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Cecilia Madero-Gonzalez; Jesus Vazquez-Hernandez; Fernando Gonzalez Aleu – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to examine the impact of gamification on the five dimensions of meaningful learning (i.e. cooperative, active, authentic, constructive and intentional learning) and undergraduate student performance taking online lessons. Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, the authors conducted an experiment among undergraduate…
Descriptors: Gamification, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Engineering Education
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Xuyang Chen; Nirat Jantharajit; Phichittra Thongpanit – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of combining Collaborative Learning (CL) and Task-Based Learning Teaching (TBLT) in enhancing vocational students' analytical reading ability and writing skills. Method: Conducted at a vocational college in southern China, the study involved 192 students divided into an experiment group (n=25)…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Career and Technical Education, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning
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Paloian, Sierra; Doehler, Kirsten; Lahetta, Alexandra – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
A Statistics Practicum course is offered as another option besides an internship or research experience for students to fulfill a required statistics major capstone experience. This article discusses the first and fourth offering of this practicum course, which provides a unique perspective on the initial implementation of the course and its…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Statistics Education, Capstone Experiences, Practicums
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Field M. Watts; Jon-Marc G. Rodriguez – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are being increasingly implemented to broaden the opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in authentic research across STEM disciplines including chemistry. The present review synthesizes the literature on chemistry CUREs, encompassing 68 articles published between 2016 and 2022…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Mebert, Laura; Barnes, Roy; Dalley, Jacqueline; Gawarecki, Leszek; Ghazi-Nezami, Farnaz; Shafer, Gregory; Slater, Jill; Yezbick, Erin – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
Ample research has identified several features of a learning experience likely to enhance student learning, including collaboration, open-ended exploration, and problem-based learning in real-life scenarios. Missing is a model of how instructors might combine these elements into a single project that works flexibly across disciplines and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Joseph, Anthony; Lawler, James – Information Systems Education Journal, 2020
Colleges are engaging students in collaborative design courses on diverse projects. More of the courses could be focusing on cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship projects including computer science and information systems students with other disciplinary students. The authors of this paper describe a course that is focusing on collaborative design…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Entrepreneurship, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning
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Almulla, Mohammed Abdullatif – SAGE Open, 2020
The prevalence of project-based learning (PBL) has increased significantly, contributing to serious discussions about its advent. PBL's critics doubt whether accentuating the practice supports teachers in using a technocratic method in education, instead of promoting instruction that is responsive to students' ideas. Thus, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Instructional Effectiveness, Learner Engagement
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Sirisrimangkorn, Lawarn – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
Project-based learning has been variously integrated into EFL instruction to promote learners' language learning and skills. The objectives of this research study were to examine the effects of project-based learning using presentation on EFL undergraduate learners' speaking skills. Furthermore, this study sought to explore learners' opinions on…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Business English
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Karnchanachari, Samertip – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
Self-efficacy and positive attitude are among factors contributing to success in language learning, yet encouraging these important traits among language learners in the classroom is often difficult. This study aims to investigate the extent to which a collaborative authentic task helped promote communicative self-efficacy and a positive attitude…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Positive Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Cooperative Learning
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Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi; Migdadi, Anwar Solaiman; Al-Alawneh, Muhammad Khalid – Teaching English with Technology, 2020
This study examines the potential effectiveness of Web 2.0-supported project-based learning in Jordanian EFL eleventh-grade students' speaking fluency and accuracy of grammar and vocabulary. The participants of the study were 43 female students who were purposefully selected from two schools at Al-Koura Directorate of Education (Jordan) in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Integration, Active Learning
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Marden, Mariolina Pais; Herrington, Jan – Educational Media International, 2020
This paper describes a research study that investigated foreign language students' collaborative practice in a blended, authentic learning environment. A group of intermediate and advanced level students of Italian at an Australian university interacted and collaborated with each other and with a group of native speaker mentors through a web-based…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Design
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Placklé, Inge; Könings, Karen D.; Struyven, Katrien; Libotton, Arno; van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G.; Engels, Nadine – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Stakeholders in vocational education have difficulties communicating and collaborating on the design of education because they often lack a shared understanding of what constitutes effective student learning. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the perspectives of teacher educators, teachers and students on good education in vocational…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Vocational Education, Teacher Educators, Instructional Effectiveness
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Struyf, Annemie; De Loof, Haydée; Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; Van Petegem, Peter – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
In this paper, we explore how students' engagement varies in different STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) learning environments. More specifically, we focus on the significance of a learning environment applying an integrated STEM (iSTEM) approach and the significance of STEM learning environments' student-centredness. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, STEM Education, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
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Corey M. Johnson; Kimberly A. Green; Betty J. Galbraith; Carol M. Anelli – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
The learning goals of a lower division honors course, Science as a Way of Knowing, include critical thinking, scientific literacy, quantitative reasoning, communication, and teamwork. To help students develop skills and competencies for the course learning outcomes, we used a case study and developed scaffolded activities and assignments that…
Descriptors: Tests, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Authentic Learning