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Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2020
As the number of international students enrolled in North American universities continues to rise it is important that all instructors gain a more complete understanding of some of the issues that students face when they come to university. This article focuses on only one area, how students cope when learning how to write an academic essay, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Writing Processes, Foreign Students, College Freshmen
Vanessa Hinton; Anna Gibbs; Toni Franklin – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2020
Children with cognitive delays or developmental disabilities are at elevated risk of having a persistent mathematics disability. Students who have difficulty in mathematics display trouble with awareness of numbers and numeric concepts. This is alarming because students who display lower mathematics performance early on in school make smaller…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Direct Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Hernandez, Hjalmar Punla – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
Second Language Acquisition (SLA), as a sub-discipline in applied linguistics, is rapidly growing and changing (Ellis & Shintani, 2014). As such, it has yielded stirring issues on both naturalistic and instructed settings causing reviews and/or investigations by language researchers. This paper accordingly serves as a humble attempt at…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literature Reviews
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Rees, R.; Fitzpatrick, C.; Foulkes, J.; Peterson, H.; Newton, C. – Deafness & Education International, 2017
When identifying phonemes in new spoken words, lipreading is an important source of information for many deaf people. Because many groups of phonemes are virtually indistinguishable by sight, deaf people are able to identify about 30% of phonemes when lipreading non-words. Cued speech (CS) is a system of hand shapes and hand positions used…
Descriptors: Cued Speech, Phonemes, Lipreading, Adults
Ondrey, Zella L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Grounded in the theoretical framework of Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance and the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Theory, this dissertation sought to (a) examine the relationship between the three components of teaching presence and student satisfaction, (b) determine which component of teaching presence is most closely associated with student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teacher Role, Student Satisfaction, Online Courses
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Ok, Min Wook; Haggerty, Natalie; Whaley, Angeline – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
This single case design study examined the effects of video modeling (VM) using an augmented reality iPad application on improving phonics skills of first-grade students who struggle with reading. Results indicated that all students made significant growth in their phonics performance and maintained the intervention gains for 5 weeks following the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Instruction, Direct Instruction, Video Technology
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Manassero-Mas, María-Antonia; Vázquez-Alonso, Ángel – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2021
Nature of science (NOS) is a key component of scientific literacy, so science teacher education on NOS is critical to ensure students' scientific literacy. According to mainstream NOS literature, explicit and reflective interventions are recommended to effectively teach NOS. This paper presents an experience for the initial education of secondary…
Descriptors: Science Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students, Young Adults
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Heron-Hruby, Alison; Trent, Brandie; Haas, Samantha; Allen, Zachary Cole – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Discussion is a well-known tool for promoting reading comprehension in secondary-level English classes for students at all levels of reading skill, especially when the discussion promotes argumentation. However, researchers know little about how struggling readers use discussion, mainly because low-track English classes have tended to focus on…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Group Discussion, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Collins, Belva C.; Lo, Ya-yu; Park, Gwitaek; Haughney, Kathryn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2018
Response-prompting procedures are a form of systematic direct instruction based on the principles of ABA. Researchers have identified six specific and distinct response-prompting procedures for teaching both academic and functional skills: (1) graduated guidance; (2) most-to-least prompting; (3) system of least prompts; (4) progressive time delay;…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Prompting, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Carrabba, Colette; Farmer, Aarek – Online Submission, 2018
This quantitative study sought to compare the levels of motivation and engagement for middle school students before and after the implementation of both project-based learning and direct instruction. Student participants completed the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory [IMI] (Deci & Ryan, 2017) to assess their levels of motivation prior to and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Direct Instruction, Student Motivation
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Kapur, Manu – Educational Psychologist, 2016
Learning and performance are not always commensurable. Conditions that maximize performance in the initial learning may not maximize learning in the longer term. I exploit this incommensurability to theoretically and empirically interrogate four possibilities for design: productive success, productive failure, unproductive success, and…
Descriptors: Failure, Success, Discovery Learning, Direct Instruction
Head, Cynthia Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study investigated the effects of a Direct Instruction (DI) reading comprehension program on the reading comprehension skills of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability. Although the effectiveness of DI programs has been well documented in disability and instructional literature, effectiveness of DI for…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability
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Wasino; Suharso, R.; Utomo, Cahyo Budi; Shintasiwi, Fitri Amalia – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
The objectives of this research are to analyze the implementation of social science education learning and the construction of students' knowledge after participating in social science education learning activities using cultural eco-literacy approach. This research is a qualitative approach using a case study design, that focuses on analyzing…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Multiple Literacies, Ecology, Cultural Awareness
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Joseph, Stephen; Thomas, Marlene – Cogent Education, 2020
A single group pre-test, post-test quasi-experimental design was utilized to triangulate quantitative and qualitative data obtained from a questionnaire, field notes, classroom observation, and practicum test scores, to determine changes in the questioning behaviours and practices of 31 prospective teachers involved in a three-week practicum…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Behavior Patterns, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Di Camillo, Kirra; Dawson, Vaille – Teaching Science, 2020
This article reports on the explicit introduction of metacognitive strategies by an early career science teacher to support the application of mathematics skills. The research investigated the effectiveness of these strategies with three Year 11 physics students using an action research approach. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Mathematics Skills
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