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Fred Awaah – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to present a step-by-step implementation of the culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in a university classroom to teach industry and competitive analysis in the Ghanaian undergraduate entrepreneurship development curriculum. It further investigates the efficacy of the CTCA in breaking difficulties related to the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Study, Cultural Context
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Olelewe, Chijioke Jonathan; Dong, Chunli; Abdullahim, Mohammed; Nwangwu, Chinweike Emmanuel – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2023
This study determined the efficacy of the video-clip lecture strategy in enhancing computer science (CS) students' performance in a computer networking course at universities in Gombe state, Nigeria. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent groups of intact classes. Study participants were 136 CS third-year students made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Video Technology, Lecture Method
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Adams, Caleb; Dove, Anthony – PRIMUS, 2018
This assessment study examined one potential instructional method for improving student learning in Calculus for majors, flipped learning, in comparison with traditional lecture-based instruction. Results suggest that participation in flipped learning substantially improved growth in achievement over the semester, final exam grades, and final…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Özer, Selda – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2020
The aim of the study was to determine the effect of active learning techniques applied in Vocational English Course on students' achievement and attitude. In the research, quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test control group model was used. The participants included the students majoring Tourism Management at a state university in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Poetry, Concept Mapping
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Demir, Kadir; Akpinar, Ercan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
This study examines the effect of mobile learning applications on undergraduate students' academic achievement, attitudes toward mobile learning and animation development levels. Quasi-experimental design was used in the study. Participants of the study were students of the Buca Faculty of Education at Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Osman, Kamisah; Kaur, Simranjeet Judge – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
Students' achievement in Biology is often looked up as a benchmark to evaluate the mode of teaching and learning in higher education. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an approach that focuses on students' solving a problem through collaborative groups. There were eighty samples involved in this study. The samples were divided into three groups: ICT…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Achievement, Problem Based Learning, Technology Integration
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Winquist, Jennifer R.; Carlson, Keith A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
In this paper, we compare an introductory statistics course taught using a flipped classroom approach to the same course taught using a traditional lecture based approach. In the lecture course, students listened to lecture, took notes, and completed homework assignments. In the flipped course, students read relatively simple chapters and answered…
Descriptors: Statistics, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Pan, Ching-Ying; Wu, Hui-Yi – English Language Teaching, 2013
This experimental study aims to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning to enhance the English reading comprehension and learning motivation of EFL freshmen by comparing the cooperative learning instruction and traditional lecture instruction. This experiment was implemented in a Freshman English Reading course, a two credit course,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Tsaushu, Masha; Tal, Tali; Sagy, Ornit; Kali, Yael; Gepstein, Shimon; Zilberstein, Dan – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
This study offers an innovative and sustainable instructional model for an introductory undergraduate course. The model was gradually implemented during 3 yr in a research university in a large-lecture biology course that enrolled biology majors and nonmajors. It gives priority to sources not used enough to enhance active learning in higher…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Active Learning, Biology, Constructivism (Learning)
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Hossainy, Fakhrozaman Naeemi; Zare, Hossein; Hormozi, Mahmud; Shaghaghi, Farhad; Kaveh, Mohamad Hossain – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Inability to use knowledge is one of the major problems that university graduates face. Some instructional designers recommend situated learning for the solution. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of situated learning on students' school motivation and achievement. The two main hypotheses are: 1- Situated learning increases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Instructional Design, Simulation
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Singaravelu, G. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2008
The present study illuminates the efficacy of self-regulated learning in learning psychology at Master of Education level in Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Experimental method was adopted for the study. Qualitative and quantitative approach was adopted in the study. Twenty seven students were studying at M.Ed in Bharathiar University were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Learning Strategies, Graduate Students
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Narli, Serkan; Baser, Nes'e – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2008
Infinity has contradictions arising from its nature. Since mind is actually adapted to finite realities attained by behaviors in space and time, when one starts to deal with real infinity, contradictions will arise. In particular, Cantorian Set Theory, for it involves the notion of "equivalence of a set to one of its proper subsets," causes…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Active Learning, Mathematics Teachers, Topology
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Rodger, Susan; Murray, Harry G.; Cummings, Anne L. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
A laboratory experiment was carried out with 120 undergraduate students to examine a possible aptitude-treatment interaction between teacher clarity and student test anxiety in relation to two outcome measures, namely student achievement and student motivation, with student intelligence statistically controlled. Students completed measures of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Motivation, Interaction