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Cristiano Morini; Edmundo Inacio Junior; Anibal Tavares de Azevedo; Francisco Elíseo Fernandes Sanches; Eduardo Avancci Dionisio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Higher education institutions (HEIs) are crucial in sustainable development. To this end, they must infuse sustainability into all their endeavors. This study aims to delve into the unique vertically integrated project (VIP), a project-based learning approach and its impact on students' skills and the surrounding community.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Colleges, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Michal Sigron; Dorothy Langley; Stanislaw Dylak; Edit Yerushalmi – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Response to the continuing call to integrate scientific inquiry activities into high school education has taken different forms varying in student ownership, physical setting, time span, and mentoring resources. Important issues are how students perceive central dimensions of their experience, and the extent to which the inquiry framework design…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Physics, Secondary School Science
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Davis, Mark A.; Philip, Jestine; Walker, Laura – Management Teaching Review, 2022
This article outlines an active learning project that gives students hands-on experience in developing an undergraduate situational judgment test. The five-part activity models the process for constructing a situational judgment test--a tool commonly used for employee selection in organizations. The project is designed to help students assimilate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Situational Tests, Active Learning, Selection Tools
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Lake, Danielle; Lowen, Aaron; Moretto, Kristin; Youker, Brandon W. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2021
This study examines the post-course impact of community-based learning (CBL) on undergraduate students enrolled in a CBL course from one of four undergraduate degree programs at a large, public university. Mixed methods analysis of survey and interview data show that CBL experiences supported holistic development for students, including in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Service Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Development
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Velez, Anne-Lise; Lewis, Stephanie N.; Thomas, Raymond C.; Ozkan, Desen S. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2022
The honors college at a large land-grant research university developed transdisciplinary courses to provide undergraduate opportunities for small, student-centered classes and collaborative problem engagement in a global context. In these courses, students engage principles of competency-based education and inquiry-based learning combined with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Sahingoz, Selcuk; Cobern, William W. – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
The main purpose of the study is to gain insight on to what extent taking a science methods course correlated with the science teaching pedagogical preferences of pre-service science teachers. The study recruited twenty K-8 teacher education students enrolled in lower division science courses at a large American public university, some of whom had…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Schroeder, Meadow; McKeough, Anne; Graham, Susan A.; Norris, Stephen P. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2019
Background: Uncertainty is a crucial element of scientific knowledge growth. Students should have some understanding of how science knowledge is developed and why scientific conclusions are considered more or less certain than others. A component of the nature of science, it is considered an important aspect of science education and allows…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Grade 5, Grade 9
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Tierney, Gavin; Goodell, Alexandra; Nolen, Susan Bobbitt; Lee, Nathanie; Whitfield, Lisé; Abbott, Robert D. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
This paper describes a three-year, design-based research project to redesign a year-long, project-based advanced placement environmental science course to better support student engagement and the development of environmental citizen identities. In the initial implementation, students' increased understanding of environmental problems…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Learner Engagement, Advanced Placement, Curriculum Development