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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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Muhammad, Amin Umar; Bala, Dauda; Ladu, Kolomi Mutah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study investigated the Effectiveness of Demonstration and Lecture Methods in Learning concepts in Economics among Secondary School Students in Borno state, Nigeria. Five objectives: to determine the effectiveness of demonstration method in learning economics concepts among secondary school students in Borno state, determine the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Demonstrations (Educational), Lecture Method
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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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Chiu, Chiung-Hui; Cheng, Hsiao-Wei; Wu, Chiu-Yi – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The authors examined whether applying questioning review better enhances elementary level students' learning from technology-enhanced coediting-based note taking than does traditional reading review. A nonequivalent comparison group quasi-experimental design was implemented and replicated on four independent units. Two sixth grade elementary…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students
Jang, Joo Dong – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Problem: The problem of this study was to determine the differences in achievement and attitudes toward learning among adult Sunday School classes in selected Korean churches taught with a traditional lecture method (LT), with the 4MAT instructional method (4M), and with an interactive engagement method (IE). Procedures: In this study, 109 adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biblical Literature, Religious Education, Comparative Analysis
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Gambari, Isiaka Amosa; Ezenwa, Victoria Ifeoma; Anyanwu, Romanus Chogozie – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2014
The study examined the effects of two modes of computer-assisted instructional package on solid geometry achievement amongst senior secondary school students in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Also, the influence of gender on the performance of students exposed to CAI(AT) and CAI(AN) packages were examined. This study adopted a pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, High School Seniors, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Olukayode, Ajitoni Sunday; Salako, Ekima Tina – World Journal of Education, 2014
The growing spate of ethno-religious crises and insurgency that characterizes Nigerian polity has been traced to inadequacies in the integration policies of the government. These situations have resulted in loss of several lives and unquantifiable psychological and material damages. However, the situations could improve through the use of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Pilli, Olga; Aksu, Meral – Computers & Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the educational software "Frizbi Mathematics 4" on 4th grade student's mathematics achievement, retention, attitudes toward mathematics and attitude toward computer assisted learning. Two groups (experimental and control) of students from the state primary school in Gazimagusa,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Lecture Method
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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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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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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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Araz, Gulsum; Sungur, Semra – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2007
This study aimed at comparing the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) and traditional lecture-based instruction on elementary school students' academic achievement and performance skills in a science unit on genetics while controlling for their reasoning ability. For the specified purpose, two instructional methods were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Textbooks, Academic Achievement, Problem Based Learning
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Roberts, M. Susan; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Examines how reading ability relates to course performance in an introductory developmental psychology course. Compares personalized system of instruction (PSI) to contingency managed lecture (CML) sections. Shows previous academic performance best predicted final examination scores for CML students while reading comprehension best predicted PSI…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Root, Jon R.; Gall, Meredith D. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine whether conventional instruction and mastery-based auto-tutorial instruction interacted with learning characteristics that were found to be instruction-interactive in previous research. Conventional instruction consisted of lecture with discussion and laboratory periods. The mastery-based auto-tutorial…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Style, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis