We examine the relationship between children's kindergarten attention skills and developmental patterns of classroom engagement throughout elementary school in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods. Kindergarten measures include teacher ratings of classroom behavior, direct assessments of number knowledge and receptive vocabulary, and parent-reported family characteristics. From grades 1 through 6...

In this paper we describe a highly interactive touch-based application to teach the basics of trigonometry to secondary school students. The application, called Ziggy, lets students “touch” and “push” triangles, dynamically modifying the shape and size, and observe the effect on the angles, sides and the trigonometric ratios. We describe the pedagogical rationale behind Ziggy, the user interfac...

To explore the effectiveness of using flipped classroom approach, a group of 40 male 10th graders in the city of Babol, selected randomly through cluster sampling, was assigned to two classes one of which was taught using the said approach while in the other the traditional method was implemented. Both groups were pre- and post-tested on computer self-efficacy and classroom perception and then ...

BACKGROUND Visual demands of school children tend to vary with diverse classroom environments. The study aimed to evaluate the distance and near Visual Acuity (VA) demand in Indian school classrooms and their comparison with the recommended vision standards. MATERIALS AND METHODS The distance and near VA demands were assessed in 33 classrooms (grades 4 to 12) of eight schools. The VA threshol...

Most contemporary public educati on systems are sti ll based on the ‘one size fi ts all’, full-ti me classroom-based model. It is believed to eff ecti vely serve all learners, or at least to provide them with the best educati on our society is able to off er in current economic and social circumstances. However, this singlemodel approach does not allow many students to achieve their best possib...

Since flipped learning has introduced by J. Bergmann and A. Sams, researchers have proven the new method of lectures improves students’ recognition and participation of classes at any level of schools, which included from elementary schools to colleges. This paper analyzed the journals and dissertations of the effect of flipped learning on Korean students. The result is positive to represent th...

The aim of the present study was to examine to what extent classroom factors (i.e., classroom antibullying attitudes and behavioral norms) contributed to individual bullying, after controlling for individual difference characteristics. Participants were 2,547 early adolescents (M = 13.4 years, SD = .63) from 109 middle school classes. Self- and peer reports were used to answer the research ques...

Recent reform of medical education highlights the growing concerns about the capability of the current educational model to equip medical school students with essential skills for future career development. In the field of ophthalmology, although many attempts have been made to address the problem of the decreasing teaching time and the increasing load of course content, a growing body of liter...

A quality evaluation method is an important means and the main basis on which to evaluate the college English classroom teaching quality of teachers. To overcome the one-sided subjectivity and resulting imprecision of the traditional classroom teaching quality evaluation method, a scientific and reasonable quality evaluation index system for college English classroom teaching is constructed. Th...