Poor conditions leading to substandard indoor air quality (IAQ) in classrooms have been frequently cited in the literature over the past two decades. However, there is limited data linking poor IAQ in the classrooms to student performance. Whereas, it is assumed that poor IAQ results in reduced attendance and learning potential, and subsequent poor student performance, validating this hypothesi...

The purpose of this study was to examine to what extend classroom management efficacy, marital status, gender, and teaching experience predict burnout among primary school teachers. Participants of this study were 523 (345 female, 178 male) teachers who completed inventories. The results of multiple regression analysis indicated that three dimensions of teacher burnout (Emotional Exhaustion, De...

Classroom assessment tasks and environment are central to supporting student learning, yet are under-studied at the tertiary level, especially in China’s test-driven culture. This study explores the relationship between students’ perceptions of assessment tasks and classroom assessment environment, within the university context of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in China. A questio...

BACKGROUND The decision to randomize by clusters of subjects such as a classroom or clinic versus individual randomization where some contamination may occur is examined within the framework of sample size issues. Estimates for background rates and intraclass correlations are also provided for adolescent tobacco and alcohol outcomes derived from a recent study using cluster randomization. MET...

This study examines 2 aspects of cognitive processing in person perception—attention and decision making—in classroom-relevant contexts. Teachers completed 2 implicit, performance-based tasks that characterized attention to and utilization of 4 student characteristics of interest: ethnicity, facial affect, body size, and attractiveness. Stimuli were 24 full-body photos of girls that varied alon...

www.JCE.DivCHED.org • Vol. 84 No. 11 November 2007 • Journal of Chemical Education 1795 This paper describes nanoscale patterning experiments based on soft lithography that can be performed on the benchtop. These experiments are designed for undergraduate students at the beginning of their academic career (firstand second-year students). Because of the simplicity and inexpensive nature of the p...

The present research aimed at investigating the interaction of the classroom talk to have a better understanding of the teachers’ practice teaching which can pave the way for reflection on teaching. The study benefitted from conversation analytic perspective to qualitatively and interpretively examine the classroom discourse of the teacher-learner interaction. The classroom talk was analyzed th...

The paper reports a quasi-experimental study comparing the “traditional flipped classroom” pedagogical design with the “productive failure” (Kapur, 2016) pedagogical design in the flipped classroom for a 2week curricular unit on polynomials in a Hong Kong Secondary school. Different from the flipped classroom where students are provided video clips with new concepts and associated procedures to...

INTRODUCTION Although medical students are increasingly exposed to clinical experiences as part of their training, these often occur parallel with, rather than connected to, their classroom-based learning experiences. Additionally, students seem to struggle with spontaneously making the connection between these spheres of their training themselves. Therefore, this systematic review synthesized ...