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Delgado-García, Manuel; Conde Vélez, Sara; Toscano Cruz, María de la O – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
Cooperative learning is one of the active teaching and learning methodologies with a growing presence in the different educational stages in recent times. The aim of this work is to apply an instrument previously validated in university education to find out to what extent the fundamental elements of cooperative learning are potentiated. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, College Students, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires
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Sager, Turan; Kalaycioglu, Sükrü Göktug; Zahal, Onur – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
In this study, it is aimed to determine the effects of active learning activities on viola students' performance and motivation. One group pretest-posttest experimental design was used in the study. The study group consist of 10 students, 7 of them receiving Viola training within the scope of the Individual Instrument course at Gaziosmanpasa…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Activities, Music Education, Musical Instruments
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Kim M. Anderson – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
This article aims to provide an overview of an introductory MSW research course that introduced students to participatory action research (PAR) by investigating adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among social work majors at a public university. Integrating trauma-informed pedagogy with Kolb's experiential learning model provided a framework for…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Work, Counselor Training, Masters Programs
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Xiu, Ying; Thompson, Penny – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationship between motivation and students' perspectives, learning performance, and use of online course materials in flipped classrooms. Background: The flipped classroom model is an innovative instruction method that has limited research to date exploring its impact on motivation. It remains unknown…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Grades (Scholastic)
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Du, Xiangyun; Ebead, Usama; Sabah, Saed; Ma, Jianping; Naji, Khalid Kamal – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Background: This study investigated the development of engineering students' approaches to learning and views on collaboration in a PBL environment. Material and methods: An explanatory mixed research approach was employed with participants from four PBL-implementing engineering courses in Qatar and China. 197 students responded to two surveys,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning
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Beauchamp, David M.; Newton, Genevieve; Monk, Jennifer M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Maintaining scientific literacy (SL) skill development in undergraduate science education while transitioning courses from the in-person to online learning environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic requires adaptation of some teaching practices. This study assessed the effectiveness of small online learning groups as the active engagement strategy…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Adkins-Jablonsky, Sarah J.; Shaffer, Justin F.; Morris, J. Jeffrey; England, Ben; Raut, Samiksha – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Anxiety can impact overall performance and persistence in college. Student response systems (SRSs), real-time active-learning technologies used to engage students and gauge their understanding, have been shown to elicit anxiety for some students. Kahoot! is an SRS technology that differs from others in that it involves gamification, the use of…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Anxiety, Introductory Courses, Biology
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Bull, Harold; Premkumar, Kalyani; Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
We found that actively engaging students in our introductory microbiology course was a challenge given our large class sizes and many non-majors taking the course as a program requirement. Therefore, we introduced a novel active learning strategy to our course. Students grouped into teams of three had to create PowerPoint virtual posters on one of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Class Size
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Moyne, Martina M.; Herman, Maxwell; Gajos, Krzysztof Z.; Walsh, Conor J.; Holland, Donal P. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
This article describes the development of the Design Evaluation and Feedback Tool (DEFT), a custom-built web-based system that collects and reports data to support teaching, learning, and research in project-based engineering design education. The DEFT system collects data through short weekly questionnaires for students and instructors in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Holton, Mark – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
This research, conducted with groups of undergraduate students before and after a European fieldwork exercise, critically examines the pedagogic value of fieldwork and its ability to provide students with transferable skills. This is achieved using Anderson and Erskine's lens of tropophilia--the aesthetic connection between people and place--to…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Affective Behavior
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Byrne, Bruce; Guy, Richard – Advances in Physiology Education, 2016
This article describes student perceptions and outcomes in relation to the use of a novel interteaching approach. The study sample (n = 260) was taken from a large human physiology class, which included both first- and second-year students. However, unlike the first-year students, the second-year students had significant prior knowledge, having…
Descriptors: Physiology, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Blings, Steffen; Maxey, Sarah – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
In their transition to college, students often struggle to identify and make connections between the main arguments, evidence, and empirical findings of articles from academic journals commonly assigned on political science syllabi. Which active learning techniques are most effective for teaching students to recognize and evaluate social science…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence, Periodicals, Active Learning
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Guimarães, Helena; Fonseca, Cecília; Gonzalez, Carla; Pinto-Correia, Teresa – Journal of Research Practice, 2017
This article describes how a research institute went about reviewing the relationship between its members and external research partners in engaging in collaborative research. A systematization of experiences (SE) process was implemented to enable such review and draw implications for the institute's strategy regarding research into the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Research, Sustainability, Agriculture
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Chiu, Pit Ho Patrio; Cheng, Shuk Han – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Recent studies on active learning classrooms (ACLs) have demonstrated their positive influence on student learning. However, most of the research evidence is derived from a few subject-specific courses or limited student enrolment. Empirical studies on this topic involving large student populations are rare. The present work involved a large-scale…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Learning Experience
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Hunt, Maree J.; Macaskill, Anne C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
Taking an ethical approach to using nonhuman animals in teaching requires assessment of the learning benefits of using animals and how these compare to the benefits of alternative teaching practices. It is also important to consider whether students have ethical reservations about completing exercises with animals. We compared upper level…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Animals, Psychology
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