Assessments at the start and at the end of the courses concluded that whilst there was a significant improvement in knowledge, the candidates would have been expected to have some form of increased knowledge regardless of the instruction material; the impact of the comic book on learning could not be isolated from the rest of the course content.
They found that explicit epistemological discussions incorporated into instruction, adaptation of peer instruction materials, and the use of epistemologically modified interactive lecture demonstrations not only yielded strong gains on conceptual tests, but also produced unprecedented gains on epistemological surveys rather than the traditional losses.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a Computer-assisted Instruction Material (CAIM) related to "photosynthesis" topic on student cognitive development, misconceptions and attitudes.
"Replication as franchising assumes that educational improvement is a narrowly technical process that entails creating the right mix of curriculum, instruction, materials, and facilities and then reproducing this special sauce elsewhere".
Computer-assisted instruction (CAI), a program of instructional material presented by means of a computer or computer systems.
Further, in the aforementioned studies, advice was mostly transferred through the use of paper or in the form of books or instruction materials.
As a fourth-grade teacher in East Harlem, I know my students deserve the highest level of instruction and materials but often don't get it.
Respondents reporting that their education/training consisted of any combination of verbal instruction, printed reading material, material from the internet or DVD/video, but without 'one-to-one physical training', were deemed to have not received preoperative PFMT.
We observed that school heads and teachers feel hampered by lack of resources to support instruction – from instructional materials to trained teachers – and schools struggle to maintain the physical plant.
These questionnaires are central to the analysis of results in terms of a range of student and school characteristics from students' economic, social and cultural capital to context of instruction, including schools' human and material resources, as well as school and classroom conditions and processes (IEA 1998).
