Interpretation of symbols, as well as understanding the particulate nature of matter and spatial structures, are essential skills students need for solving problems in chemistry. However, model perception and understanding the spatial structure of organic molecules has been a source of difficulty for many chemistry students. The research objective was to investigate the effect of using virtual ...

We collected data at a large, very selective public university on what math and science instructors felt was the biggest barrier to their students’ learning. We also determined the extent of each instructor’s use of research-based effective teaching methods. Instructors using fewer effective methods were more likely to say the greatest barrier to student learning was the internal deficiencies o...

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required. Source URL: https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/node/55395 Links [1] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/anton-bogdanovych [2] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/marc-esteva [3] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/sta...

The 1980s witnessed the widespread introduction of microcomputer technology into educational institutions and the workplace. Microcomputer software training has achieved mixed results due to both training methods and individual factors, such as computer anxiety. The present research addresses the topic of software training by presenting the results of two studies. The first study validates a me...

Two methods for teaching drug calculation were compared—one using traditional formulabased teaching methods, the other building on students’ existing mathematical problemsolving skills. On the basis of quantitative measures, the formula-based approach appeared more effective. However, students’ interview responses revealed that the learning experiences of the two student groups were quite diffe...

Italian speakers tend to stress the second component of German morphologically complex words such as compounds and prefix verbs even if the first component is lexically stressed. To improve their prosodic phrasing an automatic pronunciation teaching method was developed based on auditory feedback of prosodically corrected utterances in the learners’ own voices. Basically, the method copies cont...

It describes how, at Lankhills, a residential special school in Hampshire, teaching methods are selected according to the principle that mental activity should result in further activity both abstract and appliedThe schemes of work not only carry into practice Spearman's principle of " noegenesis but any work is rejected if, in spite of superficially satisfactory results, it fails to satisfy th...

The Internet represents a wonderful opportunity to modify the teaching methods, and to redefine our notions of education. The aim of this paper is to present our teaching project, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), which studies the use of the “Net ” and its resources to develop a learning environment. We have involved a classroom (sixteen students, aged 16-17) of a technical institute in It...

Vocational degree earners represent a major portion of the work force in Taiwan. However, the reality of computing education in Taiwan’s vocational schools is that it’s not so practically oriented, revealing much room for improvement. In this context, we conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of applying web-based self-regulated learning, web-based problem-based learning with initi...

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required.