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Suraishkumar, G. K. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
The statistical distribution of the student learning abilities in a typical undergraduate engineering class poses a significant challenge to simultaneously improve the learning of all the students in the class. With traditional instruction styles, the students with significantly high learning abilities are not satisfied due to a feeling of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Distributions, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities
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Tesfaye, Sewnet; Berhanu, Kassegn – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Education is a means by which people develop and acquire knowledge, skills, values and attitudes. It paves the way for development and plays a vital role (serves as a catalyst) in bringing socio-cultural, economical, technological, political and environmental advancements. The general objective of this study was to improve Second Year Tourism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Active Learning, Group Discussion
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Bilgin, Ibrahim; Karakuyu, Yunus; Ay, Yusuf – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method on undergraduate students' achievement and its association with these students' self-efficacy beliefs about science teaching and pinions about PBL. The sample of the study consisted of two randomly chosen classes from a set of seven classes enrolled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students
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Brophy, Caroline; Hahn, Lukas – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
In this paper, we describe an in-class experiment that is easy to implement with large groups of students. The experiment takes approximately 15-20 minutes to run and involves each student completing one of four types of Sudoku puzzles and recording the time it takes to completion. The resulting data set can be used as a teaching tool at an…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method, Educational Experiments, Puzzles
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Al-Balushi, Sulaiman M.; Al-Aamri, Shamsa S. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
The current study explores the effectiveness of involving students in environmental science projects for their environmental knowledge and attitudes towards science. The study design is a quasi-experimental pre-post control group design. The sample was 62 11th-grade female students studying at a public school in Oman. The sample was divided into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Quasiexperimental Design
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Ibret, B. Unal; Recepoglu, Ergun; Karasu, Emine; Recepoglu, Serpil – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The aim of this study is to evaluate project studies in the 6th and 7th grades social studies courses of secondary schools according to opinions of students. This study is a descriptive research in the survey model. The sample is 880 students selected from 6th and 7th grades of 22 secondary schools randomly in central province of Kastamonu. As a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes