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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Student Comprehension"”.
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Integrating Multimedia in Technology Education to Improve College Student Comprehension, Problem-solving Skills, and Attitudes Toward Instructional Effectiveness.
… lecture on selected technology education students' comprehension, performance, and attitudes toward instructional effectiveness, the researcher used a variation of the nonequivalent control group design. The experimentally accessible population for this study was undergraduate students …
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Infusing music in an academic curriculum
… research was to examine the effects of music on student comprehension, cooperative learning and the surrounding learning community. This study was conducted within a third grade inclusion classroom. The students were exposed to educational songs in mathematics, writing and science. The students …
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Partner Reading: A Constructivist Based Approach to Developing Reading Skills in the Elementary Grades
… partner reading can elicit a high level of comprehension of text while utilizing a style of learning that is natural for young children. A comparison between the partner reading technique and the traditional basal reading method on student comprehension was studied. Twenty-three second grade …
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Teaching to Think & Read Like a Historian
… literacy framework could impact adolescent comprehension in the content area of social studies. I collected qualitative data by recording interviews with five high school social studies teachers, while also analyzing the school’s curriculum and its integration of literacy. Several findings …
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The Power of Discussion on Students' Comprehension
… with their children, parents will increase the comprehension of their children. Through the use of short stories from three different genre and comprehension quizzes I will test this research to determine if stories were better understood. This study showed a trend toward improved student …
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Music History and Culture: a Suggested Method of Presenting Music History At the High School Level
… outside of music with the purpose of helping students gain a better understanding of the culture and related events surrounding a period of art music. The suggested lesson plans are intended to open the musical arena to include non-musical elements in order to deepen student comprehension of …
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Effectiveness of the QAR Reading Strategy on Science Reading
… (QAR) is a reading strategy that guides student comprehension by allowing the student to demonstrate their ability to determine importance, make inferences, and monitor comprehension through questions. The study was conducted on high school students in physical science to determine if the …
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The effect of learning centers and interactive bulletin boards on student vocabulary word knowledge
… the effect of different vocabulary strategies on student comprehension. A main focus of the research is to determine the impact of learning centers and interactive bulletin boards in helping students develop word knowledge in the subject area of social studies. This study takes place in a fourth …
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An Assessment of the Practices And Strategies that Contribute to the Success of High School Service-Learning Programs
… of experiential learning that positively impacts students. Studies have supported academic and inter-personal growth as a result of student involvement in an organized service-learning program. While some educators report that student participation is all that is required, this research …
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The Effectiveness Of Manipulatives In A High School Algebra II Class
… instruction. The participants in this study are students from six high school Algebra II classes -two honors classes, and four standard classes. One honors class and two standard classes were randomly selected as the treatment groups receiving CRA instruction. The other three classes learned …
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The Influence of Visualization on Fifth Grade Students' Comprehension
… to see what effect teaching fifth grade students techniques on how to visualize before they read would have on their comprehension. Twenty fifth-grade students from a heterogeneous elementary class in a suburb of Western New York were part of the study. Each student was given an …
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Implementing literature circles in a fourth grade classroom
… looked at the effects on twenty-one fourth grade students' levels of comprehension, engagement, and writing when literature circles were implemented while reading the novel <em>Jacob's Rescue</em>, by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin. The participants, twelve female and nine male, live in a …
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An exploratory investigation into the outcomes of the integration of language arts and social studies lessons
… two subjects in a way that was engaging to my students. This study involves 23 fourth grade students and took place over a one week period. The intervention involved replacing the students' social studies textbook with multiple pieces of literature. Group work, activity centers, leveled reading …
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The effects on student understanding when questioning techniques are used during the reading of informational text
<p>If students are taught strategies to use when they come across informational texts, then they will be able to apply this information when they come across complex texts. Students not only need to be aware of the strategies, but they need to have the metacognitive ability of when to use the best …
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Technological and Engineering Design Based Learning: Supporting Graphical Device Comprehension Instruction at the Upper Elementary School Level
… DBL) challenge as a strategy for facilitating student comprehension of nonfiction/informational text inclusive of graphical devices. The data for this mixed methods exploratory case study were collected using a variety of instruments which assessed the prior knowledge, general graphical device …
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Sources Of Missed Understanding: A Framework For Diagnosing Comprehension Breakdown
… construct) would be used by teachers to diagnose students’ reading comprehension challenges during authentic reading instruction, and to understand the context and supports teachers needed to use the tool effectively. A design experiment methodology was used to follow the diagnostic processes of …
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Mathematical comprehension facilitated by situation models: Learning opportunities for inverse relations in elementary school
… curriculum and instruction, has resulted in students being faced with more cognitively high-demanding tasks which involve forming connections within and between fundamental mathematical concepts. Because mathematical comprehension generally relates back to one’s ability to form connections to …
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EBook Exploration: How EBooks Support Emergent Literacy
… young children, how eBooks motivate or engage students to read and write and how they support students’ decoding and comprehension skills through a home-based qualitative active inquiry. This study took place during hour long tutoring sessions held twice per week with two elementary aged …
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The effects of semantic textual cues vs. semantic contextual cues on recall measures of listening comprehension in second semester college Spanish
… materials to bridge the gap between the student's present level o proficiency in a target language and the level of proficiency required to perform a listening comprehension task in that language. This study also tested for interaction between the use of the textual and contextual …
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Effect of assertion headings and expandable examples in online engineering textbooks on student performance and satisfaction
… instructional modules to present content to students outside of class time. As the use of these online resources expands, research about the effective use and production of these resources should grow in tandem. Little research has focused on how textbook designs affect students’ learning in …
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