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Andrew E. Parzyck – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This study explores how first-year seminar (FYS) instructors at four-year institutions in New England create meaningful adult learning environments for traditional-aged college students and apply adult learning principles. The research examines classroom practices and teaching philosophies using qualitative methods grounded in andragogy and…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Adult Learning, Educational Principles, Classroom Techniques
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Panagiota Chatzidaki; Urban Eriksson; Sarah Zoechling; Sascha Schmeling; Tobias Fredlund – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Following the global COVID-19 pandemic, digital learning environments have gained in importance in education all around the world. A new digital learning format called a "Digital Learning Module" (DLM) was developed within the Physics Education Research (PER) group at CERN, consisting of a series of prerecorded explanatory and experiment…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Educational Research
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Miller, Emily C.; Severance, Samuel; Krajcik, Joseph – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
In "A Framework for K-12 Science Education," researchers call for teachers to make dramatic shifts in practice -- and sustain in these changes in practice -- so students can engage in rigorous and equitable three-dimensional science learning. Project-Based Learning (PBL) motivates students from diverse backgrounds to persist in learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Educational Change
Condliffe, Barbara – MDRC, 2017
The concept of project-based learning (PBL) has garnered wide support among a number of K-12 education policy advocates and funders. This working paper builds on and updates a seminal literature review of PBL published in 2000. Focused primarily on articles and studies that have emerged in the 17 years since then, the working paper discusses the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Principles
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Lambert, Clive – Gifted Education International, 2014
This article summarises the actions taken by a Catholic secondary school in England to improve the learning, motivation and well-being of its students. It describes the theories of mindset, as proposed by Dweck (2006); aspects of self-determination, as described by Kasser and Ryan (1993); and intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, as detailed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Health, Well Being
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Jabbar, Azita Iliya Abdul; Felicia, Patrick – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
This paper aims to show best practices of GBL design for engagement. It intends to show how teachers can implement GBL in a collaborative, comprehensive and systematic way, in the classrooms, and probably outside the classrooms, based on empirical evidence and theoretical framework designed accordingly. This paper presents the components needed to…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Teacher Surveys, Guidelines
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Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando; Qian, Kan – JALT CALL Journal, 2015
This paper presents both the pedagogical design principles and the challenges faced during the development of a mobile app, Chinese Characters First Steps, to support recognising, learning and practising writing Chinese characters at beginners' level, including the difficult balance between pedagogy and technical affordances. We also present the…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Chinese, Courseware, Statistical Analysis
Brundage, Donald H.; MacKeracher, Dorothy – 1980
This report examined adult learning principles which were developed through an analysis and synthesis of the literature in adult education, andragogy, teaching and learning, and other related fields. The report consists of six sections. The first section deals with background assumptions relevant to the field of adult education and adult learning.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Cognitive Style
Nelson, Jorge O. – 1993
Military personnel facing forced retirement are prime candidates for retraining as teachers. As mature adult learners, retiring/retired military personnel have certain needs that must be addressed if they are to become successful in their educational careers. Knowles' six assumptions of andragogy acknowledge these special needs as follows: adults…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy
Thompson, Ekundayo J. D. – 2002
The effects of literacy and livelihood programs on female learners' participation in literacy were examined through case studies of groups of women who participated in four literacy and income-earning projects in Kenya. Data were collected through focus group discussions and a questionnaire. The four programs were started between 1968 and 1999 and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies, Community Development