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Triboni, Eduardo; Weber, Gabriel – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the development and use of pedagogical games, as they provide an interesting approach to the appropriation of knowledge in the context of active learning. However, most didactic games fail to completely implement a cycle of reflection and action, thereby fostering mostly lower-order thinking skills and…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Active Learning
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Arantes do Amaral, João Alberto; Frazão, Claudia Henriquez – Science Education International, 2016
The systemic aspects of educational projects that involved universities, organizations and communities are issues that concern a number of researchers. In this paper, the authors present the processes and findings related to a one-year educational project. The educational project is accomplished through two sequential courses, which are taught by…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Nongovernmental Organizations
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Silva, João Carlos Sedraz; Zambom, Erik; Rodrigues, Rodrigo Lins; Ramos, Jorge Luis Cavalcanti; de Souza, Fernando da Fonseca – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2018
The present article is aimed at analyzing the effects of learning analytics on students' self-regulated learning in a flipped classroom. An experiment was conducted with 96 engineering students, enrolled in a subject offered in the Flipped Classroom model. The students were divided into two groups: an experimental group (N = 51) and a control…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, Experimental Groups, Learning Strategies
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Cicuto, Camila Aparecida Tolentino; Torres, Bayardo Baptista – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
The Biochemistry: Biomolecules Structure and Metabolism course's goal is to promote meaningful learning through an active learning environment. Thus, study periods (SP) and discussion groups (DG) are used as a substitute for lecture classes. The goal of this study was to evaluate how this learning environment influences students' motivation (n =…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Environment, Biochemistry, Student Motivation
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Arantes do Amaral, João Alberto; Hess, Aurélio; Gonçalves, Paulo; Rodrigues, Vinícius Picanço – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
In this article, we present our findings regarding promoting group drawing activities in order to facilitate the learning of systemic aspects of projects. We discuss the approach we used to engage the students and foster learning in our classes. We used group drawing activities in two project management undergraduate courses. The courses, which…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Freehand Drawing, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students
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Conti, Keli Cristina; Lucchesi de Carvalho, Dione – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This article focuses on the notion of literacy--general and statistical--in the analysis of data from a fieldwork research project carried out as part of a master's degree that investigated the teaching and learning of statistics in adult education mathematics classes. We describe the statistical context of the project that involved the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Scientific Literacy, Science Projects, Adult Education