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Andy Ding-Xuan Ng; Aloysius Ong; Alwyn Vwen Yen Lee; Chew Lee Teo – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Research and development of Learning Analytics (LA) have created new ways to support students' learning. However, our understanding of teachers' roles when implementing LA in classroom practices remains nascent. This study investigates how teachers can implement LA to support students' agency in directing their own inquiry, when engaging in a…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Kazu, Ibrahim Yasar; Kurtoglu, Cemre – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
Research of flipped classroom can be carried out in such dimensions as teacher, school manager, parents and students. This present research is aimed to investigate the secondary school students' flipped classroom readiness. The survey method was applied in this descriptive study. 'A Scale for Flipped Classroom Readiness of Secondary School…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, Learning Readiness
Xie, Zhuodan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
Autonomous learning materials play a vital role in developing students' autonomy. By providing students with appropriate autonomous learning materials to meet their self-diagnosis learning needs, this can effectively improve students' academic performance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, students' learning changed from offline to online. However, in…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
Huh, Keun; Lee, Jeongyi – TESOL Journal, 2020
Teachers are faced with the demand to teach their students to be competent individuals in the 21st century so that they are prepared for any challenges they may face in their lives. To meet this need, many educators have identified creativity as a necessary competence of the 21st century. To this end, integrating SMART (Self-directed, Motivated,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, 21st Century Skills, Second Language Learning
Palaigeorgiou, George; Papadopoulou, Anthea – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Studies show that interactive educational video can reduce cognitive overload, guide viewers' attention, and trigger reflection; moreover, tablets can help students to increase self-directed learning, take ownership of the learning process, and collaborate with one another. In this study, we examine whether interactive video together with tablets…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Pretests Posttests
Nieto Moreno de Diezmas, Esther; Dondarza Manzano, Pablo – Digital Education Review, 2016
In this paper the experience of learners during the first phase of the PIPLEP project is explored. PIPLEP is aimed at promoting digital literacy and independent learning with the creation of personal learning environments (PLEs) as the final product. The participants were a group of 17 students enrolled in year 5 of primary school, and the main…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Technological Literacy, Independent Study, Student Attitudes
Olsen, Jennifer K.; Rummel, Nikol; Aleven, Vincent – Grantee Submission, 2017
Collaborative and individual learning are both frequently used in classrooms to support learning. However, little research has investigated the benefits of combining individual and collaborative learning, as compared to learning only individually or only collaboratively. With our study, we address this research gap. We compared a combined…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Kuo, Ya-Hui – Online Submission, 2010
While there have been many articles published in the area of self-regulated learning, there is a need to have a research article that solely emphasizes on how to put self-regulated learning theory into practice. In order to help teachers incorporate self-regulated learning theory into their classroom teaching and students to do so into their…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Teachers
Allal, Linda – Research Papers in Education, 2011
Since pedagogy is a key term in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) principles, it is of interest to examine the evolution of the concept of pedagogy in the French-language world of education, as well as the emergence of a new field of research called "didactics". Work on situated cognition provides a framework for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instruction, French, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
French, Lisa R.; Walker, Cheryl L.; Shore, Bruce M. – Roeper Review, 2011
Gifted students' preference to work alone is widely espoused, but studies vary widely in their explanations. We re-examined this notion in terms of motivation and social constructivism among 247 school-identified gifted and high-achieving and regular-education students in Grades 4 through 12. Survey data assessed learning style, interests,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted
Azer, Samy A. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
This study examined the effects of students' characteristics (gender, age, and first-language spoken at home) on their perceptions about problem-based learning (PBL). The study revealed that students from the fifth, sixth and seventh grades perceived PBL in a positive way but there were significant differences between the grades. The resources…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Characteristics
Hakkarainen, Olavi; Ahtee, Maija – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2007
This study concerns the question of how teachers can help pupils to perceive the concept of weight (gravitation). Fifth and ninth graders were asked in a paper-and-pencil test to compare the weight of two objects suspended in a pulley-in-balance half a year after the learning intervention consisting of three successive pulley-in-balance…
Descriptors: Intervention, Independent Study, Teacher Role, Grade 9
Danzi, Jamie; Reul, Kelly; Smith, Rana – Online Submission, 2008
This action research project report summarizes the methods used to reduce boredom and frustration and increase students' academic motivation in three mixed-ability classrooms. This action research project included 21 third grade students, 23 fifth grade students, and 28 eighth grade students (n=72) during the dates of September 10, 2007, through…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Assignments, Multiple Intelligences, Student Attitudes