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Jessica L. Alzen; Ilana M. Trumble; Kimberly J. Cho; Eric A. Vance – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
Data science is inherently collaborative as individuals across fields and sectors use quantitative data to answer relevant questions. As a result, there is a growing body of research regarding how to teach interdisciplinary collaboration skills. However, much of the work evaluating methods of teaching statistics and data science collaboration…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Comparative Analysis
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Larysa Kolesnyk; Heidi Biseth – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article focuses on the learning activities provided for ten experienced teacher educators from six teacher education institutions in Ukraine. The authors examine how teacher educators approach professional development when introducing a new interdisciplinary course in teacher education programmes Methods of Teaching the interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Professional Development, Global Approach, Educational Change
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Linjing Wu; Shuang Yu; Qingtang Liu; Junmin Ye; Xinxin Zheng; Jianhu Wang – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2025
Interdisciplinary collaboration is widely used in research, industry, and education. Understanding the differences in cognitive processes between cross-discipline and same-discipline groups can improve instruction in collaborative learning. In this study, students volunteered to participate in cross-discipline or same-discipline collaborative…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Judith Canner; Jennifer E. Clinkenbeard – Numeracy, 2024
The idea of "threshold concepts" has been used to identify discipline-based concepts that are critical to that academic area. Threshold concepts are often difficult for students to assimilate in a meaningful way but, once done, can be powerful for the learner. In general, threshold concepts are 1) transformative to learner thinking; 2)…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Comparative Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach, Thinking Skills
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Leišyte, Liudvika; Rose, Anna-Lena; Sterk-Zeeman, Nadine – Tertiary Education and Management, 2022
Universities have increasingly been subjected to policy- and industry demands to produce multi- and interdisciplinary knowledge. This paper explores the extent to which different higher education policy instruments are used to promote interdisciplinarity in teaching and research at universities in the German higher education system comparing them…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Edward J. Balleisen; Laura Howes; Erik Wibbels – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
A growing body of research suggests that "high-impact practices" such as project-based and experiential learning make important contributions to undergraduate student development and outcomes. However, most attempts to evaluate such programs are based on qualitative or self-reported data generated from small samples. This study examines…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Critical Thinking, Teamwork, Student Projects
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Gross, Thomas J.; Li, Qingxia; McCarroll, Patricia – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the preliminary outcomes of a learning community intervention (LC), which was based on the performance pyramid theoretical model of student supports. The LC integrated college algebra into biology course work. We used a quasi-experimental design to compare LC students to separate General Biology I and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Communities of Practice, Biology, Knowledge Level
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Tran, Thien-Vu; Pham, Thao Phuong; Nguyen, Mai-Huong; Do, Long-Thanh; Pham, Hiep-Hung – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the economic efficiency of Vietnamese 172 higher education (HE) institutions within the 2012-2016 inclusive period through the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. The authors also compare public and private, multidisciplinary and mono-disciplinary, non-autonomy and autonomy, non-international and…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Parisa HadaviBavili; Kevser Ilçioglu – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Anatomy is one of the leading subjects in health science, and students need a strong anatomy background in these fields. Traditional lecturer-oriented anatomy education is based predominantly on passive learning methods. In recent years, alternative educational methods like hands-on art and 3D atlas-based education methods have become more popular…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students, Intervention
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Daniel L. Silverio; Eugenia Villa-Cuesta; Alison Hyslop; Kevin Kolack; Sabrina G. Sobel – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Students are encouraged to develop a set of scientific skills and disciplinary practices common across the STEM disciplines. These skills (scientific inquiry, quantitative skills, laboratory and computational skills, communication skills, teamwork/interpersonal skills, interdisciplinary competency) are highlighted as important in discipline-based…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics
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Sharma, Gunjan; Mittal, Radhika; Zayan – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article engages with the teacher education (TE) reform approach adopted in India's National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. It locates the policy recommendations in the context and challenges of TE in India and makes sense of the NEP's vision for the domain. It examines the knowledge traditions and global education policy (GEP) discourses that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Sharunova, Alyona; Wang, Yang; Kowalski, Michael; Qureshi, Ahmed Jawad – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The new transdisciplinary nature of industrial product design should be appropriately addressed by post-secondary institutions and engineering schools in their curricula to ensure high quality of engineering design education and its applicability to industrial demands. To achieve this, a new transdisciplinary teaching methodology is required. This…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Engineering Education, Design, Teaching Methods
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Lamb, Michael; Dykhuis, Elise M.; Mendonça, Sara E.; Jayawickreme, Eranda – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
In the last century, higher education has witnessed a shift away from explicit character education. Although scholarship has recently reemerged on the importance of character in college, there are almost no empirical investigations of courses intentionally designed to impact student character at the college level. The current study examines an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Values Education, Comparative Analysis, Undergraduate Students
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Marisol Rico Cortez; Amjad Almusaed; Asaad Almssad – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
International research is already booming, and global problems like climate change have sparked interdisciplinary initiatives involving academics from many nations, disciplines, and tongues. Integrating the research team, the supervisors, and the doctoral students present several challenges, such as multicultural issues; integrating a good team…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Business Schools, International Schools, Supervision
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Kuo, Hsu-Chan; Yang, Ya-Ting Carolyn; Chen, Jung-San; Hou, Ting-Wei; Ho, Ming-Tzu – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: Prior studies have shown that project-based learning (PBL) is an effective approach on engineering education. This study further identifies the impact of a design thinking (DT) integrated PBL approach on the college students' learning motivation and creativity. Background: A well-developed robot and its project often require…
Descriptors: Design, Creative Thinking, Active Learning, Student Projects
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