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Quardokus Fisher, Kathleen; Koretsky, Milo D. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
There have been calls for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) faculty in higher education to transition from traditional lecturing to instructional practices that are supported by empirical evidence. Administrators can coordinate such transitions through organized change initiatives. At the same time, there has been a shift…
Descriptors: College Faculty, STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
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Weurlander, Maria; Cronhjort, Mikael; Filipsson, Lars – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This study reports on an educational development initiative where peer instruction was used instead of traditional lectures in a calculus course for first-year engineering students. The aim of the study was to explore students' experiences of this method. Data were collected by means of an open-ended questionnaire on two occasions: early and late…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Content Analysis