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Monika Mithans; Joca Zurc; Milena Ivanuš Grmek – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
The quality of educational work is inextricably linked to many factors at the system, school, teacher, and student levels. This research was carried out within the project 'Education of Teachers as a Factor of Providing High-quality Life-long Learning in the Learning Society/The Society of Fast Socio-economic Changes and Unsure Future', funded by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 9
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Shuaizhen Jin; Zheng Zhong; Kunyan Li; Chen Kang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study utilizes a comparative experimental research method to investigate the effect of the Predict, Observe, Explain, and Evaluate (POEE) learning strategy in an immersive virtual environment (IVE) on two types of learners with different levels of prior knowledge. One type referred to as Highly Experienced and Knowledgeable (HEK) learners,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Prior Learning, Electronic Learning
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Papadopoulou, Theopisti – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
The link between active learning and the development of graduate attributes has been cogently advocated in pedagogical research. Despite the extensive adoption of fieldwork in environmental and social sciences, enigmatically, there are no reported applications of fieldwork in construction and related engineering disciplines. This paper employs a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, College Graduates, Engineering Education
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Churngchow, Chidchanok; Rorbkorb, Narongsak; Petchurai, On-tip; Tansakul, Jirawat – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This research aimed to discover appropriate learning management to suit students' different learning styles within a multicultural society at state-run universities using mixed methods research of explanatory design. A survey was first conducted followed by focus group discussions. It was found that the students consisted of all four types of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning
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Heiland, Teresa L. – Research in Dance Education, 2019
This statistical study of 272 dancers, ages 18-96, using Kolb Learning Styles Inventory 4.0, identifies dominant learning cycles, learning styles, and learning style flexibility of the dance participants, and subgroups of notation users, and then compares these results to existing results from other disciplines. The research reveals the depth and…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Cognitive Style, Student Characteristics, Teaching Methods
Jenkins, Davis; Brown, Amy E.; Fay, Maggie P.; Lahr, Hana – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This guide is intended to help community college leaders understand the costs involved in implementing guided pathways reforms and develop plans for funding and sustaining them. It is based on research at six institutions that have implemented large-scale changes based on the guided pathways model, which focuses on supporting students to enter and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Change, Change Strategies
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Akerson, Valarie, Ed.; Shelley, Mack, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES)-www.iconses.net which took place on October 21-24, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
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Sibthorp, Jim; Furman, Nate; Paisley, Karen; Gookin, John; Schumann, Scott – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
Transfer of learning from adventure programs remains of critical interest to adventure education professionals. Although some research has investigated what transfers, notably less has focused on mechanisms that might influence transfer. This paper explores the mechanisms of transfer reported by a stratified random sample of National Outdoor…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Adventure Education, Transfer of Training, Active Learning
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Moran, Seana; Kornhaber, Mindy; Gardner, Howard – Educational Leadership, 2006
Education policymakers often go astray when they attempt to integrate multiple intelligences theory into schools, according to the originator of the theory, Howard Gardner, and his colleagues. The greatest potential of a multiple intelligences approach to education grows from the concept of a profile of intelligences. Each learner's intelligence…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Theories, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
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McKinney, Kathleen; Vacca, Karey; Medvedeva, Maria A.; Malak, Janice – Teaching Sociology, 2004
In this article, we report on a study about the experiences of graduating sociology majors with out-of-class learning opportunities (OOCLO). Research questions included the following: (1) What is the nature of participation in out-of-class learning for our sociology majors? (2) What barriers do students see to engaging in such experiences? (3)…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Sociology, Barriers, Correlation
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Lazinica, Aleksandar, Ed.; Calafate, Carlos, Ed. – InTech, 2009
The widespread deployment and use of Information Technologies (IT) has paved the way for change in many fields of our societies. The Internet, mobile computing, social networks and many other advances in human communications have become essential to promote and boost education, technology and industry. On the education side, the new challenges…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Experiential Learning