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Assessing Clicker Examples versus Board Examples in Calculus
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Roth, Kimberly A. – PRIMUS, 2012
The combination of classroom voting system (clicker) questions and peer instruction has been shown to increase student learning. While implementations in large lectures have been around for a while, mathematics has been increasingly using clickers in classes of a smaller size. In Fall 2008, I conducted an experiment to measure the effect of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Calculus, Handheld Devices, Classroom Environment
From Joint Experimentation to Laissez-Faire: Transdisciplinary Innovation Research for the Institutional Strengthening of a Water Users Association in Khorezm, Uzbekistan
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Djanibekov, Nodir; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Ul-Hassan, Mehmood – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: This article assesses a participatory action and innovation research experience, in which project researchers, farmers and staff members of a local water users association (WUA) came together to: (a) jointly test and adapt a social mobilization and institutional strengthening approach according to the local context, and by doing so, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Water, Organizations (Groups)
Computers and the Academic Performance of Elementary School-Aged Girls in China's Poor Communities
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Yang, Yihua; Zhang, Linxiu; Zeng, Junxia; Pang, Xiaopeng; Lai, Fang; Rozelle, Scott – Computers & Education, 2013
Experts agree that computers and computing play an important role in education. Since the 1980s there has been a debate about gender as it relates to computers and education. However, results regarding gender differences concerning computer use in education are not consistent. In particular there is little work done in China on this issue.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers
Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia. NBER Working Paper No. 17892
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Olken, Benjamin A.; Onishi, Junko; Wong, Susan – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Incentives, Rural Areas
Centralization and Experimentation in the Implementation of a National Monitoring and Evaluation System: The Experience of Malawi.
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Useem, Michael; Chipande, Graham – Evaluation Review, 1991
To identify general principles of implementing a system of evaluation, the experience of Malawi in building a national system for agriculture is described. Applying principles of both centralization and decentralization and principles of trial and error has helped translate theories of evaluation into practice in Malawi. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Centralization, Decentralization, Developing Nations
Cycles of Garden Life and Plant Life: A Series of Projects in Nature Study for Elementary Schools. Bulletin, 1925, No. 15
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Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The Bureau of Education developed this course of study, published as a bulletin, reflecting increased interest of the movement for out-door education and in response to a request to the Bureau from the General Federation of Women's Clubs. It will be of value in promoting a type of study much needed in schools, and it will offer to the primary and…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Botany, Plants (Botany), Gardening