Articles for tag: Educational Research, Teaching Math

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Teaching Math: Adding Even and Odd Numbers

Identifying even and odd numbers begins in the first grade. It is an important math skill to master, as it will be built upon in the academic years to come. You can find great Tips and Tools for Teaching Even and Odd Numbers here but by third grade students will be expected to identify even ...

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Ethnographic Research in Education

Ethnographic research is a naturalistic, observational method that produces real descriptions of context and culture. It alternates between a narrow and a broad focus. Ethnographers study a wide range of subjects, including, individual behavior, environmental conditions, and shared, taken-for-granted patterns of belief. In ethnography, researchers engage systematically with those they are studying by participating in ...

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Sports Pedagogy

Kinesiology encompasses many specific disciplines, and is a field of study that has been greatly changing over the years. In taking an in-depth look at one of these sub-disciplines of Kinesiology, we may be able to connect to its benefits and purposes in a more efficient way. Education research is a major sub-discipline in this ...

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Homogeneous Grouping

Ability grouping is the best way for students to learn (6). Homogeneous grouping is the best way to help a class experience the most successful learning (4,12). When new experiences are presented to a heterogeneous group the group experience is disappointing and not everyone reminds on the same page (3, 413). When you put heterogeneous ...

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Five Topics for Educational Research

Here are five topics for research in education. The perfect gift for the college student wondering what to select as a topic, or the educational professional seeking to enlighten us with a breakthrough or two. What nutritional elements elevate learning abilities? Are there foods that aid in the educational process? Certainly there are foods to ...

Personal Position – the Ethics Paper

Developing a personal ethics statement is important to educators, health fields, and even for management staff. In order to develop an exceptional ethics position, it is essential to read what others say in their personal statements, but even more important to understand how you really feel. Examine the differences in your ethical opinions, based on ...

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The Benefits of Cooperative Learning

Constructivist theories of learning propose that students should discover information for themselves, developing and questioning knowledge as necessary. Social learning theorists suggest that learning is heavily influenced by interaction with, and input from other individuals. A highly effective teaching strategy known as cooperative learning fuses these two perspectives of learning, taking a group discovery approach ...

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The Art and Science of Teaching

Some educators view teaching as primarily an art. Others take an opposite point of view and consider teaching to be strictly a science. Many educators believe that effective teaching is a combination of both art and a science. A teacher gains knowledge both, of teaching methods and subject matter throughout his or her career. The ...

Qualitative Research Characteristics

Qualitative research is rooted in social disciplines, and therefore relies heavily on verbal descriptions of participant’s experiences “to capture the human meaning of social life as it is lived, experienced and understood by the participants.” The major characteristics of qualitative research as listed in table 6.2 of Gay and Airasian’s text are: Naturalistic inquiry – ...