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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"learning gains"”.
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Peer-Led Team Learning: The Effect of Peer Leader and Student Interactions on Student Learning Gains and Course Achievement in Introductory Biology
… to connect the literature on Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) to the work on student-teacher interactions as well as STEM role models. Student and peer leader interactions were explored to determine the effect of these interactions on student learning outcomes. Students and their peer leaders …
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Effective Tutoring with Empathic Embodied Conversational Agents
… with an empathic ETS results in greater learning gains than a neutral ETS, primarily by encouraging positive and reducing negative student emotions using empathic feedback. In a preparatory study we investigated different strategies for expressing emotion by the ETS. We established that a …
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Comparing Effectiveness and Perceived Characteristics of Active Learning Methods in Undergraduate Biology Education
… research and near consensus that active learning is more effective than lecture, there are many types of active learning and the literature indicates their effects are not equivalent. The purpose of the current study was to directly compare different kinds of active learning by assessing …
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Learning opportunities and outcomes of L2-L2 and L2-HL learner interaction during a collaborative writing task
… learners with optimal opportunities for language learning. Specifically, exchanges in which interactants turn their attention to certain linguistic targets within meaningful interaction, called form-focused episodes (FFEs), are believed to promote language learning. A growing body of research on …
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Designing an experimental platform for a split-classroom comparison study
… area. We evaluated the LabLibs and WordBytes on learning gains, completion rates, and student engagement. Preliminary data reveals no significant difference in learning gains between the two formats. However, completion rates of questions in the LabLib and WordBytes format were higher than that …
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Learning to Program From Interactive Example Code (With and Without Intentional Bugs)
Computing education for learning to program has made great strides in the current century. Exciting educational technologies are now available and active learning pedagogies are increasingly used. Interest is strong, but the longstanding problem remains: learning to program as an analytical …
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Embedding formative assessment in the writing curriculum
… of using formative assessment to enhance pupil learning in writing. Teachers were presented with a cognitive resource comprising formative assessment principles, strategies and techniques. They were asked to integrate this with existing practice in teaching and assessing writing and to reflect …
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Impact of Collaborative Specialization On 5th Grade Student Achievement in a Title I School: Program Evaluation Proposal
… it increased the number of students making learning gains and decreased disciplinary problems.</p>
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An Exploratory Comparison of a Traditional and an Adaptive Instructional Approach for College Algebra
This research effort compared student learning gains and attitudinal changes through the implementation of two varying instructional approaches on the topic of functions in College Algebra. Attitudinal changes were measured based on the Attitude Towards Mathematics Inventory (ATMI). The ATMI also …
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Lunch Tutoring in One High School’s Regular Daily Schedule: A Policy Advocacy Document.
… steps for reconfiguring a school culture as a learning community that values the potential of student and teacher school day time for effective, beyond the classroom, academic support. Stakeholders efficiently leverage all available time for highly engaged, innovative learning in a variety of …
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Development and analysis of educational technologies for a blended organic chemistry course
… and evaluated using the Student Assessment of Learning Gains survey, and data from the activities were analyzed using quantitative methods of statistics and social network analysis methods. Findings from this work suggest that small-scale educational technologies provide significant learning …
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Exam preparation learning
This thesis investigates student learning through practice exams. A series of experiments were conducted using a web-based platform that provided students with an organized structure to study past exam problems. We establish the learning obtained from doing these practice exams (Chapter 1) and then …
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The Impact of Reading Intervention on Retained Elementary-Age Students
… retained third grade students resulting in learning gains. My data showed t-test findings with a statistically significant difference in both scale scores and achievement levels on the state reading assessment.</p> <p>My recommended policy change provides elementary students with a …
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Single Gender Programming in a High School Setting: A program Evaluation Project.
… available time for highly engaged, innovative learning in a variety of interconnected contexts as a means for improving student-learning gains. This research project investigates deeper into how student academic achievement can be enhanced and by so doing, reduce disciplinary problems or see if …
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Using machine learning methods to aid scientists in laboratory environments
As machine learning gains popularity as a scientific instrument, we look to create methods to implement it as a laboratory tool for researchers. In the first of two projects, we discuss creating a real-time interference monitor for use at a radio observatory. We show how deep neural networks can be …
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Scaffolding Early Engineers' Design Learning with a Videogame: Investigating the Influence of Minecraft as a Platform for Design Ideation
… was used to assist early engineering students' learning the design process. More specifically, a designed-based research approach was employed utilizing a concurrent mixed methods to investigate the use of Minecraft for learning about the concept generation stage of design. Survey instruments …
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Blended Learning and Educational Technology: Using An Online-Digital Curriculum To Support Student Learning
… with a digital curriculum and guidance in blendedlearning pedagogy through the XYZ Internal University. This may be due, in part, to the evolving culture in many schools, as well as teacher competencies and self-efficacy in using the technology. Given the potential for significant student learning …
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PAIR INTERACTION IN SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS THAT ENROLL HERITAGE AND L2 LEARNERS
… occurred only in HL-HL dyads. With regards to learning gains, results revealed that six participants obtained high scores in all tests and did not show a score change from pretest to delayed posttest. Five of these participants were identified as HL learners. However, data also showed that 16 …
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Evaluation of the project management training course @ IMS Health Canada
… reactions to the training course (Level I), learning gains from the training (Level II) and behavior change, regarding the degree to which participants applied what they learned to their job performance (Level III). Evaluation data were gathered from all past participants in the training …
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A Metaevaluation of An Evaluation of A Second Language Course
… practices to promote optimal second language learning gains. Through the evaluation, strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum were identified so that these issues could be addressed during curriculum development. This metaevaluation identifies strengths and weaknesses of the intermediate …
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