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Briseño-Miranda, César; Guzmán-Hernández, José – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
In this paper we report the results obtained when implementing Activities related to the visualization of geometric representations in paper-and-pencil and technological environments with students1 grade 11. This is a qualitative research supported by both the representation theory and the visualization of mathematical objects using technological…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Visualization, Geometric Concepts, Qualitative Research
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Gidena, Asay; Gebeyehu, Desta – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the advance organiser model (AOM) on students' academic achievement in learning work and energy. The design of the study was quasi-experimental pretest-posttest nonequivalent control groups. The total population of the study was 139 students of three sections in Endabaguna…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Energy, Models, Advance Organizers
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Morales, Daniel Morales; Bettencourt, Genia M.; Green, Keisha; George Mwangi, Chrystal A. – Educational Forum, 2017
Through a yearlong, qualitative ethnographic study that incorporated a youth participatory action research project, this research identifies and documents the learning outcomes achieved when core principles of critical pedagogy are brought into practice with urban Latinx youths to develop critical awareness. Analysis reveals three themes around…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Susannah Walker; Gustavo Carrera – History Teacher, 2017
For a long time, Advanced Placement and other advanced-level U.S. history courses at the high school level were modeled after the collegiate survey course. However, the last two decades or more have seen some significant changes in the teaching of U.S. history at undergraduate and high school levels. Many of these changes at the high school level…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Introductory Courses
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Quintero Corzo, Josefina; Lopera Lopera, Catherine Julieth – International Education Studies, 2016
This piece of work gives account of a classroom research project done in a rural state institution in Colombia whose main purpose was to contextualize the foreign languages teaching and learning in line with the current curriculum regulations stated by the National Ministry of Education. Content-based instruction inside a rural English classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Brown, Alexis Carmela – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2016
Literacy and language development is a central aspect of educational theory and practice. One area of literacy and language research that has had a lot of attention is dialogic teaching (Bakhtin, 1984; Freire, 1970; Murphey, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Reznitskaya & Gregory, 2013). However, there is limited research on…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology
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Figueiredo, M.; Esteves, L.; Neves, J.; Vicente, H. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
This study reports the use of data mining tools in order to examine the influence of the methodology used in chemistry lab classes, on the weight attributed by the students to the lab work on learning and own motivation. The answer frequency analysis was unable to discriminate the opinions expressed by the respondents according to the type of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Gurl, Theresa J.; Fox, Ryan; Dabovic, Nikolina; Leavitt, Arielle Eager – Mathematics Teacher, 2016
The implementation of the Common Core's Standards for Mathematical Practice can pose a challenge to all teachers of mathematics but especially to preservice teachers. These standards require teaching in a way that often differs from what preservice teachers have experienced as learners. Standard 1--"Make sense of problems and persevere in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Experience
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McConn, Matthew – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2014
Many times students are directed to make a personal connection to literature without being guided toward how their connection works interdependently with the structure of the narrative to create a greater meaning, much less directed toward how this connection can hold meaning for their own lives. Through student samples, this article attempts to…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Reader Text Relationship, Teaching Methods, Literature
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Abrams, Sandra Schamroth; Walsh, Sara – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
This article explores the ways "gamification" can play a role in adolescents' development of vocabulary. Gamification involves the application of game-design thinking and play elements to non-game activities, such as routine homework or classroom lessons. Drawing upon data from in-school and after-school settings, the authors…
Descriptors: Games, Design, Play, Adolescents
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Bikner-Ahsbahs, Angelika – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This paper presents an intervention study in three 11th grade classes on calculus with the aim to overcome the students' amotivation by boosting their situational interest. This was successfully done by teachers implementing interest-dense situations. Data analyses further revealed two different principles of how the teachers transferred the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, High School Students, Grade 11, Learning Motivation
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Korsun, Igor – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2017
This study is aimed at creating a general technique for the formation of learners' interest in physics in the context of sustainable development of education. The active means of training and active learning methods are the components of this technique. The sequence of interest formation for physics in the context of sustainable development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Instruction, Sustainable Development
Cameron, Scott; Ball, Lynda – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
This paper reports on a study of choices about the use of a computer algebra system (CAS) or pen-and-paper (p&p) by a class of seven Year 11 Mathematical Methods (CAS) students as they completed a calculus worksheet. Factors that influenced students' choices are highlighted by comparing and contrasting the use of CAS and p&p between…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics
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Sen, Senol; Yilmaz, Ayhan; Geban, Ömer – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) method compared to traditional teaching method on 11th grade students' conceptual understanding of electrochemistry concepts. Participants were 115 students from a public school in Turkey. Nonequivalent control group design was used. Two…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction, Grade 11
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Boohan, Richard – School Science Review, 2016
"The Language of Mathematics in Science" is an ASE/Nuffield project aimed at supporting teachers of 11-16 science in the use of mathematical ideas in the science curriculum. Two publications have been produced. This article focuses on the first of these, "The Language of Mathematics in Science: A Guide for Teachers of 11-16…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Science Curriculum
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