With the growing digitalization, there has been increasing demand in companies for a skilled workforce to sustain in a competitive business environment. Although the traditional education system serves as a good source of knowledge, they have been consistently proven to lack emphasis on the overall development of students. Therefore, in recent…

Environmental literacy is indicated as one element of learning that is able to solve environmental problems. However, the extent to which the environmental literacy component is embedded in various levels of education has not been revealed much. This study aims to determine the environmental literacy of students in several countries, starting from…

Choi and Clark (2006) argue that learning is attributed to the instructional method rather than the specific medium used to deliver instruction (i.e., the pedagogical agent). Additionally, they consider pedagogical agents as unnecessarily expensive tools, whose instructional affordances can be replicated by less expensive options. In this response…

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

Examines the effectiveness of instructional support provided in three treatments for sixth grade children interpreting metaphor in poetry. (HOD)

Describes a study in which engineering students who were shown accompanying slides during lecture scored significantly higher on a subsequent quiz than a control section. (MLH)

Grade level, developer, distributor, cost, and a brief description are given for approximately 150 R&D based, validated, teacher inservice products. Materials are included from the areas of teacher assessment of student growth, bilingual education, career education, classroom management, early childhood education, English language arts,…

This investigation compared time-compressed lectures with lectures taped at a normal word rate and examined the direct application of compressed lectures to the educational process. Participants in this study, 87 college students enrolled in Botany 100, were randomly assigned to four groups--one control group and three treatment groups. The…

An experiment was conducted in a preservice teacher education course in materials for teaching at the East Tennessee State University to determine whether or not students would gain more cognitive information while developing psychomotor skills when using self-instructional techniques as compared with those students using a traditional…

Investigates the possibility of using audio-tapes for self-study courses in technical colleges. This article presents: (1) description of the electrochemistry course taught; (2) results of the assessment of student reaction to the course; and (3) conclusions. (HM)

Compares student achievement in an upper-division college introductory course taught by the video-autotutorial method with that in two comparable courses taught by the lecture-discussion method. Pre-post tests of 623 students reveal that video-autotutorial students outperform lecture/discussion participants at all ability levels and that in…