Teaching Apology Formulas at the Discourse Level: Are Instructional Effects Maintained over Time?

The Effects of Instructional Simulation Use on Teaching and

This article describes a case study of how a simulation used in an Audiology course changed the way the instructor taught and how students learned. We combined the perspectives of West & Graham[1] and Roschelle, et al[2] as a framework to analyze the data. We found that in at least some ways use of the simulation improved: the students’ ability to visualize procedures and concepts, the quality ...

Are Just-In-Time Lectures Effective At Teaching?

A ‘‘Just-In-Time Lecture’’ is a low-cost, flexible technology for creating and presenting educational material to groups and individuals. A review of learning concepts and education research supports the notion that Just-In-Time Lecture technology should be as effective as traditional classroom instruction. This finding is based on (1) a large body of research on related technologies, including...

A Situative Analysis of the Relationship between Faculty Beliefs and Teaching Practice: Implications for Instructional Improvement at the Postsecondary Level

Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for noncommercial purposes by any means, provided that the above copyright notice appears on all copies. Any opinions, findings, or conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies, WCER, or cooperating institutions. A long-standing question in education is to what degre...

the effects of multiple intelligences (focus on musical, visual, and linguistic) and direct instruction on learning grammar: a case on iranian efl students at elementary level

1.0 overview it seems that grammar plays a crucial role in the area of second and foreign language learning and widely has been acknowledged in grammar research. in other words, teaching grammar is an issue which has attracted much attention to itself, and a lot of teachers argue about the existence of grammar in language teaching and learning. this issue will remind us a famous sentence f...

Apology legislation: the time has come.