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Corbo, Anna Regina; Sasaki, Daniel Guilherme Gomes – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2021
In general, engineering students show little interest in the activities inherent in statistics subjects. This claim may be partly explained by the competition with other subjects in the first years of undergraduate courses, or by student perceived low attractiveness of the classes. In this context, several studies indicated that methodologies…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students
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Fernandes, Fábio A. O.; Fuchter Júnior, Nilo; Daleffe, Anderson; Fritzen, Daniel; Alves de Sousa, Ricardo J. – Education Sciences, 2020
Problem-based learning (PBL) approaches are well-accepted and disseminated and have been intensively employed in several engineering programs. This article aims to present a teaching experience in which PBL was applied in one course of a mechanical engineering graduation program. The PBL approach applied is described step-by-step as well as the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Engineering Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
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de Oliveira Souza, Leandro; Lopes, Celi Espasandin; Fitzallen, Noleine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
Statistics education has the potential to assist students to develop their identities and engage in problems and social contexts that assist in empowering them to act politically in the future. The actions and narrative reported in this paper seek to identify the way in which teachers could develop and implement statistical inquiries that utilize…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Statistics, Cultural Context
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Seman, Laio Oriel; Hausmann, Romeu; Bezerra, Eduardo Augusto – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2018
Contribution: This paper presents the "PBL classroom model," an agent-based simulation (ABS) that allows testing of several scenarios of a project-based learning (PBL) application by considering different levels of soft-skills, and students' perception of the methodology. Background: While the community has made great advances in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Vignettes, Classroom Environment
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Sobral, Dejano T. – Medical Teacher, 1998
A self-help group approach was used to enhance medical students' cooperative skills within an elective course. The task profile envisaged included team building, cooperative information search and problem-solving skills, and providing and receiving constructive feedback. Findings suggest that training for productive cooperative learning is useful…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Anatomy, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development
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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