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How to Flip the Classroom--"Productive Failure or Traditional Flipped Classroom" Pedagogical Design?
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Song, Yanjie; Kapur, Manu – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The paper reports a quasi-experimental study comparing the "traditional flipped classroom" pedagogical design with the "productive failure" (Kapur, 2016) pedagogical design in the flipped classroom for a 2-week curricular unit on polynomials in a Hong Kong Secondary school. Different from the flipped classroom where students…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
Mobile Immersion: An Experiment Using Mobile Instant Messenger to Support Second-Language Learning
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Lai, Arthur – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Immersion has been an acclaimed approach for second-language acquisition, but is not available to most students. The idea of this study was to create a mobile immersion environment on a smartphone using a mobile instant messenger, WhatsApp™. Forty-five Form-1 (7th grade) students divided into the Mobile Group and Control Group participated in a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
Learning about the Types of Plastic Wastes: Effectiveness of Inquiry Learning Strategies
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So, Wing-Mui Winnie; Cheng, Nga-Yee Irene; Chow, Cheuk-Fai; Zhan, Ying – Education 3-13, 2016
This study aims to examine the impacts of the inquiry learning strategies employed in a "Plastic Education Project" on primary students' knowledge, beliefs and intended behaviour in Hong Kong. Student questionnaires and a test on plastic types were adopted for data collection. Results reveal that the inquiry learning strategies…
Descriptors: Plastics, Wastes, Inquiry, Learning Strategies
A Glimpse into the Effectiveness of L2-Content Cross-Curricular Collaboration in Content-Based Instruction Programmes
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Lo, Yuen Yi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
In content-based instruction (CBI) programmes, students learn content subjects through a second language (L2), so that they can incidentally learn the language. To further facilitate students' L2 development, the collaboration between L2 and content subject teachers has been strongly advocated. Previous research on such kind of collaboration…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Addressing Multidimensional Perfectionism in Gifted Adolescents with Affective Curriculum
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Mofield, Emily Lynne; Chakraborti-Ghosh, Sumita – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2010
This study investigated the effects of an affective curriculum on multiple dimensions of perfectionism among middle school (grades 6-8) gifted students. A quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design was employed; all participants (N = 153) completed pre- and posttests of the Goals and Work Habits Survey. The experimental group received…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Academically Gifted, Grade 6
Individual to Collaborative: Guided Group Work and the Role of Teachers in Junior Secondary Science Classrooms
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Fung, Dennis; Lui, Wai-mei – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This paper, through discussion of a teaching intervention at two secondary schools in Hong Kong, demonstrates the learning advancement brought about by group work and dissects the facilitating role of teachers in collaborative discussions. One-hundred and fifty-two Secondary Two (Grade 8) students were divided into three pedagogical groups, namely…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Science Instruction, Science Education, Group Activities