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Da Tien Nguyen – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
This paper reviews the literature on Project-Based Learning (PjBL) as an experiential pedagogical methodology in general education. Using VOSviewer, a bibliometric analysis tool, the review explores the evolution, key themes, and prominent research trends within the PjBL field. The analysis identifies influential publications, authors, and…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Aaron Christian Wenger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Contemporary education research seeks causal inferences in order to guide policy and practice. Often well-controlled quasi-experimental and experimental designs are used as they are very useful for supporting and contextualizing causal inferences. Nevertheless, individual studies, even high-quality, resource-intensive randomized controlled trials,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Research, Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods
Sugano, Shalom Grace C.; Mamolo, Leo A. – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Literature shows that there is very little research focusing on the analysis of the effectiveness of teaching methodologies on the affective domain of the students. Effective instruction should be designed to cater to the individualities of learners that holistically develop not only the cognitive but also the affective domain. This requires…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
Large numbers of U.S. students lack proficiency in science, and students from different ethnic and socioeconomic groups show disparities in science achievement.2 Science knowledge and skills are important for both academic and workplace success, and a variety of interventions have been developed to improve student science achievement.…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Science Education, Inquiry
Active Learning in the Context of the Teaching/Learning of Computer Programming: A Systematic Review
Berssanette, João Henrique; de Francisco, Antonio Carlos – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2021
Aim/Purpose: This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review that sought to identify the studies that relate the different pedagogical techniques by which active learning is developed in the context of the teaching/learning of computer programming, with the objective to characterize the approaches, the pedagogical techniques…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Science Education, Programming, Educational Research
Zhang, Ling; Carter, Richard Allen; Qian, Xueqin; Yang, Sohyun; Rujimora, James; Wen, Shuman – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
This paper aimed to provide a holistic view of research that investigated online learning in higher education around the globe during COVID-19 utilizing a bibliometric analysis. The researchers used co-citation analysis and text mining afforded by VOSviewer to document and analyze research patterns and topics reported in peer-reviewed documents…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Electronic Learning, Higher Education
Liljedahl, Peter; Clarke, Anisha; Morrison, Nasriah – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2021
This conversation is a slightly modified version of an interview with Dr. Peter Liljedahl, Professor of Mathematics Education. The interview was conducted by "JMETC" Guest Editors on March 8, 2021 and was based on Dr. Liljedahl's December 7, 2020 colloquium presentation "Building Thinking Classrooms: A Case of Results First…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Educational Research
Bolt-Lee, Cynthia E. – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2021
This paper synthesizes research-based instructional strategies in accounting education, providing an important resource of learning-centered educational approaches from recent studies. Eleven articles published in 2019 from five accounting education journals are summarized. Categorized according to Marzano's research-based instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Student Centered Learning, Evidence Based Practice
Costes-Onishi, Pamela; Baildon, Mark; Aghazadeh, Sima – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
The challenges of the 21st century place inquiry as a necessary pedagogical orientation to educate young people for the future. In Singapore, inquiry-based learning is a core feature in social studies and the humanities subjects (geography and history) and has been extended recently to curriculum in the arts. Its centrality in the education system…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement
Keengwe, Jared, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Online and blended courses are becoming increasingly prevalent in higher education settings, and the pressures to incorporate these environments highlights the increased demand to serve a generation that prefers learning through experience or through interacting with learning tools. Challenges arise in assisting instructors in facilitating and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Blended Learning, Faculty Development, Higher Education
van Driel, Jan H.; Meirink, J. A.; van Veen, K.; Zwart, R. C. – Studies in Science Education, 2012
This review provides an overview of the the current state of research on professional development in science education. An analytical frame was used, based on what is known about PD from educational research. Clarke and Hollingsworth's model for teacher professional growth was also used to categorise the studies according to their aims and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Faculty Development, Science Education, Science Teachers
McConell, David A.; Chapman, LeeAnna; Czaijka, C. Douglas; Jones, Jason P.; Ryker, Katherine D.; Wiggen, Jennifer – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
The adoption of active learning instructional practices in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses has been shown to result in improvements in student learning, contribute to increased retention rates, and reduce the achievement gap among different student populations. Descriptions of active learning strategies…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, STEM Education
Speake, Janet – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This article explores some of the synergetic relationships between research and teaching which can help shape geography undergraduate students' understandings of research. Through the experience of investigating students' attitudes towards, and engagement with, satellite navigation technologies, it considers ways in which learning can be achieved…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Navigation, Geographic Information Systems, Student Attitudes
Marchitello, Max; Wilhelm, Megan – Center for American Progress, 2014
Raising academic standards has been part of the education policy discourse for decades. As early as the 1990s, states and school districts attempted to raise student achievement by developing higher standards and measuring student progress according to more rigorous benchmarks. However, the caliber of the standards--and their assessments--varied…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Cognitive Science, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Educational Research
Donnelly, Dermot F.; Linn, Marcia C.; Ludvigsen, Sten – Review of Educational Research, 2014
The National Science Foundation-sponsored report "Fostering Learning in the Networked World" called for "a common, open platform to support communities of developers and learners in ways that enable both to take advantage of advances in the learning sciences." We review research on science inquiry learning environments (ILEs)…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Active Learning, Educational Environment
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