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Bagayoko, Diola; Kelley, Ella L.; Hasan, Saleem – College Teaching, 2000
Recommends that teachers wishing to develop the problem-solving expertise of students make concentrated and sustained efforts to develop students' knowledge base, skill base, resource base, strategy-experience base, and behavioral base. Application in a General Physics course resulted in improved problem solving performance which is partially…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Physics, Problem Solving
Davis, Fran; Steiger, Arlene – 1993
A project was undertaken to test feminist teaching strategies designed to improve women students' confidence and engagement in the physical sciences classroom. The strategies under study included peer-support partnerships, writing in the learning process, and systematic self-disclosure by the teacher. In each of four semesters from 1991 to 1992,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges, Educational Strategies