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Download full textBilgin, Nevruz; Dalkiran, Oguzhan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of the research was to investigate the effects of sports education model and direct teaching model on the attitudes of the students, and the differences among the attitudes of students. The study group of the research included 29 students from 6th and 7th grade of a secondary school in the 2015-2016 academic years. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Student Attitudes
What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
"Spelling Mastery" is designed to explicitly teach spelling skills to students in grades 1 through 6. One of several Direct Instruction curricula from McGraw-Hill that precisely specify how to teach incremental content, "Spelling Mastery" includes phonemic, morphemic, and whole-word strategies. The What Works Clearinghouse…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Elementary School Students, Direct Instruction
Direct linkErbas, Ayhan Kursat; Yenmez, Arzu Aydogan – Computers & Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using a dynamic geometry environment (DGE) together with inquiry-based explorations on the sixth grade students' achievements in polygons and congruency and similarity of polygons. Two groups of sixth grade students were selected for this study: an experimental group composed of 66…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Females
Porter, Dianna; Weaver, Andrew J.; Raptis, Helen – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Students from three different British Columbia grade six classes were followed through two weeks of instruction on climate change. Pre, post, and follow-up surveys were used to determine the differences in knowledge gained and retained by students that received direct instruction from their science teacher, and by those who received equivalent…
Descriptors: Climate, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Control Groups
Caliskan, Muhittin; Sunbul, Ali Murat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
This study investigated the effects of learning strategies instruction on metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive skills, and achievement. An experimental pre-test/post-test control group design was used in the research. The study was conducted in the 2008-2009 school year on 6th grade students at Orgeneral Tural and Dikmeli Primary Schools located…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Test Results, Primary Education
Littlefield, Amy Root – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research on early adolescence reveals significant declines in intrinsic motivation for reading and points out the need for metacognitive strategy use among middle school students. Research indicates that explicit instruction involving motivation and metacognitive support for reading strategy use in the context of a discipline is an efficient and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Teaching Methods, African American Students, Social Studies
Haystead, Mark W. – Marzano Research Laboratory, 2009
This report describes the findings of an analysis of a series of action research projects conducted by Goshen Community Schools at the middle school level. During the 2008-2009 school year, six teachers at Goshen Middle School participated in independent action research studies regarding the extent to which a six step approach to direct vocabulary…
Descriptors: Action Research, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Direct Instruction
