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Moffat, Kirstine; McKim, Anne – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This article describes, discusses and reflects on a teaching and learning experiment in a first year BA course. Students were led out of the lecture room to a different space, the New Place Theatre. While this move out of the usual teaching space was appropriate for the text being studied, William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Theater Arts, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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Conner, Lindsey Norma – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
"Evaluative constructivism" is used to describe how students derived learning intentions and made choices about what they would do during a unit of work in a final-year high school biology class, as they conducted an inquiry into the social and ethical issues associated with cancer. The context of the study, theoretical background and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Intentional Learning, Biology, Secondary School Science
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Spronken-Smith, Rachel; Walker, Rebecca; Batchelor, Julie; O'Steen, Billy; Angelo, Tom – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is promoted as a teaching approach that can enhance student learning outcomes. IBL can be categorised according to scale (e.g. tasks, course/module/paper, degree), mode (structured, guided, open) and framing (information or discovery-oriented). Our research used a survey instrument to determine how student perceptions…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Learning Processes, Comparative Analysis