Research has indicated that regular, systematic writing, over an extended period of time, improves student academic achievement and attitude towards mathematics. In addition there is support that assessment for learning strategies, such as descriptive feedback and peer and self-assessment, are vital to enhancing students' overall performance. Traditional teaching practices of chalk and talk do not meet the needs of students entering our classrooms today. Teachers must be innovative and rely on a combination of teaching methods to stimulate students' interest and to elicit participation in...

The purpose of this research was to determine how Project-based Learning (PBL) influenced students behavioural, cognitive, and emotional engagement in a secondary Chemistry class. Most previous research studies refer to behavioural engagement when speaking of student engagement. This research was an attempt to distinguish between the various types of engagement and the use of different teaching pedagogies. The research compared twenty-five students behavioural, cognitive, and emotional engagement during two different chemistry units: one using PBL and the other without PBL. Levels of...

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between the learning environment and student achievement and behaviour while journaling, and to learn if a teacher could control these conditions to produce an optimum environment for students. Incandescent, and fluorescent lighting conditions were examined in the study, along with blue and red colouring. The semi-structured, action research methodology employed a quantitative analysis of the data with a small (n=