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Use of Digital Game Based Learning and Gamification in Secondary School Science: The Effect on Student Engagement, Learning and Gender Difference
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Khan, Amna; Ahmad, Farzana Hayat; Malik, Muhammad Muddassir – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This study aimed to identify the impact of a game based learning (GBL) application using computer technologies on student engagement in secondary school science classrooms. The literature reveals that conventional Science teaching techniques (teacher-centered lecture and teaching), which foster rote learning among students, are one of the major…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Instructional Design, Gender Differences
Making Sense of Cluster Analysis: Revelations from Pakistani Science Classes
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Pell, Tony; Hargreaves, Linda – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
Cluster analysis has been applied to quantitative data in educational research over several decades and has been a feature of the Maurice Galton's research in primary and secondary classrooms. It has offered potentially useful insights for teaching yet its implications for practice are rarely implemented. It has been subject also to negative…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Multivariate Analysis, Teaching Methods, Research Methodology
Introducing Science Experiments to Rote-Learning Classes in Pakistani Middle Schools
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Pell, Anthony William; Iqbal, Hafiz Muhammad; Sohail, Shahida – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2010
A mixed-methods sequential research design has been used to test the effect of introducing teacher science demonstrations to a traditional book-learning sample of 384 Grade 7 boys and girls from five schools in Lahore, Pakistan. In the quasi-experimental quantitative study, the eight classes of comparable ability were designated either…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Science Instruction
Enhancing the Experience of Student Teams in Large Classes: Training Teaching Assistants to Be Coaches
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Sargent, Leisa D.; Allen, Belinda C.; Frahm, Jennifer A.; Morris, Gayle – Journal of Management Education, 2009
To address the increasing demand for mass undergraduate management education and, at the same time, a greater emphasis on student teamwork, this study outlines the development, delivery, and evaluation of a training intervention designed to build team-coaching skills in teaching assistants. Specifically, "practice-centered" and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Class Size, Teaching Assistants, Teacher Role