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Mona, Elmon Henis. "An application of multimedia in English Second Language mathematics and science classroom at George Mhaule Primary School in Mpumalanga Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1776.
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Duy, Nicole. "Revising instructional materials : uniformity among four revisers and their attention to learner data." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59883.
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Despite the emphasis that is placed on collecting learner data in formative evaluation, there has been little research to support its use in the revision of instructional materials. In addition, although the literature suggests that different revisers making changes to the same instructional materials will yield different revisions, little research has been conducted to confirm this. The present study addressed these two issues by having four instructional designers, acting as revisers, make revisions to a draft version of an instructional presentation while thinking aloud. A coding scheme was applied to the think-aloud protocols. Revisions were sorted using a product attribute categorization system consisting of three main categories central to evaluating instructional materials. The results suggest that revisers do give a considerable amount of attention to learner data when revising materials. In addition, there was a great deal of uniformity among the revisions that were generated by the different revisers.
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Tremblay, Diana. "Comparison of feedback generated by subject matter and learner experts during formative evaluation." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26344.
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The literature on formative evaluation advocates the use of both subject matter and learner experts to review instructional materials, yet there has been little research to support this recommendation. The present study investigates the distinguishing characteristics of these two expert reviewers, in particular the type and amount of oral feedback they produced and the cognitive processes they engaged in. The think-aloud method was employed to obtain feedback about a six page instructional unit from eight experts; four subject matter and four learner experts. Comments from the experts were transcribed, segmented and coded according to three coding systems. Results indicated that the two groups produced similar data. In addition, the findings showed that both groups referred to similar domains of knowledge, evoked or constructed similar plans and identified their task as detecting problems. These findings contradict the use of both types of experts during formative evaluation. Some practical recommendations for practitioners are offered.
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Bordonaro, Tino. "A comparison of the effectiveness cost and efficiency of four formative evaluation conditions /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68074.
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This study compared the effectiveness, cost and efficiency of four formative evaluation conditions: (a) revision based on learner data (RLD), (b) revision based on expert data (RED), (c) revision based on both learner and expert data (RBD), and (d) revision without data (RND). Two more conditions were present in the study: materials in draft (MID) and no treatment (NT). The NT condition consisted of students who were tested without exposure to the instructional materials. The instruction that was formatively evaluated was a six-page article describing the relationship between diet and cancer. The article was written by chemistry professors for an "undergraduate chemistry course for non-science students". Undergraduates (n = 187) provided the effectiveness data. They randomly received one of the four formatively evaluated versions of the article, read the article, answered questions on an objective test, and indicated their confidence with respect to their responses. Professional revisors (n = 8) provided cost data. Each revisor provided cost estimates for all formative evaluation conditions. Efficiency was provided by combining effectiveness with cost data. Effectiveness differences were found between the MID and RLD, and the MID and RBD. The mean test scores, as well as the mean confidence-weighed test scores, of both RLD and RBD were significantly higher than those of the MID. Cost differences indicated three levels of cost. RND was the least costly formative evaluation condition. RLD and RED were equivalent in cost and more costly than RND. RBD was the most costly formative evaluation condition. With respect to efficiency, RLD was recommended. RLD was the least costly condition that was significantly more effective than MID. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Goyette, Els Spekkens. "The effects of dictionary usage on text comprehension." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40129.
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The ability of dictionaries, either in printed or electronic form, to enhance text comprehension has not been systematically investigated. Consequently, in order to investigate whether dictionary support improves text comprehension, this study compared readers' first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) text comprehension across three dictionary conditions and two proficiency levels. Recall, dictionary usage and reading times were the measures employed. Subjects were anglophone members of the Canadian Armed Forces military personnel with high-intermediate to advanced French second-language skills.Procedural texts were used: subjects read both an L1 and an L2 text in each of three conditions: (a) no dictionary access; (b) access to hard-copy dictionaries; and (c) access to on-line computerized dictionaries. The number of words looked up varied greatly by language, by proficiency level and by dictionary modality, with a far greater number of words accessed in L2 than in L1, by intermediate- than by advanced-level readers and in the on-line rather than in the hard-copy dictionary condition. The variance in dictionary usage was explained by the two-way interactions between language, proficiency level and dictionary condition.
Reading times were higher for intermediate-level readers than for advanced-level readers, and when L2 rather than L1 texts were read. These reading time results are consistent with the patterns of dictionary consultation, where intermediate L2 reading produced the most look-ups.
Most readers expressed a preference for on-line dictionaries, reporting that the ease of access led to faster and better text comprehension, but this impression was not confirmed by the findings. Analyses of recall protocols indicated that there was no main effect for the type of dictionary consulted. Similar levels of recall were found on all passages read with access to dictionaries, regardless of the language of presentation. Significantly lower recalls were found on passages read with no access to dictionaries, with L2 recall lower than L1 recall. This study indicates that the type of dictionary accessed does not significantly influence comprehension. The high number of L2 dictionary look-ups does suggest that readers may use dictionaries to compensate for weaker second language vocabulary skills, resulting in similar levels of text comprehension across languages.
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MITCHELL, MYRNA LOU WILLIAMS. "A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INNOVATIVE INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS UTILIZED IN LOWER DIVISION MATHEMATICS AS MEASURED BY STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE FINDINGS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184030.
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Mathematics presents a stumbling block to many students, particularly those majoring in scientific fields, business administration, or elementary education. Improvement of student achievement in mathematics at the lower division college level is needed. Seven instructional methods were investigated in terms of student achievement: programmed instruction (P.I.), individualized instruction (I.I.), computer based instruction (CBI), laboratory and discovery methods (Lab), television (TV), audio-tutorial (A-T), and tutoring. The research questions were: (1) What is the relative effectiveness of the innovative instructional methods as measured by student achievement and compared to the traditional lecture method? (2) What is the relative effectiveness of the innovative instructional methods on students of differing ability and course levels. (3) What is the effectiveness of combinations of the innovative instructional methods? A meta-analytical approach was used. Studies comparing an innovative method to the lecture or to another innovative method were located, and the summary data in each were used to calculate an "effect size"--a standardized measure of the effectiveness of the innovative method--to which statistical procedures were applied. The meta-analysis found that (1) Relative to the lecture method, six of the innovative methods produced a positive effect on student achievement. The ranking of the methods in order of decreasing effectiveness was: tutoring, CAI, A-T, I.I., P.I., Lab, TV. (2) The most effective methods by level of course were: (a) Precalculus level: CAI, A-T, and tutoring; (b) Calculus level: tutoring, I.I., P.I., and A-T; (c) Foundations of Mathematics (elementary education majors): P.I.; Descriptive Geometry: TV. The most effective methods by ability level of the student were: (a) High ability: CAI and Lab; (b) Middle ability: CAI, I.I., and P.I.; (c) Low ability: P.I. and A-T. (3) The lack of empirical studies prevent a determination of the relative effectiveness of combinations of the innovative methods. Recommendations include the following: (1) Variation of instructional methods; (2) Incorporation of specific, effective elements of innovative methods into the lower division college mathematics instructor's repertoire; and (3) Empirical investigation of the effectiveness of combinations of methods and of various instructional methods on students of different ability levels.
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Nguyen, Luz Elena. "The use of reciprocal teaching as a mediational tool to enhance reading comprehension." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3278.
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The purpose of this project was to study how Reciprocal Teaching can best serve students in a third grade classroom for reading comprehension. A curriculum was developed to help the classroom teacher find a better way to teach reading comprehension using four important reading strategies: predicting, summarzing, clarifying and questioning. Several mediated tools were developed to enhance reading comprehension with clear explanations on how to implement Reciprocal Teaching with the current curriculum and California Standards on comprehension.
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Latendresse, Lucille B. "Etude de l'habileté à utiliser un matériel pictographique pour comprendre des histoires, chez des enfants d'âge préscolaire." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72088.
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This study examined the ability of preliterate Kindergarten students to use pictographic sequences as cues in comprehending stories. Thirty-six children were trained to use a pictographic encoding for objects, actions, and spatial and temporal relations. Sequences of these pictographs were used to represent events and relations among objects. The children's use of the pictographic sequences in comprehending stories was investigated in three studies. Study 1 assessed the cuing effect of pictographic information that was available while children listened to stories. Study 2 assessed the cuing effect of pictographic information that was available to the children as they recalled a story to which they had listened previously. Study 3 assessed the cuing effect of pictographic information available during recall for stories in which the initial input for the stories was only pictographic information.Children's comprehension in telling or retelling a story was analyzed in terms of recall, recall and inference, and inference types of processing of semantic propositions according to Frederiksen's (1975) propositional analyses model. The analyses revealed that for all studies, most comprehension processing was of the joint recall and inference type. This result indicates that the children were attempting to comprehend the story, as opposed on the one hand to memorizing the story (as would be indicated by high recall) and on the other to producing a story (as would be indicated by high inference).
Study 1 revealed that looking at pictographic material during an oral presentation of the story did not facilitate comprehension as compared to an oral presentation only.
Study 2 revealed that the presence of pictographic material during recall production enhanced comprehension as compared to recall without such material being available. In this situation, pictographs appeared to serve as cues helping the subject to retrieve relevant information about the story.
Study 3 revealed that cuing facilitation of pictographic sequences during recall found in Study 2 also occurred when the story was initially presented by pictographic sequences alone.
The results of the three studies indicate that preliterate Kindergarten children can use pictographic sequences to augment their comprehension of simple stories presented orally, and that in certain situation they can comprehend such stories in a substantial manner from pictographic sequences alone.
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Pedraza, Vincent. "CATSY, computer aided teaching system : system overview, graphics and applications." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/416441.
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Computer Aided Teaching System (CATSY) is an interactive graphics system, utilizing current microcomputer technology, along with a graphics tablet and a large screen projection system to enhance lecture presentations. Included in this thesis are descriptions of the supporting graphics software (POLY-ReGIS) and the computer peripherals used in the development of CATSY.The development of interactive graphics is stressed in this thesis. Applications of these graphics to CATSY are presented and an introduction to the data structures used in this system is also given. This thesis is intended to support and complement the masters thesis presented by Mr. John Raab, which deals primarily with the system implementation, data structures and the text editor used in CATSY.
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Dzambara, Tobias Munyaradzi. "An analysis of the distribution and use of teaching aids in mathematics in selected Windhoek secondary schools." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001410.
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This study investigates the types of mathematics teaching aids available at both public and private secondary schools in Windhoek. The study characterises their usage and source as well as teachers’ perceptions towards the use of such teaching resources in the Mathematics classroom. The study is grounded in an interpretive paradigm and employed a mixed methods approach to generate both quantitative and qualitative data in two sequential phases. Phase 1 of the research process, which involved 75 Mathematics teachers, took the form of an audit of the availability and use of teaching aids at 25 secondary schools in Windhoek. A case study methodology was adopted in Phase 2 which focused on five purposively selected schools that displayed different characteristics in terms of the availability of teaching resources. The study found that the majority of teachers at secondary schools in Windhoek have a positive attitude towards the importance and role of teaching aids in Mathematics, seeing them as promoters of hands-on engagement, visual reasoning, active participation and motivation amongst learners. However, in some instances schools are underresourced with respect to certain types of teaching aids, specifically graph boards, geoboards, geometric models and computers. A need for appropriate in-school support on the use of teaching aids was also identified
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Lebeta, T. V. "An investigation into pre-service teachers mathematical behaviour in an application and modelling context." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4455_1189159771.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the hypothetical view that the use of familiar social institutions in the formulation of mathematical problems by mathematics pre-service teachers will enable them to find solutions to problems by taking meaning, context and realities of a problem into consideration. The approach to investigate this hypothetical view was to describe the mathematical behaviour of pre-service teachers in an application and modelling context. This study, therefore, described the strategies used to arrive at solutions for problems from real life situations that are familiar to the participants.
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Loock, Hougaard. "Die gebruik van die interaktiewe witbord in geskiedenisonderrig : 'n gevallestudie." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96782.
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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The current era is characterised by the rapid development in the field of technology. One of the fields in which technology is making great strides is education. This study focused specifically on the use of the interactive whiteboard in the teaching of history. South Africa’s educational system has undergone many changes over the past decades. One of the biggest changes has involved the use and application of information and communication technology in schools. There has been a move from the traditional method of teaching (the use of the traditional blackboard) to the use of the interactive whiteboard. The swift change in pedagogy has been ascribed to the growing use of information and communication technology in classrooms and the worldwide informational and communicational era in which we live. Like other countries, South Africa has also made certain changes to be in line with the rest of world. South Africa’s development in the use of the interactive whiteboard is still very limited and, as its counterparts, it has its own specific challenges. Research has shown that new opportunities and possibilities for teachers of history have arisen through the use of the interactive whiteboard and that they need to be exploited. Against this background, the following research question was formulated: What are the innovation possibilities in the use of the interactive whiteboard in the teaching of history? The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyse, describe and explain the experiences of five history teachers who were working with an interactive whiteboard in their classrooms. The study was conducted within an interpretive paradigm which guided the qualitative research design. A multiple case study was used within the qualitative research design. Data were generated by means of semi-structured individual interviews. The interview data were transcribed and analysed. The findings show that the use of the interactive whiteboard has many advantages for learning and teaching. Learners are now stimulated visually, perceptually, kinesthetically and auditorily. The different interactions allow the learners to be stimulated in more than one way at a time. The interactions can be pedagogical, physical, conceptual, technical or dialogical. The findings also shown that, traditionally, too much emphasis was placed on the source-based approach and the analysis of historical sources. It is no longer sufficient for a history teacher to teach learners just one historical skill. There should be deliberate attempts to teach learners to acquire all the historical skills. It is essential for schools to emphasise the integration, the implementation strategy and the maintenance of the interactive whiteboard. Moreover, it is essential for teachers to be trained in the use of this educational tool, and regular opportunities must be given for training. Teachers must first learn the basic computer skills before an interactive whiteboard is installed in the classroom. The user’s outlook will determine how effectively and successfully the interactive whiteboard will be used in the classroom.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die huidige era word gekenmerk deur die snelle ontwikkeling van nuwe tegnologie. In die onderwys is een van hierdie ontwikkelinge die gebruik van die interaktiewe witbord. In hierdie studie het die kollig geval op die aanwending van die interaktiewe witbord in geskiedenisonderrig. Die Suid-Afrikaanse onderwysstelsel het oor die afgelope dekades verskeie veranderinge beleef. Een van die grootste veranderinge was ten opsigte van die benutting en aanwending van inligting- en kommunikasietegnologie in skole. Daar is van die tradisionele manier van onderrig (gebruik van die gewone skryfbord) na die gebruik van die interaktiewe witbord beweeg. Die rede vir hierdie skuif in die pedagogiek is die groeiende gebruik van inligting- en kommunikasietegnologie in die klaskamers en die wêreldwye snelle toename in die gebruik van inligtingstegnologie op alle terreine. Soos die meeste lande het Suid-Afrika ook die skuif gemaak om in pas te kom met die res van die wêreld ten opsigte van die gebruik van die interaktiewe witbord. In Suid-Afrika is die ontwikkeling van die interaktiewe witbord nog redelik beperk en soos die ander lande het Suid-Afrika ook sy unieke uitdagings en probleme. Navorsing het getoon dat die interaktiewe witbord nuwe geleenthede en moontlikhede vir die geskiedenisonderwyser na vore bring wat behoorlik ontgin moet word, met die gevolg dat die volgende navorsingsvraag omstaan het: Wat die innovasiemoontlikhede ten opsigte van die interaktiewe witbord in geskiedenisonderrig? Die doel van hierdie interpretatiewe navorsing was om vyf geskiedenisonderwysers wat tans met ’n interaktiewe witbord werk se ervarings te beskryf en te verduidelik. Die studie is gedoen vanuit die interpretatiewe paradigma wat die kwalitatiewe navorsingsontwerp gerig het. Binne die kwalitatiewe navorsingsontwerp is ’n meervoudige gevallestudie gebruik omdat meer as een geval ondersoek is. Data is deur middel van semi-gestruktureerde individuele onderhoude gegenereer. Die onderhoudsdata is getranskribeer en verwerk. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za iv Bevindinge het getoon dat die interaktiewe witbord baie voordele vir leer en onderrig inhou en dat die leerders nou visueel, perseptueel, kinesteties en ouditief gestimuleer word. Hierdie voordele is te danke aan die verskillende interaksies wat die leerders met die interaktiewe witbord het. Daar vind nou pedagogiese, fisiese, konseptuele, tegniese en dialogiese interaksies plaas. Verder is daar bevind dat daar tradisioneel te veel klem op die brongebaseerde benadering en die analisering van historiese bronne geplaas is. Dit is vandag nie meer vir ʼn geskiedenisonderwyser voldoende om vir leerders net enkele geskiedenisvaardighede aan te leer nie. Daar moet dus doelgerigte pogings aangewend word om vir die leerders al die vereiste historiese vaardighede aan te leer. Dit is duidelik dat skole voortaan baie groot klem op die integrasie, implementeringstrategieë en instandhouding van die interaktiewe witbord moet lê. Daarbenewens is die opleiding van die onderwysers van kardinale belang en gereelde geleenthede vir opleiding moet geskep word. Onderwysers moet ook eers oor die basiese rekenaarvaardighede beskik voordat die interaktiewe witbord by ’n skool geïnstalleer word. Die effektiwiteit van die interaktiewe witbord en hoe suksesvol dit in die onderrig gebruik word, sal grootliks deur die ingesteldheid van die verbruiker daarvan bepaal word.
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Lee, Judy Raven. "Learning when using an instructionally designed mediated lecture compared with traditional lecture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184385.
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This study focused on the differences in the knowledge gained between instructionally designed mediated lecture instruction and traditional lecture instruction. The sample used in this study consisted of 107 new hospital employees required to attend an orientation. The experimental group consisted of 43 subjects and the control group consisted of 64 subjects. Each group was given a pre-, post- and post-delayed knowledge test and an attitude test. The following hypotheses were tested: (H₀1) There will be no differences in post-test scores between groups. (H₂) There will be no differences in post-delayed test scores between groups. (H₃) There will be no differences in attitudes between groups. An analysis of covariance was computed on the data to test hypothesis one and hypothesis two and a one-way analysis of variance to test hypothesis three. The results indicated no significant differences on post-test scores and Hypothesis One was retained. Hypothesis Two was rejected as a significant difference indicated an increase in knowledge retained over time by the experimental group. Hypothesis Three was rejected with the experimental group reacting much more favorably to the mediated lecture. The conclusions reached as a result of this study were that both groups were learning, regardless of the method of instruction. Also knowledge was retained over time much better by the experimental group when the information was presented in the instructionally designed mediated format. Finally, the favorable response by the experimental group to the mediated lecture indicated a preference for this teaching format. Recommendations for additional investigations were discussed.
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Francoeur, Eric. "The forgotten tool : a socio-historical analysis of the development and use of mechanical molecular models in chemistry and allied disciplines." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0003/NQ44433.pdf.
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Mustaffa, Mohd N. "An alternative user interface for an expanded version of the Computer Aided Teaching System (CATSY)." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/459232.
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A new version of a Computer Aided Teaching System, CATSY-3, was created in order to allow greater flexibility and efficiency than older versions of CATSY. In the implementation of CATSY-3, the menu was transferred from the screen to the data tablet. In the process, the control structure of CATSY was rewritten to allow complete freedom of movement from one menu option to any another.A keyboard input feature (KEYIN) is also included in CATSY-3 in order to allow a more rapid mode of menu selection and to allow the option of precision coordinate input. Additional menu options are included in CATSY-3, namely, COPY, MOVE, REFRESH_OBJECT, interactive COLOR change, automatic set-up for input devices, among others.The history and description of various electronic chalkboard` implementations are also presented in this thesis.
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Burt, Charles Wesley. "Identification of critical variables in developmental testing and an experimental examination of the number and roles of participants in testing sessions." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75951.
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A large sample (N = 206) of expert instructional designers was surveyed in order to determine how developmental testing is designed and conducted. The majority of respondents indicated that they did conduct formative testing of prototype instructional materials for purposes of revising them. Both one-to-one and small group testing were recommended with both the developer and the test subjects assuming active roles during the testing sessions. Both quantitative and qualitative (including attitudinal) data are gathered with an emphasis placed on the analysis of the posttest data. Based on a review of the literature and the results of the survey, an experiment was conducted in order to investigate the effects of different roles that the participants might play during testing sessions with different numbers of participants within sessions. Individuals assigned to small groups did not produce as many comments during instruction as the one-to-one procedure. A content analysis of the qualitative data revealed that test subjects generally comment by indicating comprehension/recall problems. As a source of feedback, the attitudinal survey provided a considerable amount of data especially with small groups which were reluctant to make critical comments during instruction.
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Yego, Lily Jerotich, Violet Opata, and Heloise Sathorar. "Exploring the use of participatory visual methods in teaching sexuality education within the HIV and AIDS education programme in selected Kenyan secondary schools." Thesis, Nelson Mandela University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/13414.
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The HIV and AIDS prevalence in Kenya is still high and remains a major health concern despite the Kenyan government’s initiatives to create awareness about the epidemic through inclusion of the HIV and AIDS programme in schools. This is because the provision of sexuality, HIV and AIDS education in schools is not effective. Teachers face various challenges in the effective delivery of the subject due to their discomfort related to these sensitive topics. Therefore, learners are left inadequately supported by the teachers. With an immense variety of conflicting information about sexuality availed to young people through the social media and also through their peers, young people are left at risk of exploring their sexualities with inadequate and wrong information, thus exposing them to HIV infections. Since schools have been identified as ideal sites for the effective delivery of sexuality, HIV and AIDS education, teachers are expected to teach the learners using a variety of pedagogical strategies in order to achieve efficacy in the delivery of this subject, hence the need to explore teaching styles that could provide a safe space for the effective delivery of sexuality, HIV and AIDS education. This study sought to explore teachers’ experiences of using participatory visual methods in teaching sexuality education within the HIV and AIDS education programme in selected Kenyan secondary schools, in order to understand how such methods could affect the teaching of Sexuality education. This study employed a phenomenological research design, interpretivist paradigm and a participatory methodology. Memory accounts, reflective journals and focus group discussions were used for data generation with nine secondary school teachers, from three purposively selected schools in Kenya. Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory underpinned the study. The findings revealed that teachers are uncomfortable teaching sexuality education because of fear of leading learners astray, fear of victimization and sexualization, and fear of misleading and hurting learners because of lack of knowledge. This resulted in teachers feeling guilty due to ineffective delivery of Sexuality education. The findings also revealed that participatory visual methods were effective for use by the teachers and the learners in the classroom to navigate issues around sexuality, HIV and AIDS. This was because they are learner-centred, thus making learners producers of knowledge while at the same time encouraging optimism in teaching and learning. This study thus recommends pre-service teacher training on participatory methods of teaching. Educational institutions should also arrange for workshops to train in-service teachers on comprehensive sexuality, HIV and AIDS education and how to tackle it in their classrooms. Moreover, curriculum developers should make sexuality, HIV and AIDS education a compulsory subject to give it equal status with other examinable subjects, for it to be taken seriously. It is only through concerted efforts from everyone that Kenya can reach its target of Zero new HIV infections.
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Botha, Adele. "A framework to enhance the mobile user experience in an Mlearning interaction." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008163.
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The new millennium is witness to a telecommunications world that is vastly different from even the recent past with developments in the mobile sector having dramatically changed the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) landscape. Mobile cellular technology has proliferated faster than any previous technology and is now the most ubiquitous technology in the world. The focus of this thesis is the development of a framework to enhance the Mobile User Experience in an Mlearning interaction. This research is contextualised by the goal-oriented use of mobile cellular technologies in a formal educational environment. As such the study, although residing in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), acknowledges issues arising in the Education Domain as a specific field of application. The aim of the research was to investigate the components of a framework to enhance the Mobile User Experience in an Mlearning interaction. The development of the framework was facilitated by the exploration of: the Mobile User Experience factors and their impact, on the Mobile User Experience of learners participating in a goal-oriented Mlearning interaction. These critical factors were documented in terms of the Mobile User Experience components, and the relationships of these components to each other as well as the Mobile User Experience of an Mlearning interaction. The research, grounded in a phenomenological research philosophy, applied an inductive reasoning approach, and was operationalised through a single case study methodology. A qualitative research strategy was considered appropriate, as the phenomenon of User Experience is linked to the hedonistic attributes of the interaction. This study was conducted in four phases with focus on three embedded units of analysis. The three units of analysis were identified as: The learner as end user in an Mlearning interaction; The educator as designer of the Mlearning interaction; and The Mlearning interaction. The research revealed that the Mobile User Experience of an Mlearning interaction is affected by the mobile user, mobile use, mobile device, mobile business practices, mobile networks, mobile interaction and mobile context. Within the Mlearning interaction the significant components are the learners as mobile users, the enhance interactions, removal of barriers to the interaction, goal-oriented nature of the interaction and the ducational context. Identifying these components and their associated Mobile User Experience factors and impacts, present the main contribution of this thesis. In conclusion, the limitations of the study are documented and topics for future research are outlined.
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White, Joanna. "An input enhancement study with ESL children : effects of the acquisition of possessive determiners." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35428.
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In this classroom-based study, the effects of input enhancement on the acquisition of a linguistic feature known to be problematic to francophone children learning English. were investigated. The research questions were: (1) Can L2 learners benefit from typographically enhanced input in their acquisition of third person singular possessive determiners? (2) Is typographically enhanced input more effective than unenhanced input? (3) Is typographically enhanced input more effective when combined with a book flood?To investigate these questions, three treatment conditions were implemented with Grade 6 ESL learners. Groups E and E+ received a typographically enhanced input flood. This did not include explicit reference to the learners' L1 nor was a pedagogical rule presented at any time. In addition to the typographically enhanced input, Group E+ was exposed to extensive reading and listening activities. To ensure that all groups in the study were exposed to written input containing the target features, Group U read unenhanced versions of the texts read by the other two groups. A pretest, immediate and delayed posttest design was used in this quasi-experimental study.
Results indicated that all three instructional treatments improved the learners' acquisition of the target forms and that those in Group E+ received the greatest apparent benefits. At the immediate posttest, learners in Group E+ outperformed those in the other two groups on written tasks designed to measure their ability to recognize correct instances of the target forms. Learners in Group E+ also outperformed the others on an oral production task. On the delayed posttest five weeks later, however, Groups E and U had caught up with Group E+, and most of the between-group differences had disappeared.
The finding that all learners had significantly increased in their accuracy and development of possessive determiners immediately following instruction suggests that the target forms were equally salient to the learners in the three groups. That all learners continued to improve but did not reach advanced developmental stages, however, suggests that the salience of these features in the input may not have been sufficiently explicit. The results are discussed in terms of the potential need for more explicit instruction in the acquisition of third person singular possessive determiners. This may be particularly important because of substantial differences in the way in which gender is marked in English and French.
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Schmelzer, Diana McAllister. "A case study and proposed decision guide for allocating instructional computing resources at the school site level." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76500.
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School based administrators must often determine the use of potentially powerful computing resources for the school's instructional program. While site level administrators have allocated many kinds of resources within the schools, the allocation of this new technology has little precedent. A decision guide is proposed to assist site level administrators.
This guide explores three major sources of information to assist the site level administrator in making computer-related allocations. First, the context of the school, such as the school profile, and the district plan for instructional use of microcomputers, forms a basis for investigating the allocation of computing resources. Second, because both access to and applications for instructional computing resources are critical issues, the moral dilemma of equity-excellence is examined. Finally, empirical information from the existing literature and from a possible school based research effort are analyzed. A procedure for using this information to make decisions is proposed. By weighing these three sources of information, it is contended that the administrator is better able to allocate potentially powerful computing resources.
Woven into the decision guide are specific examples from one administrator's efforts to make decisions about word processing at an intermediate school. The context, equity-excellence issues, and empirical information are examined in this particular site to illustrate one application of the guide and to share findings about word processing as an instructional tool.Ed. D.
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Marthinussen, Patricia Joyce. "Die belangrikheid van die fonologiese en fonemiese bewustheid in aanvangslees by graad 1-leerders in 'n taalarm omgewing." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1890.
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Thesis (MEd (Faculty of Education and Social Sciences))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011This study emphasized the important role of phonological and phonemic awareness and understanding of letter-sound correspondence in elementary reading in a grade 1 class. The importance of preparatory activities preceding reading is strongly emphasized when looking at strategies for delays to cope in beginning reading. The ability of learners to develop auditory and visual perceptions and discernment between sounds and sound patterns are described as predictors of successful reading. Early and continuous monitoring of initial reading skills are an important aspect to reduce and prevent reading barriers. Action Research is conducted in a grade 1 class with learners who have not received grade R instruction and who at age 5 ½ years already enrolled at the school. The learners are young and do not receive enough stimulation at home. They already show barriers to learning in the effective use of language and learning with school entry. Due to the large backlogs of these learners the focus is on phonological awareness and phonemic awareness in elementary reading of the young child. The development of phonological and phonemic awareness and the organization and importance of teaching phonics in context, as a method of reading to strengthen skills at grade 1 learner in a poor language environment is investigated. A variety of teaching strategies in reading approaches is investigated in the study. The findings of the effect of phonological awareness and phonemic awareness in elementary reading are discussed. Learning Programmes such as the ‘Foundation for Learning’ of the National Department of Education (DoE) introduced to schools should be taught thoroughly. The view of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED 2006: 3) who expressed the approach to Literacy as “explicit teaching of phonics within a balanced approach to reading” is held. This approach allows major challenges to educators and learners in a poor language environment. Educators' methodology of teaching reading should be adjusted and should be focused on the teaching of phonics in context to maintain a balance between phonic and balanced approach to reading.
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Meyer, Karen. "Children as experimenters : elementary students' actions in an experimental context with magnets." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31132.
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In science education the nature and value of science laboratory activities have become the subject of critical debate. Some science educators argue that a better understanding of what students do while purposefully engaged with materials would provide some answers. The intent of this study is to explore elementary students' actions and the knowledge they use while designing and conducting experiments.
Four dyads each from grades 4 and 7 participated in three events. First, each pair was presented with a question (Which magnet is strongest?), two sets of magnets (one set at a time) and materials. The researcher observed and videotaped dyads' actions with materials until they made a conclusion for both magnet sets. Second, the researcher presented dyads with a selective set of materials to further explore their conceptions of magnetism. Finally, the pairs of students were interviewed while they watched the video of themselves experimenting during the first two events. The data were analyzed using an action theory perspective which emphasizes the cognitive nature of action.
Students' models of magnetism were constructed from the data. Students used more than one model to explain different effects they observed. The designs of student experiments were grounded in their operational knowledge of the materials. Dyads generated data from a series of experiments whereby they manipulated different materials in a variety of ways. Dyads who obtained variable data did not repeat experiments to confirm or disconfirm results; rather they used specific strategies to make conclusions. The designs and procedures of experiments of students from both grades were similar, likely due to their common knowledge of the materials and their limited experience with open-ended tasks.Education, Faculty of
Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
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Chiphambo, Shakespear M. E. K. "An investigation of the role of physical manipulatives in the teaching and learning of measurement in Grade 8 : a case study using surface area and volume." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003540.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of physical manipulatives in the teaching and learning of measurement in Grade 8. The study focuses on how the use of physical manipulatives promotes learners' mathematical proficiency in relation to the five strands of Kilpatrick, Swafford and Findell (2001). The basis of the research is a case study in the interpretive paradigm involving 18 out of a cohort of 270 Grade 8 learners in the school where I teach. The data was collected using a range of methods including: (i) baseline assessment tasks, first piloted using 7 Grade 8 learners and then given to the target group; (ii) an intervention programme with intervention tasks; (iii) a post-intervention task; (iv) observations during the intervention; and (v) individual interviews. The results of the baseline assessment and the post-intervention tasks were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. My research findings indicate an overall improvement of the performance after learners engaged in using physical manipulatives. The average mark of the learners in the baseline assessment task was 23% and after the intervention programme the average mark was 31 %. The responses from the learners interviewed showed that they were motivated and that the use of physical manipulatives assisted them in understanding the concepts of measurement, in particular surface area and volume. The results of my study thus reveal that the use of physical manipulatives in teaching and learning mathematics has a positive role to play in learners' understanding of surface area and volume at the Grade 8 level. The fmdings of this case study support other research regarding the importance of using physical manipulatives in teaching and learning mathematics. They align with other findings that assert that manipulatives are essential mediating tools in the development of the conceptual and procedural understanding of mathematical concepts, clarifying and helping learners to visualize abstract mathematical concepts.
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Akers, John W. "A comparison of guided exploration and direct instruction computer tutors." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30996.
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Lam, Ian Ian. "The development of ESP teaching materials for secondary students studying fashion design in Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2008. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1942473.
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Mulford, Kymberli Fahlbeck. "A multimedia paradigm of engaged learning: An intergenerational approach." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1790.
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Van, Zyl Ann Elizabeth. "Exploring the potential theory-practice gap in the teaching methods of nurse educators." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86609.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The lack of theory-practice integration has a long-standing history in nursing education due to many factors and causes. It is continuously indicated in research studies that there is no easy or perfect solution. The causes for this theory-practice gap seem to be in the theoretical and/or clinical environment. In literature teaching methods are identified as one of the most important causes of the theory-practice gap. In view of the informal feedback received from nurse educators and nursing managers it was necessary to investigate the lack of theory-practice integration. The aim of the study was thus to explore in which respects current teaching methods utilised by nurse educators at a higher education institution comply or do not comply with teaching methods suggested in literature as essential for theory-practice integration. An exploratory descriptive research design was used to investigate the nature of the teaching methods utilised by nurse educators facilitating theoretical learning. Questionnaires were sent to nurse educators and student nurses registered for the Diploma in General Nursing Science programme. The questionnaire that mainly consisted of closed questions was used to collect and analyse the data. The data were generated at four learning sites of a higher education institution. The validity of the results was verified by an observer in the field for which a structured checklist was used. Results indicated that a wide spectrum of teaching methods were utilised by the nurse educators and that the student nurses had limited internet access at the learning centres. Eight (8) teaching methods, complying with teaching methods identified by literature as essential to enhance theorypractice integration, were used. However, it was evident that formal lectures were overused. It raises concerns as this method does not comply with teaching methods essential to enhance theory-practice integration. In fact, it limits the students’ ability to develop critical thinking and is seen as one of the possible causes of the theory-practice gap. Feedback relating to the teaching aids used showed that the data projector with PowerPoint slides, whiteboard and textbooks were the three teaching aids used most frequently. According to literature, the overuse of textbooks is generally viewed as the starting point of the theory-practice gap. The results of this study imply that an increased awareness and training of nurse educators regarding their teaching methods may increase their teaching and facilitation skills. It seems to be the nurse educator’s responsibility to ensure that teaching methods are used that are essential to enhance theory-practice integration and it is the responsibility of management at any higher educational institution to ensure that the necessary educational and information technology resources are available. It is recommended that further studies be conducted to determine whether nurse educators do indeed apply the teaching methods effectively to narrow the theory-practice gap.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die gebrek aan teorie-praktyk integrasie in verpleegkunde het ‘n lang gekiedenis in verpleegonderwys as gevolg van verskeie faktore en oorsake. Navorsing toon deurgaans dat daar nie ‘n maklike of perfekte oplossing vir hierdie probleem is nie. Die oorsake vir die teorie-praktyk gaping kan teoretiese en/of klinies van aard wees. Onderrigmetodes word deur navorsing as een van die belangrikste oorsake vir die teorie-praktyk gaping aangedui. Die informele terugvoer van dosente en verpleegdiensbestuurders het getoon dat teorie- en praktyk integrasie nie voldoende is nie. Dit was dus noodsaaklik om die onderrigmetodes van dosente in verpleegkunde te ondersoek. Die doel van die studie was om te bepaal tot watter mate die huidige onderrigmetodes van die dosente wat verbonde is aan ‘n hoër onderrig instelling voldoen of nie voldoen nie aan onderrigmetodes wat in literatuur aangedui word as essensieël vir die bevordering van teorie-praktyk integrasie. In hierdie studie is beskrywende en ondersoekende navorsingsmetodes gebruik om die onderrigmetodes van die dosente in verpleegkunde te ondersoek. Vraelyste is uitgestuur na dosente en student-verpleegkundiges wat besig is met die Diploma in Algemene Verpleegkunde. Die vraelys, wat hoofsaaklik geslote vrae bevat het, is gebruik om die nodige data te versamel en te analiseer. Die data is by vier van die hoër onderrig instellings se leersentrums versamel. Die geldigheid van die resultate is geverifieër deur ‘n waarnermer in die veld wat ‘n gestruktureerde kontrolelys vir hierdie doel gebruik het. Die resultate het getoon dat ‘n wye spektrum van onderrigmetodes deur die dosente in verpleegkunde gebruik is en dat die student verpleegkundiges beperkte internet toegang by die leersentrums het. Van die literatuur geïdentifiseerde onderrigmetodes wat as essensieël vir die bevordering van teorie-praktyk integrasie is, het die dosente agt (8) metodes gebruik. Dit was duidelik dat formele lesings grootliks oorbenut is. Dit is kommerwekkend aangesien die lesingmetode nie voldoen aan die onderrigmetodes wat essensieël is vir die bevordering van teorie-praktyk integrasie nie. Inteendeel, die metode beperk studente se vermoë om kritiese denke te ontwikkel en word beskou as een van die moontlike oorsake vir die teorie-praktyk gaping. Die resultate het verder getoon dat die meeste onderrighulpmiddels wat gebruik is, is die data-projektor met PowerPoint skyfies, die witbord en handboeke. Die oorbenutting van handboeke word algemeen in literatuur beskou as die beginpunt van die teorie-praktyk gaping. Die studieresultate impliseer dat ‘n toenemende bewusmaking en opleiding van die dosente in verpleegkunde ten opsigte van hul onderrigmetodes moontlik onderrig- en fasiliteringsvaardighede kan bevorder. Dit blyk dat dit individuele dosente se verantwoordelikheid is om te verseker dat die essensiële onderrigmetodes vir die bevordering van teorie-praktyk integrasie gebruik word en dit is die bestuur van enige hoër onderrig instelling se verantwoordelikheid om te verseker dat die nodige opvoedkundige- en informasietegnologie beskikbaar is. Dit word aanbeveel dat verdere studies gedoen word om vas te stel of dosente in verpleegkunde onderrigmetodes effektief aanwend ten einde die teorie-praktyk gaping te verklein.
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Branch, Robert C. "The effects of flow diagrams and texts with instructive questions on learning verbal chains." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54497.
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This study examined the ways in which diagrams and texts were used to teach
verbal chains and other forms of cyclical information. One hundred twenty-nine college
students were randomly assigned to one of four stimulus treatments and a
comprehension test. The four treatments conditions were: Text Only (Control), Diagram
Only, Text with Instructive Questions, and Diagram with Instructive Questions. Flow
diagrams were more effective than texts as a presentation type when teaching cyclical
information. The groups that studied diagrams scored significantly higher on the
comprehension test than the groups that studied texts §(1,125) = 22.44, p < .05.
However, instructive questions used as prompts or as study organizers did not enhance
the instructional effectiveness of diagrams or texts. The groups that received instructive
questions as an adjunct to the presentation mode scored signiticantly lower on the
comprehension test than the groups that did not receive the adjunct questions F(1, 125) =
8.14, p < .05. Further analysis indicated no interaction among the independent
variables. It was concluded that flow diagrams are more effective than text when
teaching verbal chains.Ed. D.
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Ziskovsky, Lorraine. "Attempts to improve the teaching of English by Black teachers in selected areas of the Eastern Cape and the Transkei, through educational workshops and resource materials." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003060.
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This action research study covers the period November 1983 to August 1985, and is an ethnographic account of what started as a small-scale attempt to assist black teachers of English at the Standard 6, 7 and 8 level, in Grahamstown. During this period, the writer was employed by the South African Council for Higher Education's Grahamstown branch as a part- time English tutor of black and coloured teachers engaged in private study for the Joint Matriculation Board and UNISA. It was under Sached's aegis that the project started, with the writer holding the belief that poor matriculation examination results obtained by blacks were at least partially caused by poor English language communication skills. It was hoped that assistance to black teachers of English as a second language (ESL) at the chosen level (Standards 6, 7 and 8) would be of some help in freeing black students from the necessity of having to achieve academically and linguistically at the same time, in Standards 9 and 10.
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Golledge, Elaine Diana. "Aesthetic scanning: Refining critical thinking through oral language activities." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3231.
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This study examines the use of aesthetics in the art education curriculum as a strategy for building oral language skills and critical thinking skills. In this study reproduced artworks were used to stimulate discussion; students learned to scan paintings using a technique called aesthetic scanning during which they learn how to look at a painting orally through guided questioning by the classroom teacher. It was concluded that providing oral language opportunities through the implementation of the aesthetic scanning program was an effective way to promote oral language skills and critical thinking skills in the kindergarten classroom. Arts, as a core subject can be taught through Disciplined Based Art Education (DBAE). With DBAE all students are given the oppportunity to actively engage in oral language activites as they aesthetically view works of art.
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Helsel, Sandra Kay. "A set of criteria derived from curriculum theory to assist in the planning, use and evaluation of educational interactive videodisc." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184372.
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It was the purpose of this study to develop a set of criteria derived from curriculum theory to assist in the planning, use and evaluation of educational interactive videodisc. That set of criteria, referred to herein as the EIVD Curricular Base, consists of six sets of guidelines corresponding to Eisner's (1985) curriculum typologies: Development of Cognitive Processes, Curriculum as Technology, Curriculum for Personal Relevance, Curriculum for Social Adaptation, Curriculum for Social Reconstruction, and Academic Rationalism. The set of criteria was developed through the examination of three primary research questions: (1) What ways have those elements Beauchamp (1981) deemed necessary for any curriculum theory (definitions, values, design, engineering, and regeneration) been operationalized in Eisner's six curriculum typologies; (2) To what extent do interactive design characteristics identified by DeBloois (1979) apply to curriculum theory; (3) How can the ability of videodisc to simulate reality be integrated into the set of criteria? Further, the proposed set of criteria was critiqued against sample educational videodiscs to establish its veracity. The results of this study indicate that the Cognitive Processes curricular typology utilizes the potential of educational interactive videodisc to a greater extent than any other curricular typology in the EIVD Curricular Base. Therefore, it is recommended that an in-depth exploration of the Cognitive Process set of criteria be initiated. Ideally, the exploration would result in the research, design, production, use and evaluation of an actual videodisc program. Several, more general, recommendations regarding education's use of videodisc technology and courseware complete this study.
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Bobrow, Barbara Creighton. "The impact of a word processor as a tool in the remediation of learning disabled elementary school children /." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63128.
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Farber, Kathleen Hickam. "An Experimental Study of Scotopic Sensitivity Irlen Syndrome in Learning Disabled Students." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1329.
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This study examined the effect on reading performance of a controversial treatment for a dysfunction of visual perception known as Scotopic sensitivity/lrlen Syndrome. The treatment, referred to as spectral modification, involved the use of colored transparent overlays for reading by four elementary school children in their actual school environments. The diagnostic, prescriptive and remediation procedures used in this study were originally developed by Helen Irlen, a California psychologist and researcher. Irlen conceptualized Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome as a difficulty in visual processing of the printed page when perceived through full spectrum light. Spectral modification techniques were considered controversial in that they were employed prior to scientific validation of the syndrome. Previous research used pre-test/post-test experimental designs to test the effect of spectral modification on reading performance. The research problem addressed here was that the technique had not been systematically examined over time in the school setting, and from the practitioner's point of view. Sample selection involved pre-screening and screening phases. The pre-screening procedures of teacher recommendation and file review resulted in a pool of 26 children who were screened with the Irlen Differential Perceptual Interview Survey. Four subjects were selected who were in separate school settings, who demonstrated Irlen Syndrome to a significant extent, and whose profiles did not present variables which would compromise their participation. These four underwent comprehensive vision evaluations as a preliminary assessment procedure. A four-strand single-subject experimental design was used to generate data on subjects' rate and accuracy of oral reading, and comprehension of silent reading. Performance changes during experimental reading trials varied between the four, although three subjects exhibited positive performance change on one indicator. A supporting procedure was that subjects were pre and post-tested on the three performance indicators. Post-test results corroborated the changes demonstrated by three subjects Interview formats were employed to obtain qualitative data from teachers, parents, and the subjects themselves. Recommendations for practitioners intending to implement spectral modification techniques were generated from this data.
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Austin, Dianne Lenore. "Using a teacher created website to provide 24/7 access to student assignments: An abstract." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2792.
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The purpose of this project was to create a website that would assist students in the process of submitting the correct assignments with a minimal amount of frustration for all parties concerned: teachers, administrators, parents, and students.
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Hladik, Amber Elizabeth. "An online community helping left-handed right brained students succeed." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3214.
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The purpose of this project is to develop a website that helps left handed students, their parents, and teachers to help left-handers, whether they are left-or-right-brain dominant, succeed. This website will be a tool to get to know their children and students better. The project consists of a paper and a website to educate about left-handed people.
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Franke, Frederick Ernest. "An analysis of effective instructional techniques used by automotive technology instructors." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1029.
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Weldin, Donna J. "An investigation of portfolio assessment with fifth grade teachers and students : a case study /." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10052007-143617/.
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Decroo, Kenneth Louis. "Creating a student accessible online syllabus." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1737.
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This project addresses how to create an online syllabus that is accessible to students and parents, that empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning while enhancing school/home communication, and serves as a graphic representation of what students have accomplished. Web quests are used as the principle means of instructional delivery to engage middle school students in problem-based projects that address real life situations using rigorous and relevant curricula. Elements of an online syllabus and the content of the course it supports are examined. The role, an online syllabus plays in fulfilling the goals of techno-constructivism, the move from a top down, broadcast model toa decentralized, constructivism model of instructional delivery is addressed.
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Holliday, Susan Ellen. "Technology staff development: Is it effectively designed to increase classroom use of technology?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2106.
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The purpose of this project was to examine the current staff development training program's impact on the integration of technology into the teacher/participants' classroom. This thesis evaluates whether or not training practices were being transitioned to the classroom, which practices need to be added to the training program to increase the implementation of technology into the classrom.
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Console, Nikki Ann. "Teaching strategies for foster care students with behavior problems." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2775.
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The purpose of this study is to research behavior problems of children in foster care and to identify teaching strategies and techniques for teachers who have foster children in their classrooms and experience difficulties working with them. The project examines the types of behavior problems displayed by abused children.
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Faulkner, Christopher G. "Exploring the Relationships Between Faculty Beliefs and Technology Preferences." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799481/.
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All too often faculty are asked to implement technology into their teaching without the knowledge necessary to use the technology effectively. Due to the evolution of technology in everyday settings, students have come to expect to be engaged through technological means. This often creates undue stress on faculty members. The purpose of this study is to investigate technology integration by exploring the relationships between a faculty member’s technology preferences and educational beliefs. Through a mixed method, this study attempts to address the question of why faculty use the types of technology they do. More importantly, this study investigates if a faculty member’s educational beliefs have any influence on the technology they choose to use. Thirty-two medical, clinical, and healthcare faculty members participated in the study. They responded to a Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) survey and a Technology Preferences survey with open-ended questions. Data analysis revealed multiple statistically significant findings between different beliefs and different types of technology. The results indicated that personal epistemic beliefs influence the types of technology faculty use. The technology choices faculty make are largely related to tools they are comfortable with and ones they believe effectively fit their teaching materials. The study also found statistically significant differences between age, gender, and reported technology use. It is suggested faculty development programs should consider faculty members’ educational beliefs and personal preferences when supporting faculty with their uses of technologies.
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Mbambo, Markus S. "The role of teachers' resource centres from the perspective of school managers and teachers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003638.
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This study aimed to investigate the role played by the Teachers’ Resource Centre (TRC) in Namibia in helping schools to provide quality education. The TRC concept began in Britain in the 1960s, where it was introduced as a means of supporting the professional development of teachers and giving them access to a range of educational resources. From the 1970s, the concept was promoted further afield as an effective strategy for dealing with teachers’ needs. TRCs emerged in Namibia in the 1980s under the auspices of the then Department of Education of the South African government. By 1989, only four TRCs were in existence, namely, Katutura, Tsumeb, Otjiwarongo and Rundu, plus one in the whites-only training college in Windhoek. In September 1991, the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) in Namibia produced a five-year plan that led to the diversification of the TRC network in Namibia. Yet, despite the now widespread existence of TRCs, little is known of whether and to what extent their services are helping teachers to provide quality education. This constitutes a gap in the literature that this study hopes in part to fill. The study was conducted using a case study approach in three schools in the Kavango region of Namibia. It made use of questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions and data analysis to gather and interpret data. The study’s finding is that TRCs are indeed beneficial to schools in their vicinity, despite their current limited capacities. However, TRCs should be better able to redress the poor quality of education in many schools due to a lack of resources, de-motivated teachers and other factors. This study therefore recommends that enough funds be made available for the TRCs to acquire the resources they need adequately to support quality educational processes. Furthermore, the study found that it is imperative for individuals in TRCs and schools to learn how to facilitate relevant transformation in their organisations’ efficiency and effectiveness. Thus the study recommends a transformational leadership approach as most appropriate for managing learning and bringing about successful change in these organisations. The significance of this research is that it sheds some light on the effectiveness of TRCs as a strategy for supporting teachers in the delivery of quality teaching. It also suggests potential areas in which stakeholders might usefully cooperate in their endeavours to realise quality education.
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Parrish, Janet Yvonne. "Using the computer to motivate at-risk students as writers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1437.
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Ma, Richard. "Video-based tutorial on web design for the technophobic teacher." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1975.
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The aims of this project hope to trace the factors affecting teachers' use of technology, with a concentration on Internet usage, and offer steps in helping teachers move toward integrating the Internet into their curriculum.
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Riley, Alanna. "The use of Blackboard as a tool for the teaching and assessment of large classes in mathematics education: a case study of second year level Bachelor of Education students in one university in South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006237.
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This study locates the Blackboard Learning Management System as a Technology Enhanced Learning tool within the bounds of the discipline of eLearning and aimed to interrogate the use of Blackboard for the purposes of teaching, learning and assessment in large classes. It is evident from the literature reviewed that changes in both Higher Education in the South Africa with regards to policy and legislation in addition to international shifts towards increased access and participation in a fast paced, ever-evolving knowledge-based economy, providing the context for this work. The theoretical framework for this study is not unidimensional due to the fact that the educational field of eLearning as an area of specialisation draws on a multitude of theories in terms of their utility value for instructional design of courses utilising Information and Communications Technology as a mode of delivery. This study was conducted within the bounds of an interpretivist paradigm as the researcher sought to focus on the use of Blackboard and the experiences of the lecturers and students involved in the implementation thereof. The research design for this study took the form of a case study and a multiple case method was employed. The researcher collected data through personal interviews conducted with participating lecturers, while student data was collected by means of a qualitative survey which was conducted through the Blackboard Learning Management System. The data was analyzed by means of a thematic analysis, consistent with the interpretive paradigm chosen for this study. The findings of this study revealed that Blackboard was utilised effectively in order to facilitate communication, access to course resources and promoted more efficient assessment processes. The implementation was however not without challenges many of which were systemic and focused on the lack of resources available to the students. The implications of using Blackboard for teaching and assessment of large classes include the use of the Learning Management System as part of a multimodal method of course delivery in an effort to reach the multitude of registered students both conceptually as well as electronically. The recommendations arising from this study include consideration on the part of the faculty for a unified approach in the use of Blackboard for communication as well as deployment of resources. Additionally, this study may form the foundation of further studies in this field, with a focus on the active engagement and training of lecturers in order to integrate traditional teaching methods with blended learning opportunities.
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Stapel, Darla Kay Cadman. "Teaching science to English only and limited English proficient students in the elementary classroom." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/968.
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Zhang, Xiangmei. "Authentic materials in English as a Second Language conversation instruction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2526.
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Mbusi, Nokwanda Princess. "An investigation into the use of traditional Xhosa dance to teach mathematics: a case study in a Grade 7 class." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003499.
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This study seeks to explore mathematical concepts embedded in traditional Xhosa dance and how these concepts can be incorporated into a learning programme for the teaching and learning of mathematics. The study seeks to gain insight into whether learners could benefit from the implementation of such a learning programme. Learners from a Grade 7 class in a rural school performed traditional Xhosa dances and their performances were captured through video recording. The video recordings were then observed and analysed to determine the mathematical concepts embedded in the dances. These concepts were then linked to those found in the Grade 7 mathematics curriculum. A learning programme integrating mathematical concepts from the dance activities with mathematical concepts from the Grade 7 curriculum was then designed. The learning programme contained mathematical problem solving activities that required learners to re-enact the dance performances in order to find the required solutions. The learning programme was then implemented with the learners over a period of three weeks. During the implementation, learners’ behaviour towards the learning experience was observed, their engagement with the problem solving activities as well as their strategies for solving the problems, were carefully observed. Also, their interactions with each other were noted. After the implementation of the learning programme, focus group interviews were held with learners to determine their opinions, attitudes and feelings about their experience of learning mathematics through traditional Xhosa dance. Key findings indicated that traditional Xhosa dance can be used as a medium for learning many concepts in the mathematics curriculum; the use of the dance gave learners an opportunity to learn mathematics from a familiar context and to participate actively and collaboratively in their learning. Also, it emerged that the use of dance to teach mathematics had potential to help improve learners’ attitudes towards mathematics. Conclusions were reached that the dance had potential for use as a means for the meaningful learning of mathematics. However, limitations and challenges with the study were identified, such as its limited replicability in other mathematics classrooms.
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Mankowski, Andrew James. "Do "Clickers" Improve Student Engagement and Learning in Secondary Schools?" PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/144.
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There is a need in classrooms to engage students and maintain their interest in course content. A recent type of interactive technology, known as a "clicker," has shown potential to increase student engagement, performance, and participation in the classroom when used effectively. Peer instruction, a type of student to student interaction in which pairs or small groups of students discuss their answers to questions before responding, is often used in conjunction with clickers, and may account for the perceived effectiveness of these tools. The purpose of this study is to determine the clicker's effectiveness in increasing learning and increasing student engagement in secondary classrooms, while controlling for their use during peer instruction. Two classrooms were examined (n ~ 15 for each classroom) in which 1 classroom used clickers integrated with peer instruction activities, while the other classroom only did the peer instruction activities. The findings of this study showed no significant difference in student learning, a small increase in student engagement, and a positive student reaction to the clicker's potential and use in the classroom.
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Flores, Vega Rishelline Anne. "Effects of using educational robotics at the elementary school level." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3059.
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