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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Engagement and learning"”.
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When School Fits Me: The Role of Regulatory Fit in Academic Engagement and Learning
… 2000) between students' goals or beliefs and the message conveyed by academic tasks increases engagement and learning. Given past research (Rodriguez, Romero-Canyas, Downey, Mangels & Higgins, 2011) showing that fit between beliefs about the interdependence of the self and task framing led …
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Improving Children's Engagement and Learning Through Free -Flowing Discussions: Impact of Collaborative Reasoning Discussion
… Collaborative Reasoning Discussion condition and Conventional Discussion condition outperformed children in the No Discussion condition in the quality of essays written at the end of the study, including produced number of words, number of relevant arguments, number of counterarguments, and …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Student Engagement and Learning in a University-Based Social Venture Plan Competition
… higher education because of the belief that more and better social ventures can help address “wicked” social problems. Students have been offered guidance and cash awards to launch or expand social ventures, resulting in a few highly publicized success stories. Designed as a learning-by-doing …
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Webquest Design Strategies: A Case Study Measuring the Effect of the Jigsaw Method on Students’ Personal Agency Beliefs, Engagement, and Learning
… popularity, with teachers from around the world and many teacher-educators and experts in the field of educational technology espousing its potential to extend content knowledge and promote higher level thinking. While the model is well received by teachers and students alike, most evidence of …
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Using Song Lyrics In Teaching An Undergraduate Statistics Course
… techniques in order to enhance student engagement and learning. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to develop a deeper understanding of the lived educational experiences of Millennials enrolled in an introductory statistics course when song lyrics were used as an …
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The impact of video as a self-reflective tool for improvement of teacher feedback practices
… instructional practices can improve performance and positively influence student achievement. This qualitative quasi-ethnographic study investigated the impact of self-tracking video technology as a reflective tool for improvement of teacher feedback in a specialist primary classroom. Video …
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STUDENT EXPERIENCE WITH A TEACHER-DESIGNED DISCUSSION PROTOCOL
… of 21 students, 13 of which were female and 8 of which were male. Throughout the course of the study, the students participated in six literature discussions using the teacher-designed protocol. After the first, third, and sixth protocol, students responded to an open-ended question …
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The perceived benefits of structured simulation sessions on the development of critical thinking for nursing students
BACKGROUND The education of New Zealand (NZ) nurses has changed rapidly over the last four decades to address the changing role of the New Zealand registered nurse (RN). One of the most significant changes in nursing education is the use of high fidelity simulation in clinical education Structured …
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Video cued teacher reflection to guide enhancement of student engagement in a specialist primary classroom
… the challenging task of teaching extensive learning content of the Western Australian Curriculum, within limited weekly timetabled lessons. This was the motivating factor behind this study aimed at investigating the use of self-tracking video technology as a tool for teacher reflection, to …
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Female undergraduate student perceptions of their engagement in an experiential learning activity
… Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment grounded in a learning-outcomes-based curriculum as a vehicle for student engagement and learning. This study explores the demographics of participants and the perception of learning that occurred within the context of engagement in experiential learning …
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Multimodal game-based learning in Post-Secondary Education
… given a unique opportunity to enhance classroom engagement. That opportunity is multimodal game-based learning (MGBL): classroom instruction through a combination of games and multiple modalities of information. Using today’s 3D systems and virtual reality tools, this concept can be explored to …
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Student engagement in game-based learning : a literature review
… student-centered strategies. Game-based learning is not a new concept and has been adopted in both private and public schools. Although previous studies found that game-based learning is a sound strategy to engage learners, further research is needed to understand how engagement can …
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Expanding Annotation to Mixed-Media Types in a Large-Scale Social Annotation Platform
… social annotation systems have become a popular and effective tool for hosting collaborative discussions on assigned readings. One such tool created by our lab is NB. Over the last twelve years, hundreds of instructors have incorporated NB within their classes, with over 50,000 students leaving …
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PictureBlocks : constructing and deconstructing picture-driven literacy development
… instructionst manner - such as a flashcard, drag-and-drop, or fill-in-the-blanks approach. However, research indicates that following a constructionist approach rather than instructionst, where children actively construct meaningful projects playfully, leads to better engagement and learning. It …
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Using game design elements in Moodle to enhance student engagement at a Mozambican University
… but are also posing challenges for teachers and students within universities. The introduction of technologies such as Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and the entrance of digital natives into universities are contributing to the rapid integration of innovative educational practices, such …
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Exploring the practice of supporting early childhood students’ numeracy skills through collaborative learning in working group activities
Collaborative learning has been increasingly recognized as an optimal pedagogical strategy to support early numeracy development. This study explores the application of collaborative learning in early numeracy education at the kindergarten level in Indonesia an area that remains relatively …
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Designing Social Micro-Learning Interventions for Blended Learning Scenarios in Higher Education: Mixed Methods Case Study at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences
… thesis explores the role of social micro-learning in enhancing blended learning within higher education. Addressing the shift towards digital and competency-based teaching, the main research question was formulated as follows: “How valuable is it for higher education to support blended …
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The Learning Trip: Using the Museum Field Trip Experiece as a Teaching Resource to Enhance Curriculum and Student Engagement
… to use state-adopted texts, approved materials and methods in order to facilitate learning. The creativity of designing a lesson plan that meets the needs of each student, while fostering the imagination and creativity, can be all but lost when constrained by such parameters.</p> <p>So what can …
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Differentiated instruction in a Seventh-day Adventist primary Sabbath school classroom : a mixed methods action research study
… research (MMAR) study explored the experiences and perceptions of both the teacher and students regarding differentiated instruction (DI) in a children's Sabbath school classroom at a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church in the Midwestern United States. Guided by Tomlinson's DI framework, the …
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Valuing waste and wasting value: rethinking planning with informality by learning from skarrelers in Cape Town's Southern Suburbs
… 'captive to an inclusionary view of society' and to the assumed value that public participation automatically confers on development outcomes. In the global South however, the extreme diversity of people and activities coupled with 'advanced marginality', perhaps inspires different …
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