It is widely assumed that instruction plays a role in learning and in transfer. The present studies examine how type of instruction (containing principle-based vs. procedure-based information) influences learning and transfer in a mathematical concept. In the first study, both types of instruction led a comparable number of children to learn, but principle-based instruction led significantly mo...

This pilot study aimed to investigate the effects of two classroom instructions on complexity, accuracy, and fluency EFL learners’ speaking. The first one involved implicit task-based instruction with meaning-focused pedagogic tasks. second reduced practice time but complemented it explicit strategy-based (SBI) raise their metacognitive awareness in planning, monitoring, evaluating speech. Part...

Shared responsibilities such as mentoring, instruction, learner monitoring and classroom management enable the peers to observe, review, reflect on and learn from the overall practical professional expertise of one another through collegial instruction experience. The present exploratory case study has The present exploratory case study has attempted to study collegial teaching as an innovative...

The author describes factors facilitating web-based instruction in library and information science; advantages and limitations, an overview of web-based instruction in library and information science in Thailand in the case of a distance education university, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU). Implications of web-based instruction to the library and information science program are i...

Task-based language Teaching (TBLT) has occupied the pertinent literature for some long years. However, the role of specific task type in developing specific skill type seems to be amongst the intact issues in the literature. To shed more light on this issue, the present study was conducted to compare the effect of jigsaw and decision-making tasks on improving listening and speaking abilities o...

Strategy instruction (SI) and strategy-based writing (SBI) in English recent years have obtained great attention for having considerable educational evaluation usefulness. Studies on how strategic teaching improves students’ ability were limited, resulting significant gaps the declarative procedural knowledge of among university freshmen. To address this gap, study was conducted to examine effe...

We studied how physical and instructed embedding of features in gestalts affects perceptual selection. Four ovals on the horizontal midline were either unconnected or pairwise connected by circles, forming ears of left and right heads (gestalts). Relevant to responding was the position of one colored oval, either within its pair or relative to fixation ("object-based" or "fixation-based" instru...

Increasing instruction time in school is a central element in the attempts of many governments to improve student learning, but prior research-mainly based on observational data-disputes the effect of this approach and points out the potential negative effects on student behavior. Based on a large-scale, cluster-randomized trial, we find that increasing instruction time increases student learni...

This study implemented a three-stage problem-based estimation instruction scenario and combined it with mobile technology to provide elementary teachers with an effective e-tool for observing student estimation and leading effective class or group discussions on the selection and assessment of appropriate strategies for solving daily estimation problems. Twenty-eight fourth graders were randoml...