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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Group activities"”.
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A conversation centric approach to understanding and supporting the coordination of social group-activities
… email, twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc., many people still routinely find coordinating activities with our friends to be a very frustrating experience. Everyone, has at least once, encountered the difficulties involved with deciding what to do as a group. …
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Exploring the practice of supporting early childhood students’ numeracy skills through collaborative learning in working group activities
… and purposeful interaction within student group work can foster the successful accomplishment of numeracy tasks. Conversely, minimal collaboration in groups tends to result suboptimal numeracy outcomes, as seen in numbered LEGO sequence the result of student work was failed to follow number …
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Utilizing Different Instructional Formats in a Web-Based Distance Learning Program About Leisure Service Delivery
… of two instructional strategies, discussion groups and multiple-formatted content, on participants' declarative knowledge and self-efficacy were examined. The moderating role of cognitive learning style, experience with technology, technology self-efficacy, and several individual …
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Morning meetings and how they create a community in the classroom
… a community in the classroom, particularly which activities are most effective and how students respond to daily morning meetings. For the first twenty minutes of the morning, the students participated in a daily morning meeting. The students greeted one another, had the opportunity to share, …
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Ryhmäkoko ja pienryhmätoiminta taaperoiden päiväkotihoidossa : varhaiskasvatuksen työntekijöiden ja vanhempien käsityksiä ryhmien muodostamisen perusteista
Small group size is considered to be the best option for groups of children under three years old. More and more children in day care centers also spend time in small groups. Small group activities are seen as a structural solution of the challenges the large daycare groups face. The new Early …
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Collaborative examinations in asyncronous learning networks : field experiments on collaborative learning through online assessments
… various phases of the exam process through small group activities online. A participatory online exam process is designed featuring similar procedures except that students' involvement in each phase of the exam is individual. The collaborative online exam and the participatory online exam are …
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When Adults Talk in Circles: Book Groups and Contemporary Reading Practices
… to articulate the otherwise nebulous aspects of group reading, offers vocabulary for describing book group activities thereby enabling real rather than stereotypical representations on which to base expectations for club outcomes, extends reader response theory, and has professional implications …
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Effect of cooperative structure of small-group online activities on student satisfaction, benefits and use in distance education and an exploration of online strategies
… objective is to improve the design of small-group online activities in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) distance education (DE) environments. Participants were volunteers drawn from an undergraduate education course, $n=38.$ Drawing on cooperative learning techniques, students …
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Environmental and related interest groups in South Africa
… undertaken to provide information on interest groups or voluntary organisations which involve themselves in environmental conservation. The primary aim was to identify and list all those groups which together make up the environmental lobby in South Africa. Further aims were to determine the …
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Services for activities in group editing 'sage'
… in this thesis investigates the needs of a group of people working cooperatively in an OSI environment, and recommends tools and services to meet these needs. The project looks specifically at Services for Activities in Group Editing, and is identified as the `SAGE' project. The project uses …
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Assessing an Intergenerational Horticulture Therapy Program for Elderly Adults and Preschool Children
… The program was set up to compare independent group activities with intergenerational activities. A group of elderly adults in the University Adult Day Service and a group of preschool children in the University Child Development Laboratory School took part in both separate age group and …
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The effects of social skills training to improve peer acceptance for students with disabilities
… skills training and social integration in play activities to facilitate the social competence and peer acceptance of students with multiple disabilities mainstreamed for non-academic subjects. Ten 3rd and 5th grade students with disabilities and 60 non-disabled 3rd graders participated in this …
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Generating group agreement in cooperative computer-mediated groups: Towards an integrative model of group interaction
… of generating agreement in computer-mediated groups. The key entities of group interaction are proposed to be the task, the other individuals, and the group. Extending this three way categorisation across the input-process-output framework suggests an integrative model with three processes …
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Mathematical Identity and the Use of High-Leverage Thinking Moves During Problem-Solving Activities
… and thinking moves during problem-solving activities. Within the primary framework, one secondary framework was used to investigate mathematical identities though two lenses: (1) current identities, which are identities in the form of stories, generally told in the present tense, about the …
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Students' Learning Approaches and Their Understanding of Some Chemical Concepts in Eighth-Grade Science
… students' discourse and actions during the group activities and their interview responses revealed differences between the deep and surface learning approaches regarding generative thinking, nature of explanations, asking questions, metacognitive activity, and approach to tasks. Strategies …
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Transfer of emergent leadership from collaborative discussions to collaborative problem solving
… the social skills they have learned from one group activity to another? By using the approach of Collaborative Reasoning (CR) discussion and Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS), this study examined the transfer of children’s emergent leadership skills across these two different group …
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Students’ perceptions of two active learning strategies in a higher-level CS course: Think-pair-share vs POGIL
… both POGIL and another active learning strategy (group activities loosely based on think-pair-share) in a higher-level CS course taught in the same semester. Our results from quantitative analysis of student surveys demonstrate that POGIL is effective in reducing students’ perceptions of …
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Breaking Down Stereotypes: A Look at the Performance of Self-Identity Within the Furry Community
… Through an ethnographic study of a local furry group, I discovered that this portrait of the group is misleading. The existential sociology and symbolic interactionist perspectives allows us to see, furries as people who use their personal, social, and cultural resources to develop their …
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Building a professional learning community
… of the current school culture through small group and individual interviews, a survey, and an examination of the most recent standardized test scores. The researcher involved the entire staff in the creation of a shared mission statement as well as a shared vision statement to form the …
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