NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Program for International…3
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 31 to 45 of 124 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wen, Yun – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2020
This paper presents an augmented reality-based Chinese character composition game (ARC) that employs augmented papers to engage lower primary school students in collaborative Chinese character learning. A design research approach was used to gain a holistic view of designing, enacting, and evaluating the ARC. The participants included four…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Chinese, Ideography, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Smith, David A. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Feedback on assessed work is invaluable to student learning, but there is a limit to the amount of feedback an instructor may provide. Peer feedback increases the volume of feedback possible, but potentially reduces the quality of the feedback. This research proposes a model of collaborative peer feedback designed to increase quality of peer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Models, Undergraduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Pang, Christopher; Lau, Jesslyn; Seah, Chong Poh; Cheong, Linda; Low, Audrey – Education Sciences, 2018
Using a grounded theory research design, this paper examined the collaborative learning experiences of secondary school students in Singapore. The core phenomenon that emerged was the need for social interactions in collaborative learning, both in classroom and online settings. Educators often take for granted that effective collaborative learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Cooperative Learning, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Bautista, Alfredo; Toh, Guo-Zheng; Mancenido, Zid-Niel; Wong, Joanne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This article responds to recent calls for situated examples of student-centered education. Our goal is to illustrate what student-centered pedagogies may look like in the music education classroom, particularly in the context of collaborative composition activities. The sample case presented features a Primary 5 Singaporean music teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Music Education, Music, Student Centered Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Boyd, Pete; Ash, Andy – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2018
South Asian approaches to teaching mathematics have been influential globally and are entangled with mastery approaches. This study investigates changing strategies and beliefs of Primary School teachers in England as they engage with a sustained curriculum development project. The teachers were working with a commercially available text book…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Mastery Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ge, Yun; Ho, K. C. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
This paper adopts a political economy perspective in understanding how the country context frames the development of higher education doctoral science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. We argue that a country's commitment to research and development spending as a strategy to maintain its economic competitiveness creates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tan, Charlene – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Among the challenges faced by educators in promoting critical thinking is that of cultural compatibility. Using Singapore as an illustrative case study, this paper explores the cultural challenges and recommended strategies for the teaching of critical thinking in schools. The research for this study is based on a theoretical framework that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Carter, Margaret Anne; Lundberg, Anita; Geerlings, Lennie R. C.; Bhati, Abhishek – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
The rapidly changing workforce of the C21st places increasing demands on higher education institutions to produce graduates who possess sound academic credentials and key skills, and who furthermore demonstrate the ability to transfer knowledge and skills from their studies to the workplace. This paper begins with a definition of key/core skills,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Transfer of Training, Employment Potential, College Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Walker, Zachary M.; Zheng, Toh Guo; Mendoza, Redante; Lee, Elise – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional pedagogy that has gained recent popularity due to its effectiveness in disciplines such as medicine and business. However, TBL has not been widely adopted in teacher education based on reviews of research and practitioner based literature. The purpose of this case study was to assess the implementation…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Inservice Teacher Education, Case Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Law, Lisa; Hafiz, Muhammad; Kwong, Theresa; Wong, Eva – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2019
With advances in telecommunication technologies, many institutions are deploying various online learning platforms for curriculum designers to create opportunities for international contact and intercultural exchange for their students with less physical and time constraints. Thus, students' learning contents can be enriched with the integration…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Online Courses
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Harding, Susan-Marie E.; Griffin, Patrick E.; Awwal, Nafisa; Alom, B. M. M.; Scoular, Claire – AERA Open, 2017
This study describes an online method of measuring individual students' collaborative problem-solving abilities using four interactive mathematics-based tasks, with students working in pairs. Process stream data were captured from 3,000 students who completed the tasks in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Singapore, and Finland.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Secondary School Mathematics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Toh, Tze Keong; Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Chai, Ching Sing – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2017
This article explores the use of a constructivist pedagogical approach to cultivate reflective dispositions during small group Bible study. Conducted in a local church Bible class setting (n = 12), the instructional design emulated the reflective thinking process, while adopting collaborative knowledge-building as its pedagogical framework.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Saito, Eisuke; Atencio, Matthew – Educational Review, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to discuss group learning in line with economic perspectives of embeddedness and integration emanating from the work of Karl Polanyi. Polanyi's work defines economy as a necessary interaction among human beings for survival; the economy is considered inextricably linked from broader society and social relations rather…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Economics, Educational Policy, Rewards
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tang, Kok-Sing; Tan, Seng-Chee – Classroom Discourse, 2017
The study in this article examines and illustrates the intertextual meanings made by a group of high school science students as they embarked on a knowledge building discourse to solve a physics problem. This study is situated in a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment designed to support student learning through a science…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Language Usage, Physics
Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Looi, Chee-Kit; Boticki, Ivica – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2017
Appropriate design of collaborative learning activities for students using mobile devices can be supported by different forms of scaffolding provided by peers, by the teacher or by the technology. Building on prior studies in mCSCL (mobile computer-supported collaborative learning), we developed Chinese-PP, a novel in-class mobile synchronous…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Chinese, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9