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He, Yunfeng; Du, Xiangyun; Toft, Egon; Zhang, Xingli; Qu, Bo; Shi, Jiannong; Zhang, Huan; Zhang, Hui – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
In daily patient-history taking and diagnosis practice, doctors ask questions to gather information from patients and narrow down diagnostic hypotheses. Training medical students to be efficient problem solvers through the use of questioning is therefore important. In this study, the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) and lecture-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Medical Education, Problem Based Learning
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Akinde, Oluwatoyin Adenike – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This work is a pilot study on the learning outcomes of students, who were taught a research course for seven weeks, using didactic and Socratic instruction methods. The course was taught in two sessions concurrently. The students were divided into two groups (A and B) and both groups were taught either with Socratic instruction method or didactic…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Outcomes of Education, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
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Chiu, Chiung-Hui; Cheng, Hsiao-Wei; Wu, Chiu-Yi – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The authors examined whether applying questioning review better enhances elementary level students' learning from technology-enhanced coediting-based note taking than does traditional reading review. A nonequivalent comparison group quasi-experimental design was implemented and replicated on four independent units. Two sixth grade elementary…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students
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Burns, Lawrence R.; Stephenson, Paul L.; Bellamy, Katy – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Although students make some epistemological progress during college, most graduate without developing meaning-making strategies that reflect an understanding that knowledge is socially constructed. Using a pre-test-post-test design and a within-subjects 2 × 2 mixed-design ANOVA, this study reports on empirical findings which support the Socratic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Lecture Method, Psychology
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Bulgren, Janis A.; Marquis, Janet G.; Deshler, Donald D.; Lenz, B. Keith; Schumaker, Jean B. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2013
This purpose of the study was to determine the effects of teachers using the Question Exploration Routine (QER) in regularly scheduled secondary-level English Language Arts classes to help students answer questions about the development and use of main ideas in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Questions were posed in both…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Language Arts, English Instruction, High School Students
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Maskiewicz, April Cordero; Griscom, Heather Peckham; Welch, Nicole Turrill – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
In this study, we used targeted active-learning activities to help students improve their ways of reasoning about carbon flow in ecosystems. The results of a validated ecology conceptual inventory (diagnostic question clusters [DQCs]) provided us with information about students' understanding of and reasoning about transformation of inorganic and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Class Size, Class Activities, Learning Activities
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Joyner, Michael J.; Charkoudian, Nisha; Curry, Timothy B.; Eisenach, John H.; Wehrwein, Erica A. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
In this article, we review how we interact with medical students in our efforts to teach blood pressure regulation and systemic cardiovascular control along with related elements of respiratory and exercise physiology. Rather than provide a detailed lecture with key facts, we attempted to outline our approach to teaching integrative cardiovascular…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Exercise Physiology, Teaching Methods
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Ghilay, Yaron; Ghilay, Ruth – Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
The study examined a new asynchronous model for online teaching, learning and assessment, called OTLA. It is designed for higher-education institutions and is based on LMS (Learning Management System) as well as other relevant IT tools. The new model includes six digital basic components: text, hypertext, text reading, lectures (voice/video),…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Higher Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Brogan, Justin R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The current study investigated the Lecture Teaching Method and Socratic Teaching Method to determine if there was a relationship between pedagogical methods and Counselor Self-Efficacy (CSE). A course in Advanced Professional Development was utilized to determine if teaching methods could affect student perceptions of competence to practice…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Professional Development, Lecture Method, Questioning Techniques
York, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The implementation of constructivist teaching strategies has vast professional benefits in nursing education through the promotion of critical thinking skills, as students must demonstrate success on the National Council Licensing Examination for Registered Nurses and ultimately perform competently within the nursing profession. While literature…
Descriptors: Nurses, Associate Degrees, Critical Thinking, Nursing Students
Pollio, Howard R. – Teaching/Learning Issues, 1989
This pamphlet discusses the use of questioning in the college classroom and its contribution to learning. Starting with a brief examination of the ways children question, discussions cover: (1) the effects of linguistic and socio-linguistic characteristics in questioning; (2) questions in psychotherapy, law, and opinion polling; (3) classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peterson, R. J. – Canadian Training Methods, 1972
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Methods, Lecture Method
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Zachry, William H. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Inquiry teaching requires students to engage in hypothesis formation, collection and evaluation of evidence, and the drawing of logical conclusions. Prerequisite skills for inquiry learning are discussed, and examples of inquiry learning in a college level general psychology course are presented. (RM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Discovery Learning, Higher Education
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Martyn, Margie A. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
As offerings of online courses, programs, and degrees continue to increase, universities are grappling for ways to assess and assure quality. The quality and quantity of interaction between faculty and students and among students constitutes a significant component of the definition of quality for any course, whether online or face-to-face. It…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Distance Education, Course Objectives, Online Courses
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection