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den Otter, Marie-Jetta; Dam, Michiel; Juurlink, Ludo B. F.; Janssen, Fred – Education Sciences, 2021
Structure-property reasoning (SPR) is one of the most important aims of chemistry education but is seldom explicitly taught, and students find structure-property reasoning difficult. This study assessed two design principles for the development of structure-property reasoning in the context of demonstrations: (1) use of a POE task…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Demonstrations (Educational), Logical Thinking, Instructional Design
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Stoel, Gerhard L.; van Drie, Jannet P.; van Boxtel, Carla A. M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
This article reports an experimental study on the effects of explicit teaching on 11th grade students' ability to reason causally in history. Underpinned by the model of domain learning, explicit teaching is conceptualized as multidimensional, focusing on strategies and second-order concepts to generate and verbalize causal explanations and…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Grade 11, Instructional Effectiveness, History Instruction
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van der Graaf, Joep; van de Sande, Eva; Gijsel, Martine; Segers, Eliane – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Inquiry-based lessons have been demonstrated to improve children's scientific thinking (i.e. reasoning abilities and domain-specific knowledge). Although empirical evidence shows that inquiry-based learning requires instruction, research comes from two approaches that have not been bridged yet: direct instruction of scientific reasoning and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Direct Instruction, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Blik, H.; Harskamp, E. G.; Naayer, H. M. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2016
In the Netherlands, students with intellectual disabilities (ID) attend practical education (PE). Teachers generally use demonstration as a form of direct instruction (DI) and students have difficulty working independently. Strategy instruction (SI) is a question-answer-based method that stimulates students' autonomy by getting them to verbalize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Stes, Ann; Van Petegem, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Teaching approaches in higher education have already been the subject of a considerable body of research. An important contribution was Prosser and Trigwell's development of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory (ATI). The present study aims to map out the approaches to teaching profiles of teachers in higher education on the basis of their scores…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Profiles, Educational Strategies
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Snel, M. J.; Terwel, J.; Aarnoutse, C. A. J.; van Leeuwe, J. F. J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
In a field experiment with 178 first-grade pupils, the effects of an experimental beginning reading programme were investigated. Both an experimental and a control group worked with the most frequently used Dutch beginning reading programme, "Learning to Read Safely." The instructional approach implemented in the experimental group was…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Beginning Reading