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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Class Observation"”.
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Using Authentic Materials to Develop Listening Comprehension in the English as a Second Language Classroom
… language instruction. Nevertheless, U.S. college classrooms, where comprehensive listening serves as a primary channel for learning, require that students function effectively as listeners. It is therefore important for ESL programs to prepare students for successful listening in academic lectures …
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Novel Instance-Level Weighted Loss Function for Imbalanced Learning
Binary classification using imbalanced datasets remains a challenge. Typically, supervised learning algorithms minimize the binary cross-entropy objective function to determine the final parameter estimates. This objective function assumes an equal class distribution between the minority (i.e. …
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The role of interest in first-year composition
… and this data includes surveys, interviews, class observation field notes, and course documents. Ultimately, the findings from this study are developed into a model of student interest in first-year composition, with enjoyment, engagement, inquiry, interactions, and helpfulness as defining …
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A descriptive survey of two Québec multimedia art education courses
… methods: interviews, questionnaire, and observation. Drawing on the literature and the interviews, a relationship between the new technologies and postmodern theories is established. A description of two undergraduate art education courses with multimedia content is presented, using …
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Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
… I then carried out qualitative interviews and class observation of Soviet- Canadian competitive ballroom dancers at three studios in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. The research conducted for this dissertation revealed various cultural adaptation strategies applied by these dancers, resulting in …
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The Effectiveness of School-Based In-Service Training for Primary School Teachers (INSET-PST) in Enhancing Teacher Professional Development: A Case study of Bagamoyo District
… in-depth interviews, focussed group discussions, class observation and documentary analysis. The study involved a total of 81 respondents including 75 teachers, 05 head teachers and 01 District education officer. Five primary schools out of 21 were sampled. The findings of the study have revealed …
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Investigating Teachers' Perspectives on the Impact of the Lesson Study Process on Their Mathematical Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge, and the Potential for Student Achievement
… state‘s curriculum, shifting the focus of an in-class observation from the teacher‘s performance to student thinking, and a similar shifting of the manner in which students are assessed—from right/wrong answers to seeking thought processes whereby the student may correct misunderstanding.
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Construction de compétence dans l'approche coopérative par des enseignants en formation initiale à travers des conversations de supervision
… planning and for activity adjustment after in-class observation. As a result, I was able to highlight those elements of the learning environment and the mechanisms and relationships which contribute to or hinder the learning process. The cooperative learning approach was selected for the study …
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Exploring the strategies used by grade 6 teachers in the teaching of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Ngwelezane Circuit schools
… through the use of survey questionnaires, in-class observation, interviews and document analysis. The study sample comprised of five Intermediate Phase teachers per school. The findings revealed that telling method, text book and question and answer are dominating in the classes as lessons …
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The effects of a goal-oriented syllabus on college-bound English as a second language (ESL) students
… students enrolled in a Low Intermediate writing class at a mid-sized university's English language institute. Thirteen students were randomly assigned to an experimental group and twelve students to a control group. The experimental group was four males and nine females with the average age of …
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Initial reading performance in Cicewa In Multi-Ethnic Classes: A case of selected basic schools in Chipata urban
… through End of Term Test, Interviews and class observation. The key informants included: teachers, Head teachers and the Chipata District Education Board Secretary(DEBS). Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to collect data. Interviews and observations were conducted to …
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Initial reading performance in Cicewa In Multi-Ethnic Classes: A case of selected basic schools in Chipata urban
… through End of Term Test, Interviews and class observation. The key informants included: teachers, Head teachers and the Chipata District Education Board Secretary(DEBS). Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to collect data. Interviews and observations were conducted to …
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Negotiations and Challenges in Creating a Digital Story: The Experience of Graduate Students
… Digital Storytelling is incorporated into the classroom. Methodologically, the inquiry for this dissertation closely followed three graduate students in their digital story projects in the setting of two linked courses. One focuses on hands-on multimedia technology and the other on the …
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Constructing L3 selves: A study of undergraduate learners' motivation to learn a third language in China
… course of one year of learning an L3 and whether classroom intervention could help learners to construct their L3 motivation. This research adopted a longitudinal case study design and was situated in a state university in China. Students who had chosen to learn an L3 as their major and English …
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A JAPANESE COLT: ANALYZING TEACHING PERFORMANCE IN A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICUM
… of this study were to create a systematic observation instrument in order to obtain clearer and more specific feedback from junior high school teachers about student teachers' teaching performances during their practicum, and to provide a way for junior college, university teachers, student …