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Overton, Tina L.; Randles, Christopher A. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
This paper describes the development and implementation of a novel pedagogy, dynamic problem-based learning. The pedagogy utilises real-world problems that evolve throughout the problem-based learning activity and provide students with choice and different data sets. This new dynamic problem-based learning approach was utilised to teach…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Downing, Kevin; Ning, Flora; Shin, Kristina – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) in higher education based on a large sample of first-year undergraduates from two programmes at a Hong Kong University (n=132). One programme uses an entirely problem-based approach to learning, whilst the other uses traditional methods.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Problem Based Learning, Metacognition, Foreign Countries
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Lam, Shui-fong; Cheng, Rebecca Wing-yi; Ma, William Y. K. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
In this study we examined the relationship between teacher and student intrinsic motivation in project-based learning. The participants were 126 Hong Kong secondary school teachers and their 631 students who completed evaluation questionnaires after a semester-long project-based learning program. Both teachers and students were asked to indicate…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Student Motivation, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Wong, Donna Kam Pun; Lam, Debbie Oi Bing – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
This study evaluated the effects of problem-based learning (PBL) in social work education. The participants were 132 second-year social work students who took the core courses of Social Work Theory and Practice and Skills Laboratory in the PBL mode. A 40-item scale was used to measure the students' perceptions of their social work knowledge,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Measures (Individuals), Social Work
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Lam, Debbie O. B.; Wong, Donna K. P.; Hui, Heidi S. K.; Lee, Francis W. L.; Chan, Edward K. L. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2006
A constant concern for educators is how best to train the students. With the knowledge explosion and increasing complexity of the social problems, we have to look for ways to strengthen social work students' ability for continual development. Enhancing their lifelong learning competence would help them to face the future demands. To achieve this,…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Problem Based Learning, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Tight, Malcolm, Ed.; Mok, Ka Ho, Ed.; Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Morphew, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Higher Education, Political Science