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Diana Adela Martin; Gunter Bombaerts – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is an educational approach that has gained popularity in response to the need for authentic learning environments. While the CBL literature is predominantly focused on cases of pedagogical implementations, the actual processes by which students develop CBL projects remain under-investigated. This shortitudinal study…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Difficulty Level, Student Behavior
Topu, Fatma Burcu – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the effects of gamification on active and reflective learners' engagement and cognitive load. It also compared both groups' experiences in a 10-week gamification process. It employed triangulation, one of the mixed research designs in this study. Participants consisted of 70 undergraduate students (45 active, 25…
Descriptors: Gamification, Active Learning, Reflective Teaching, Learner Engagement
Development of an Inquiry Activity Model Emphasizing the Representation of Primary Science Textbooks
Soyeon Kim; Jung Bog Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Despite increased research interest in improving students' scientific inquiry abilities, how to conduct scientific inquiry using science textbooks that are easily accessible to primary school students remains understudied. This study developed and verified an inquiry activity model (IAM) to improve the performance of primary school students in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
Wang, Cixiao; Dong, Qian; Ma, Yuying – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
With the advancement of informational and portable technologies, virtual manipulatives based on tablets are applied to support students' learning in science education. However, research on the impact of tablet-student ratios on individual knowledge acquisition and cognitive load in collaborative inquiry learning has not been addressed in detail…
Descriptors: Tablet Computers, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Processes
Mallory Benedetto; Anne Case Hanks; Megan Lowe – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2024
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) at the University of Louisiana at Monroe aimed to improve academic performance in two gateway science courses that are required for all STEM and pre-health sciences majors and are known to be barriers to student success. The project sought to achieve this primarily by a course redesign that incorporated an extra…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Course Content, STEM Education
Tong Wang; Weiqun Wang; Jianye Wei – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Inquiry is one integral part of science learning. Understanding the underlining meaning and the complete procedures of inquiry-based laboratories would be beneficial to student teachers' future work. Therefore, it is necessary for student teachers to perform inquiry-based laboratories and know how to demonstrate them to school students. However,…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Chou Liu; Huei-Ying Ho; Chi-Ruei Tsai; Kai-Hsin Tai – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
By using information technology, science learning can be widely disseminated, including, for example, to rural schools. However, the implementation of inquiry-based science learning with action-to-ground science concepts for rural learners needs to be explored. To address this purpose, the present study adopted "live stream" technology…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
Wang, Yue; Eysink, Tessa H. S.; Qu, Zhili; Yang, Zhijiao; Shan, Huaming; Zhang, Nan; Zhang, Hai; Wang, Yining – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
This research used a comparative quasi-experimental design to investigate the impacts of an IRS in the ILE on students' academic performance, cognitive load, and satisfaction with the lesson. A total of 31 middle school students were divided into the experimental group and the control group. Mann-Whitney U tests yielded three major results. (1)…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Active Learning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes
Lazaro Lima; Ione Goulart; Luis Gonzaga Magalhães; Pedro Rangel Henriques – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
The challenges in learning and teaching computer programming relate to everyone who needs to prepare others for the digital world. Learning and teaching computer programming is a challenge because it requires persistence and dedication. Nowadays, Computational Thinking is understood as an essential skill to overcome those challenges. In this…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Active Learning, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes
Baligar, Preethi; Mallibhat, Kaushik; Kavale, Sanjeev; Joshi, Gopalkrishna – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: This study identifies the attributes of complexity that can be incorporated into engineering design problems at first-year undergraduate engineering projects. The findings are compiled as a set of guidelines to aid engineering educators in crafting design problems. Background: Engineering professionals solve complex problems like…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Problem Solving, College Freshmen
Allen, Andrew P.; Shinohara, Russell T.; Kroetz, Mary B. – College Teaching, 2022
Peer learning is an active learning technique that has been used for students to internalize difficult concepts. We have developed a method of peer learning, a consensus-based education approach, which allows for discussion and class consensus in large lecture classes. We tracked student success on concepts that employed the consensus-based…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods, Large Group Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Cook, Jacob; Ekstedt, Thomas; Self, Brian; Koretsky, Milo – Advances in Engineering Education, 2022
Based on the pedagogical principle of cognitive conflict, Inquiry-Based Laboratory Activities (IBLAs) have been shown to improve conceptual understanding of challenging science and engineering topics. Yet, providing students physical apparatuses to complete an IBLA is not tenable in every instructional setting. This paper reports design,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Video Technology, Distance Education, Inquiry
Janet Spitzig; Blake J. Renner – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
This study aimed to examine the relationship between student engagement and student retention of adult learners at community colleges. The relationship between student retention and the five Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) student engagement benchmarks (active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Cinthia Viviana Rojas-Palacio; Eliana Isabel Arango-Zuluaga; Héctor Antonio Botero-Castro – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
This paper explains the design and implementation of a novel didactic strategy based on learning styles for teaching automatic control theory in engineering. Traditional research on engineering education has worked to develop teaching methodologies, educational resources, and assessment tasks without considering the learning styles of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Class Activities, College Faculty, Instructional Design
Miller, David Allan; Schraeder, Matthew – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2022
At a research university near the east coast, a college algebra class has been restructured into two large lectures a week, an active recitation size laboratory once a week, and an extra day devoted to active group work called Supplemental Practice (SP). SP was added as an extra day of class where the SP leader has students work in groups on a…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Large Group Instruction