Based on developments in educational psychology from the late 1980s, the authors present a model of an approach to teaching. Students' learning processes were analyzed to determine teacher functions. The learning-oriented teaching (LOT) model aims at following and guiding the learning process. The main characteristics of the model are (1) the components of learning: cognition (what to learn), a...

SOME school people are ignoring the existence of teaching machines. Some are probably waiting impatiently for communication experts, psychologists, philanthropists and others to design and install perfectly operating machine in struction in their schools. However, most educational leaders are demanding thor ough study first and much subsequent research in school settings to ascertain the best u...

The concept of reinforcement is identical to the presentation of a reward. The present study deals with the importance of reinforcement in teaching-learning process. The data has been collected from five schools in Bongaon Municipal Area, North 24 Pgs, West Bengal, India. A total of hundred (100) students of class – IX were taken who had been equally divided into experimental groups and control...

This meta-analysis summarizes teaching effectiveness studies of the past decade and investigates the role of theory and research design in disentangling results. Compared to past analyses based on the process–product model, a framework based on cognitive models of teaching and learning proved useful in analyzing studies and accounting for variations in effect sizes. Although the effects of teac...