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Chad R. Lochmiller; Jennifer R. Karnopp – Journal of Educational Change, 2024
Scholars have argued that problem formulation is an important part of successfully initiating a Networked Improvement Community (NIC/s). Yet, few scholars have studied the problem formulation process at the beginning of a NIC. This study draws upon problem formulation literature to examine how district initiators in one NIC identify and make sense…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Learning Activities, Networks
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Cheng, Ching-Ching; Huang, Kuo-Hung; Lin, Yi-Kai – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
This study aims to assist preschools in achieving sustainable development by providing system thinking training for teachers and administrators. By promoting system thinking and PDCA, training helps preschool staff and teachers construct their knowledge and culture for organizational growth and effective operation. The research procedure…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Preschools, Management Development, Faculty Development
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Flowers, Sharleen; Holder, Kal H.; Gardnera, Stephanie M. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
Understanding molecular processes and coordinating the various activities across levels of organization in biological systems is a complicated task, yet many curricular guidelines indicate that undergraduate students should master it. Employing mechanistic reasoning can facilitate describing and investigating biological phenomena. Biofilms are an…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Molecular Biology
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Uskola, Araitz; Puig, Blanca – Research in Science Education, 2023
Science educators highlight the importance of developing systems thinking (ST) and futures thinking (FT) for students to make decisions and to be active citizens that address socioscientific problems. The dimensions related to FT take in this study were three implied in ST and two in the appropriation of the future. The aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Thinking Skills, Pandemics
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Elaissa T. Hardy; Sara Ivey Fulmer; Joseph M. Le Doux; Wilbur A. Lam – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2022
BME HealthReach is an educational outreach program where undergraduate BME students participate in an out-of-class design thinking course to create and teach interactive STEM activities to K-12 students, where children with chronic illnesses are the primary clients. We detail research that seeks to answer the following: (1) what impact does this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Design, Systems Approach, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bertoni, Alessandro – Education Sciences, 2019
Students engaged in systems engineering education typically lack experience and understanding of the multidisciplinary complexity of systems engineering projects. Consequently, students struggle to understand the value, rationale, and usefulness of established systems engineering methods, often perceiving them as banal or trivial. The paper…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Engineering Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Graduate Students
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Naesby, Torben – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate quality in Danish preschools and to establish whether disadvantaged children benefit from preschool attendance in an inclusive perspective? The conceptual framework of the research project rests on bio-eco-systems theory [Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006. "The Bioecological model of human development.…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Quality, Rating Scales, Preschool Education
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Soleas, Eleftherios; Bolden, Ben – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
Past innovation research has focused on business contexts and prodigy, leaving the insights of today's successful innovators in a range of fields overlooked in their utility to inform the education of our next generation of innovators. This mixed method study combined surveys (n = 500) and interviews (n = 30) of Canadian innovators to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Capacity Building, Motivation
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Yang, Yuqin – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
The study used activity systems analysis to characterize the processes, dynamics, and tensions in the social practices developed by a class of academic low-achievers in a knowledge-building environment augmented by analytics-supported reflective assessment. A class of 37 Grade 9 low-achievers and an experienced teacher participated this study.…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Knowledge Level, Video Technology, Student Attitudes
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Chattopadhyay, Dhiman – Intercultural Communication Education, 2022
University campuses are critical spaces where the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in society are discussed, and debated. However, even as campus communities across the world grow more diverse, higher education institutions are facing an existential crisis--high dropout rates, low enrollments, growing disenchantment with…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, State Universities, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Kruk, Mariusz; Zawodniak, Joanna – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
L2 classroom is a place and process that undergoes an array of incessant and concurrent changes affecting its main agents, i.e. the teacher and students in a non-linear and unpredictable manner. Various aspects of their cognitive and affective potential fluctuate and intensify or weaken depending on what is going on in a particular L2…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Darabi, Aubteen; Arrington, Thomas Logan – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
As students graduate and enter the workforce, they face the job market's demand for critical thinking (CT) skills. The demand is caused by the market's increasing need for providing professional services that require performing complex tasks. In response to this demand, institutions of higher education are expected to prepare their graduate…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Critical Thinking, Graduate Students, Systems Approach
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Boukhechba, Hicham; Bouhania, Bachir – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2019
The indispensability of ICT tools in EFL classrooms is rather taken for granted, often in a way to promote the teaching/learning experience. Accordingly, teachers more than ever are encouraged or even explicitly instructed to use different tools inside the classroom. However, the lack of a systematic approach that governs the design and the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Middle School Students
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Fauville, Géraldine – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
In this article, 61 high-school students learned about ocean acidification through a virtual laboratory followed by a virtual lecture and an asynchronous discussion with a marine scientist on an online platform: VoiceThread. This study focuses on the students' development of ocean literacy when prompted to ask questions to the scientist. The…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Marine Education, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses
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Frerichs, Leah; Lich, Kristen Hassmiller; Young, Tiffany L.; Dave, Gaurav; Stith, Doris; Corbie-Smith, Giselle – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Engaging youth from racial and ethnic minority communities as leaders for change is a potential strategy to mobilize support for addressing childhood obesity, but there are limited curricula designed to help youth understand the complex influences on obesity. Our aim was to develop and pilot test a systems science curriculum to elicit rural…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, African American Students, Health Behavior, Student Attitudes
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