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Simona Pesaresi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Essential to a flourishing society in a changing environment, knowledge creation has become pervasive across social sectors. Creative work with knowledge and ideas requires dynamic forms of collaboration in which individuals adapt goals as new advances and problems emerge. To prepare students for creative knowledge work, new classroom designs…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Inquiry, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning
Elias P. Blinkoff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Early childhood educators in the United States and worldwide face the growing challenge of "schoolification,"--the imposition of conventional academic content from later grade levels into their classrooms (e.g., Ring & O'Sullivan, 2018). The science of learning offers a different approach with evidence to support more active,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Play, Class Activities, Student Behavior
Dwight Lamar Farris – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored STEM faculty description of using a Student Response System (SRS) in higher education engineering classrooms, aimed to understand their experiences, practices, and perceptions of SRS as a pedagogical tool for enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. The research questions driving this qualitative study focused…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, STEM Education, College Faculty, Technology Uses in Education
Hoose, Nicole Arduini-Van – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Team-based learning is an instructional method of specifically structured in class team activities that has been proposed as an alternative to traditional lecture methods. Proponents of TBL claim that it promotes aspects of learning that traditional lecture methods do not. There have been numerous studies examining the benefits of TBL; however,…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Teaching Methods, Class Activities, Lecture Method
Chen, Qian – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This descriptive and exploratory case study focused on a specific Content-Based Language Teaching (CBLT) curriculum within the context of higher education in China. The researcher investigated the rationale behind the current design and students' and teachers' perceptions about the curriculum, as well as, their perceived motivations and challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Business English
Bear, Teresa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative action science research study utilized a causal-comparative experimental research design in order to determine if the use of student response systems (clickers), as an active learning strategy in a community college course, improved student performance in the course. Students in the experimental group (n = 26) used clickers to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audience Response Systems, Active Learning, Academic Achievement
Berry, Stacy Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There has been an increased emphasis for college instruction to incorporate more active and collaborative involvement of students in the learning process. These views have been asserted by The Association of American Colleges (AAC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and The National Research Counsel (NRC), which are advocating for the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes, Large Group Instruction
Franetovic, Marija – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Current educational initiatives encourage the use of authentic learning environments to realistically prepare students for jobs in a constantly changing world. Many students of the Millennial generation may be social media savvy. However, what can be said about learning conditions and student readiness for active, reflective and collaborative…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Virtual Classrooms, Cooperative Learning, Learner Engagement