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Duckworth, Eleanor – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
In this commentary, summarized from a recent interview, the author reminisces about a career dedicated to critical exploration in the classroom. She discusses the formation of the Moon Group, a group of teachers who met over a period of 25 years to study the behaviour of the moon. Duckworth later describes an exercise in which her students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Astronomy
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Al'Adawi, Sharifa Said Ali – English Language Teaching, 2017
The classroom environment should support students' autonomy through teaching and assessment methods. This article highlights students' perceptions about the value of implementing seminars as a teaching and an assessment method in a children's literature course in a college of applied sciences (XCAS). Additionally, preparation considerations and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Seminars, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Omar, M. K. Al-Mahasneh; Mohammad, N. M. Ayasrah; Shima, M. S. Yahyaa; Raed, A. Al-Kriemeen; Ali, S. Al-Swalha – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2020
The present study aimed to identify the favorite methods of teaching and evaluation among students in university colleges. The study adopted a descriptive survey design; self-administered copies of the questionnaire were used to generate data from 1638 students at university colleges, selected by a random sample method. Frequency and percentage…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Preferences, College Students
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Ana C. Maia; Lauren Contreras; Trisha Teig – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2024
By incorporating the culturally relevant leadership learning model (CRLL) into the leadership learning framework (LLF), this article provides leadership educators with an inclusive approach to leadership learning. The authors illustrate how educators can integrate the five dimensions of campus climate into leadership knowledge, observation,…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Leadership Training, Inclusion, Faculty
Michaud, Kim M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation describes a mixed method design study on the social validity of a multi-media job search tool, the YES tool, at a four-year Comprehensive Transition Program at an East Coast University. The participants included twelve students, randomly selected from those who, with their parents' assent, agreed to volunteer for this study…
Descriptors: College Students, Job Search Methods, Multimedia Materials, Mixed Methods Research
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Hirshfield, Laura; Koretsky, Milo D. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2018
The use of problem-based learning (PBL) is gaining attention in the engineering classroom as a way to help students synthesize foundational knowledge and to better prepare students for practice. In this work, we study the discourse interactions between 27 student teams and two instructors in an engineering PBL environment to analyze how…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education, Gender Differences, Teacher Student Relationship
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Sun, Peijian; Yuan, Rui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This study explored the congruence and disparities among three groups of foreign language (Chinese, French, and German) students' and teachers' perceptions of collaborative/cooperative language learning (CLL) strategies in novice-level classroom contexts. A total of 168 participants from a university in the USA took part in this mixed-method…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mixed Methods Research
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Balaban, Rita A.; Gilleskie, Donna B.; Tran, Uyen – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
This research provides evidence that the flipped classroom instructional format increases student final exam performance, relative to the traditional instructional format, in a large lecture principles of economics course. The authors find that the flipped classroom directly improves performance by 0.2 to 0.7 standardized deviations, depending on…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Statistical Analysis, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Carbonel, Cyril; Grasset, Sébastien; Maysonnave, Jean – Physics Teacher, 2018
In astronomy, methods such as direct imaging or interferometry-based techniques (Michelson stellar interferometry for example) are used for observations. A particular advantage of interferometry is that it permits greater spatial resolution compared to direct imaging with a single telescope, which is limited by diffraction owing to the aperture of…
Descriptors: Astronomy, High School Students, Science Instruction, College Students
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Paskevicius, Michael; Knaack, Liesel – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2018
This paper presents the case of how a department of applied science went about implementing a tablet initiative in a two-year diploma program. Tablets were a required tool for entry into the program with a goal of reducing textbook purchase costs for students, mirroring industry standard practices in mobile device usage, and enabling collaborative…
Descriptors: Forestry, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
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Mierowsky, Ruth; Marcus, Nadine; Ayres, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study, generated from considerations of embodied cognition, observational learning, and cognitive load theory, investigated the effect of mimicking gestures on learning to play piano tasks. Fifty university students from an Australian University, with two different levels of piano-playing experience, were randomly assigned to one of the two…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Imitation, College Students, Nonverbal Communication
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Anwar, Khoirul – International Education Studies, 2016
This study aimed at exploring the connection between the use of group task and group cohesiveness. This study is very important because the nature of the learner's success is largely determined by the values of cooperation, interaction, and understanding of the learning objectives together. Subjects of this study are 28 students on the course…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Group Activities, Group Dynamics
Vu, Viet Quoc – ProQuest LLC, 2017
STEM education reform in higher education is framed around the need to improve student learning outcomes, increase student retention, and increase the number of underrepresented minorities and female students in STEM fields, all of which would ultimately contribute to America's competitiveness and prosperity. To achieve these goals, education…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Large Group Instruction, Introductory Courses, STEM Education
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Marbach-Ad, Gili; Rietschel, Carly Hunt – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
In this study, we used a case study approach to obtain an in-depth understanding of the change process of two university instructors who were involved with redesigning a biology course. Given the hesitancy of many biology instructors to adopt evidence-based, learner-centered teaching methods, there is a critical need to understand how biology…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Science, Biology, Teaching Methods
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Pereira, Diana; Flores, Maria Assunção; Niklasson, Laila – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
A review of articles published in "Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education," over the last eight years (2006-2013) on assessment in higher education, since the introduction of the Bologna process, is the subject of the paper. The first part discusses the key issue of assessment in higher education and the method used for selecting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Evaluation
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