIS) for the geographical entity is not in doubt, but there are differences in the understanding of what, when and how to teach. The article presents some aspects of the GIS integration in school education in Kazakhstan. An analysis of the scientific and technical literature, teaching practice…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Learning Activities
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Richardson, R. Thomas; Sammons, Dotty; Del-Parte, Donna – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
This study compared learning performance during and following AR and non-AR topographic map instruction and practice Two-way ANOVA testing indicated no significant differences on a posttest assessment between map type and spatial ability. Prior learning activity results revealed a significant performance difference between AR and non-AR treatment…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Simulated Environment
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Neville, David O. – ReCALL, 2015
The article reports on a mixed-methods study evaluating the use of a three-dimensional digital game-based language learning (3D-DGBLL) environment to teach German two-way prepositions and specialized vocabulary within a simulated real-world context of German recycling and waste management systems. The study assumed that goal-directed player…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Games, Video Games, Computer Games
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Eftekhari, Maryam; Sotoudehnama, Elaheh; Marandi, S. Susan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Developing higher-order critical thinking skills as one of the central objectives of education has been recently facilitated via software packages. Whereas one such technology as computer-aided argument mapping is reported to enhance levels of critical thinking (van Gelder 2001), its application as a pedagogical tool in English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language)
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Jena, Ananta Kumar – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
This study deals with the application of constructivist approach through individual and cooperative modes of spider and hierarchical concept maps to achieve meaningful learning on science concepts (e.g. acids, bases & salts, physical and chemical changes). The main research questions were: Q (1): is there any difference in individual and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Scoring, Maps
Churches, Richard; McAleavy, Tony – CfBT Education Trust, 2015
This publication contains 12 (A3 open-out) poster-style reports of teacher experimental research. The style of presentation parallels the type of preliminary reporting common at academic conferences and postgraduate events. At the same time, it aims to act as a form of short primer to introduce teachers to the basic options that there are when…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries