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Solomon, Erin D.; Repice, Michelle D.; Mutambuki, Jacinta M.; Leonard, Denise A.; Cohen, Cheryl A.; Luo, Jia; Frey, Regina F. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Active learning with clickers is a common approach in high-enrollment, lecture-based courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In this study, we describe the procedures that faculty at one institution used when implementing clicker-based active learning, and how they situated these activities in their class sessions. Using a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mixed Methods Research, Active Learning, Audience Response Systems
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Paxton, Moragh; Frith, Vera; Kelly-Laubscher, Roisin; Muna, Natashia; van der Merwe, Mathilde – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Internationally, there has been increasing emphasis on the teaching of the academic literacies, particularly reading and writing, in higher education institutions. However, recent research is highlighting the need for more explicit teaching of multimodal forms of communication, such as the visual literacies, in undergraduate courses in a wide…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Biological Sciences, Earth Science, Visual Literacy
Jung, Ji yoon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive account on case-based instructional practices. Semester-long participant observation records in torts, marketing, and online instructional design classes, instructor interviews, course syllabi and teaching materials were used to describe the within-class complexity of the practices in terms…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Educational Practices
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Pettersson, Fanny; Olofsson, Anders D. – Education and Information Technologies, 2015
This paper examines possibilities and challenges when implementing distance teaching of theoretical content in a regionalized medical program (RMP). It will be argued that Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and the concepts of dominant and non-dominant activities, including conflicts and transitional actions, can lead to an understanding…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Large Group Instruction, Distance Education, Program Implementation
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Tay, Hui Yong – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Some writers (Black and Wiliam in "Phi Delta Kappan" 80(2):139-148, 1998; Clark 2012; Panadero and Jonsson in "Educational Research Review" 9:129-144, 2013) have hypothesized a link between formative assessments (FA) and self-regulated learning (SRL). FA give students an opportunity to play an active role in their learning…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Self Management, Interviews, Active Learning
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Guerin, Cally; Green, Ian – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
Team supervision of PhDs is increasingly the norm in Australian and UK universities; while this model brings many improvements on the traditional one-on-one research supervision, it also introduces new complexities. In particular, many students find the diversity of opinions expressed in teams to be confusing. Such diversity in supervisor feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Supervision, Supervisory Methods, Teamwork
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Therriault, Geneviève; Harvey, Léon – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
The authors analyse epistemological beliefs and their relationship to the knowledge developed by students engaged in a reorganized programme of training for secondary school teachers in Quebec. They examine two contexts for initial training: the training in their discipline that university students follow, and the practical training students…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Curriculum
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Ho, Mei-ching – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This study investigates the use of face-to-face and computer-mediated peer review in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing course to examine how different interaction modes affect comment categories, students' revisions, and their perceptions of peer feedback. The participants were an intact class of 13 students at a Taiwanese university.…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Intermode Differences
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Garraway, James; Bronkhorst, Joseph; Wickham, Sharman – South African Journal of Education, 2015
Students studying Civil Engineering (CE) at the Further Education and Training (FET) colleges spend periods of time in the classroom and workshop as well as in the workplace during experiential learning. The overall purpose of education and training in the college sector is generally understood as preparing students for employability, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Delivery Systems, Intermode Differences
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Seng, Ernest Lim Kok – International Education Studies, 2014
Conventional learning is based on low levels of students' participation where students are rarely expected to ask questions or to challenge the theories of the academic. A paradigm shift in curriculum has resulted in implementing student-centred learning (SCL) approach, putting students as the centre of the learning process. This mode of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Strategies
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Griffin, Cynthia C.; League, Martha B.; Griffin, Valerie L.; Bae, Jungah – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2013
In this exploratory study, teachers' use of standards-based, discourse practices and their students' mathematics learning in inclusive elementary mathematics classrooms were examined. Two beginning teachers (one third-grade teacher, one fourth-grade teacher) and six students identified with disabilities or as low performing in mathematics…
Descriptors: Accountability, Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Yi, Qin – English Language Teaching, 2012
Formative Evaluation is a method of evaluating a program while the program activities are forming or happening. Formative evaluation focuses on the "process" during which problems are timely spotted, corrected and adjustments made so that an intended goal can be accomplished. Through a four-month empirical research work with students of…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, English Instruction
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Lupton, Ruth; Hempel-Jorgensen, Amelia – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This paper starts from the propositions that (a) pedagogy is central to the achievement of socially just education and (b) there are existing pedagogical approaches that can contribute to more socially just outcomes. Given the ostensible commitments of the current English Government to reducing educational inequality and to the importance of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Milner, Andrea R.; Templin, Mark A.; Czerniak, Charlene M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of constructivist classroom contextual factors in a life science laboratory and a traditional science classroom on elementary students' motivation and learning strategy use. The Constructivist Teaching Inventory was used to examine classroom contextual factors. The Motivated Strategies for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Science, Learning Strategies, Science Laboratories
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Coker, David L., Jr.; Erwin, Eileen – Urban Education, 2011
In this case study, we examined the effects of two instructional methods, Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) and Collaborative Reasoning (CR), on students' written and oral arguments. Using an interview, we also explored students' understanding of academic arguments and their perceptions about the instruction. The students were 38 middle…
Descriptors: African American Students, Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Teaching Methods
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