Methods category: 10193 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
While the great scientists of the past recognized a need for a multidisciplinary approach, today’s schools often treat math and science as subjects separate from the rest. This not only creates a disinterest among students, but also a potential learning gap once students reach college and then graduate...
The Ethnographic I
A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional...
Teaching and Learning STEM
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Rethink traditional teaching methods to improve student learning and retention in STEM
Educational research has repeatedly shown that compared to traditional teacher-centered instruction, certain learner-centered methods lead to improved learning outcomes, greater development of critical high-level...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
This is a book designed with the teacher educator in mind. It provides in depth examination of specific methods used effectively in self-study research. The chapters are written by researchers engaged in self-study of their practice.
Fostering Sustained Learning Among Undergraduate Students
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Keeping students engaged and receptive to learning can, at times, be a challenge. However, by the implementation of new methods and pedagogies, instructors can strengthen the drive to learn among their students. Fostering Sustained Learning Among Undergraduate Students: Emerging Research and Opportunities...
Reading-Writing Connections
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice is an extraordinary language arts methods text that enables elementary and middle school teachers to create classroom environments where all students can become lifelong readers and writers. Focusing on developmentally appropriate methods and materials,...
Using Photography and Other Arts-Based Methods With English Language Learners
Guidance, Resources, and Activities for P-12 Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book focuses on arts-based classroom practices that can be used to support English Language Learners. Recognizing that all children learn differently, but that the needs of children learning a new language are particularly unique, each chapter offers innovative in which arts-based methods can...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
While there are many books available on statistical analysis of data from experiments, there is significantly less available on the design, development, and actual conduct of the experiments. Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences summarizes how to design and conduct scientifically sound experiments,...
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies
Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies. Writing explicitly for pre-service social studies...
Learning with Mobile Technologies, Handheld Devices, and Smart Phones
Innovative Methods
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Mobile Learning is a new trend in pedagogical communities. It matches the speed of fast moving methodologies in pedagogical world. The theories of activity-based learning, problem-based learning, work-based learning, and opinion-based learning, learner-centered learning, and so forth, can be integrated...
by Ágnes Vathy-Fogarassy, János Abonyi
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This work presents a data visualization technique that combines graph-based topology representation and dimensionality reduction methods to visualize the intrinsic data structure in a low-dimensional vector space. The application of graphs in clustering and visualization has several advantages. A...
Enhancing Professional Knowledge of Pre-Service Science Teacher Education by Self-Study Research
Turning a Critical Eye on Our Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Self-study research is making an impact on the field of science education. University researchers employ these methods to improve their instruction, develop as instructors, and ultimately, impact their students’ learning. This volume provides an introduction to self-study research in science education,...
Stronger Writing Skills for Teens
Modes, Methods, and Materials That Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques and materials for teaching adolescent writing in a variety of modes. A practical and useful resource for classroom teachers, the book focuses on quality writing instruction within the modes of writing as...
Activating Assessment for All Students
Differentiated Instruction and Information Methods in Math and Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Hamm and Adams present models to help teachers identify student learning problems—recognizing when to re-teach, when to move ahead, and when to explain or give more examples. Activating Assessment for All Students takes all of these into account when it provides differentiated science/math methods...