PURPOSE This study aimed to explore the associations between learning styles and high academic achievement and to ascertain whether the factors associated with high academic achievement differed between preclinical and clinical students. METHODS A survey was conducted among undergraduate medical students in Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The Index of Learning Styles questionnaire was used t...

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching technique in which authentic, real-world projects are used as the primary vehicle to drive the student’s learning experience. This technique has been found to be very effective, but its overall adoption rate is relatively low, in part due to teachers’ unfamiliarity with how to best use technology to successfully implement it. This research study involv...

Learning a foreign language takes time and effort. In the last few years, too much emphasis has been placed on oral communication skills and English teachers make their students speak English without paying enough attention to grammatical accuracy. As a result, while students’ ability in terms of fluency has improved, they often cannot communicate appropriately in English due to a lack of gramm...

A goal of IT education is to enable students to acquire the ability of using information in order to live in a modern information-oriented society. Such meta-ability cannot be learned in the traditional Japanese instructional way of knowledge being transmitted by teachers. When a teacher designs a lesson plan for IT education, it is necessary to include not only the target goal of the unit but ...

Elevated rates of failure in Engineering courses at the university level, in addition to the difficulty in attracting new students to courses in this area have made it necessary to implement new and innovative measures to invert this trend. ‘EDBI’ (Ensino à Distância Baseado na Internet) is a project conceived with the purpose of increasing school success and capturing the interest of the stude...

The present paper introduces a new model for teaching randomized learners. Our new model, though based on the classical teaching dimension model, allows to study the influence of various parameters such as the learner’s memory size, its ability to provide or to not provide feedback, and the influence of the order in which examples are presented. Furthermore, within the new model it is possible ...

76 This (the second of two articles) looks at some of the pedagogical aspects of the Communicative Approach, including the idea of a 'semantic syllabus' and the question of 'authenticity' in materials and methodology. It is argued that the Communicative Approach generally presents an over-simplified and misleading account of these issues, and that a sensible approach to language teaching involv...

Assessment of environmental impact is one of the main courses of environmental science and engineering subject, according to its features of comprehensiveness and practicalness, combine the requirements of engineers of environmental impact assessment, teachers should renew the teaching content, strengthen the case teaching, so to keep the classroom teaching and practical teaching synchronous. T...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies have been proven useful in assisting western classical singing training. Jingju (also known as Beijing or Peking opera) singing is different from western singing in terms of most of the perceptual dimensions, and the trainees are taught by using mouth/heart method. In this paper, we first present the training method used in the professional jingju ...

The present paper attempted to evaluate the improving trends of teaching methods by examining their impact on the learning concepts and perception of students of the Concept Schools located in the Baldia Town, Karachi Pakistan. For this purpose, three research questions were formulated; 1) what sorts of teaching methods have been used for the students during the period of 2008 to 2012?; 2) What...