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Morgan M. Bryant; Jen Riley – Marketing Education Review, 2024
Student engagement is a growing challenge within higher education, especially as technology continues to evolve and competition for attention rises. As a business discipline, many marketing students struggle to connect with the theory presented in the classroom and seek interactive, experiential learning opportunities. The authors created the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Marketing, Music, Learning Activities
English, Lyn D. – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
This article proposes an interconnected framework, "Ways of thinking in STEM-based Problem Solving," which addresses cognitive processes that facilitate learning, problem solving, and interdisciplinary concept development. The framework comprises critical thinking, incorporating critical mathematical modelling and philosophical inquiry,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Learning
April L. Millet; Emre Dinç; Timothy J. Bralower – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
This study aimed to examine the effect of four types of assessment on overall student success in an online college-level climate change course. Quizzes, midterms, lab assignments, and a capstone project as well as knowledge check questions were used to assess different aspects of student learning, consistent with Bloom's taxonomy hierarchy.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Test Format, Tests, Laboratory Experiments
Maria del Pilar Garcia-Chitiva; Juan C. Correa – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Is it possible to measure how critical soft skills like leadership or teamwork are from the viewpoint of graduate studies offerings? This paper provides a conceptual and methodological framework that introduces the concept of a bipartite network as a practical way to estimate the importance of soft skills as socio-emotional abilities trained in…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Graduate Study, Social Emotional Learning, Foreign Countries
Plotnikova, N. F.; Strukov, E. N. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Reforms taking place in the educational process of higher professional school impose new requirements on the quality of training students. Today, graduates of higher educational institutions are required to have new professional thinking, high mobility, competence, tolerance and focus on intra-group activities carried out in teams. With the team…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Cooperative Learning
Sagun, Richard Deanne; Prudente, Maricar – Educational Action Research, 2023
The learning environment plays a crucial role in the promotion of school science. Redesigning the science classroom into a metacognitive learning environment is imperative in developing students' 21st century skills -- communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative thinking. In this study, we exposed the students to a variety of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Action Research, Science Instruction
Soleas, Eleftherios; Bolden, Ben – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
Past innovation research has focused on business contexts and prodigy, leaving the insights of today's successful innovators in a range of fields overlooked in their utility to inform the education of our next generation of innovators. This mixed method study combined surveys (n = 500) and interviews (n = 30) of Canadian innovators to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Capacity Building, Motivation
Radziszewski, Elizabeth – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
This article describes the author's experience using SCAMPER, a creativity-building technique, in a creative problem-solving session that was conducted in an environmental conflict course to generate ideas for managing postconflict stability. SCAMPER relies on cues to help students connect ideas from different domains of knowledge, explore random…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creativity, Problem Solving, Political Science
Semilarski, Helin; Laius, Anne; Rannikmäe, Miia – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2019
The main aim of this research was to measure 10th and 12th grade students' biological conceptual understanding and competences through their upper secondary school studies. Data collection started at the beginning of the upper secondary school biology studies in the 10th grade. The same students participated in this research when they were in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Grade 12, Adolescents
McKeone, Alyssa; Caruso, Lenora; Bettle, Kailyn; Chase, Ashley; Bryson, Bridget; Schneider, Jean S.; Rule, Audrey C. – Online Submission, 2015
Gifted learners need opportunities for critical and creative thinking to stretch their minds and imaginations. Strategies for increasing complexity in the four core areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies were addressed using the Common Core and Iowa Core Standards through several methods. Descriptive adjective object…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Needs, State Standards, Difficulty Level

Garrison, D. R. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1991
A model of critical thinking is developed, encompassing problem solving and creative thinking. The central role of critical thinking in adult education is explored, concluding that development of the concept and how to teach it need attention. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking

Cordeiro, Patricia – Language Arts, 1988
Describes how a sixth grade teacher and her eleven students (with a typical range of math abilities) explored the mathematical concept of "infinity" through play. Discusses the pedagogy of critical/creative thinking. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
Montuori, Lucinda A.; Kimmel, Ellen B. – 1994
A study investigated the feasibility of teaching conceptual complexity to adults using an in-basket simulation. Training incorporated Kelly's components of differentiation and integration with Schroder's Cognitive Competencies and followed Lewin's Experiential Learning Model. Research participants in the original study were 24 women and 18 men,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking

Laster, Janet F. – Journal of Home Economics, 1982
This article presents the Practical Action Teaching Model and discusses its four phases: identification of the practical problem, practical reasoning or deliberation, action, and reflection. It incorporates intrinsically motivating, practical, value-based student problems that call for critical and creative thinking and offer opportunities for…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Home Economics Education

Clarke, John H. – College Teaching, 1988
College instructors can design discussion classes so that students use the concepts and processes of the discipline to evaluate facts and move toward reliable conclusions. Described are: discussion as a cycle of inquiry; creating tension around ideas; seeking causal relationships; scanning the factual base, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
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