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García, María Aguilar; Losada, Noela Rodríguez – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
Nowadays, Augmented and VR in teaching disciplines such as Human Anatomy has made it feasible to promote learning through a gamification process that allows the development of teaching-learning proposals that improve students' motivation significant learning and not merely memoirist. This new practice moves away from the traditional methods used…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preservice Teachers
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Vergara, Diego; Fernández, María Luz; Lorenzo, Miguel – Education Sciences, 2019
In this paper, a teaching experience carried out within the framework of the subject of mathematics is presented. This subject is taught at several levels in secondary schools. In addition to some specific content related with mathematics (percentages, fractions, graphics, and bank interest), the methodology is designed in order to enhance the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Mathematics
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Termes López, Andreu – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
One of the most universally recognized mechanisms in the sociology of education is the Pygmalion effect: the expectations and prejudices of teachers (from a position of power), projected onto the students, have the potential to become a self-fulfilled prophecy--either positive either stigmatizing. But what elements are used to build these…
Descriptors: Social Distance, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Expectations of Students, Immigrants
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Savall-Alemany, Francisco; Domènech-Blanco, Josep Lluís; Guisasola, Jenaro; Martínez-Torregrosa, Joaquín – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Our study sets out to identify the difficulties that high school students, teachers, and university students encounter when trying to explain atomic spectra. To do so, we identify the key concepts that any quantum model for the emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation must include to account for the gas spectra and we then design two…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Questionnaires, Models
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D'Elia, Luis Alberto; Wishart, Diane – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
The purpose of this work was to elicit the perceptions of science educators regarding enhancing opportunities to retain disenfranchised students in secondary schools. The article shows selective international perspectives on how teachers, university professors, and researchers in teacher education programs strive to support school completion for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Academic Persistence
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Simonovits, Reinhard; McElroy, Jim; O'Loughlin, James; Townsend, Colin – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2013
The overall aim of the project is to allow for the collaboration of high school students of different European countries on small, selected maths topics. This involves the use of technology, student mobility and English language competency. Benefits are also expected to accrue to teachers of mathematics by providing the opportunity to work with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning
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Azevedo, Carolina V. M.; Sousa, Ivanise; Paul, Ketema; MacLeish, Marlene Y.; Mondejar, Ma Teresa; Sarabia, Juan Antonio; Rol, M. Angeles; Madrid, Juan Antonio – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2008
Early morning school schedules are in the opposite direction to the sleep-wake cycle in adolescence and early adulthood. This conflict leads to sleep deprivation and irregular patterns whose consequences are scarcely explored. This article discusses the effects of three educational experiences with high school students, parents, teachers, and…
Descriptors: Medical Students, School Schedules, Sleep, Foreign Countries