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Michelsen, Svein; Vabø, Agnete; Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne; Kvam, Endre – European Journal of Education, 2017
This article highlights the significance of professional and disciplinary spaces in the shaping of Learning Outcomes (Los) in higher education. It is based on empirical studies of three programmes (engineering, the humanities and medicine) at two Norwegian universities. The results demonstrate both similarities and differences in the dynamics of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Engineering Education
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Aditomo, Anindito; Goodyear, Peter; Bliuc, Ana-Maria; Ellis, Robert A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Learning through inquiry is a widely advocated pedagogical approach. However, there is currently little systematic knowledge about the practice of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in higher education. This study examined descriptions of learning tasks that were put forward as examples of IBL by 224 university teachers from various disciplines in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Razzouk, Nabil Y.; Razzouk, Jay N. – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
"Analysis", the core of graduate business education is probably one of the least understood and most misrepresented learning activities. Everyone seems to claim that they know it, yet most seem unable to actually define it or practice it. This paper reviews Bloom's taxonomy of learning objectives with a special focus on "analysis." More…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Educational Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Visual Aids
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Dolmans, Diana H. J. M. – Academic Medicine, 1993
A University of Limburg (Netherlands) medical school study investigated the relationship between student-generated learning issues and faculty instructional objectives (i.e., the effectiveness of the problems posed) in a problem-centered obstetrics and child development curriculum. Subjects were 120 students and 12 faculty. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Cheren, Mark – Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 1990
In response to HE 528 462, the author suggests the use of student-generated learning issues in problem-based medical education should place more emphasis on mechanisms in the generation of learning issues, the ramifications of various degrees of student input into the identification of issues, and the role of teacher-learner negotiations in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Learner Controlled Instruction
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Summers, Rob; Haavik, Coryce; Summers, Beverley; Moola, Farhana; Lowes, Mariette; Enslin, Gill – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2001
Describes the educational quality assurance program implemented in South Africa in 1995 and its effects on pharmacy education, including development of outcomes-based competency standards for entry-level pharmacists. Describes an integrated, problem-based pharmacy program established jointly between formerly non-white and white institutions and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Hatala, Robert J. – New Directions for Experiential Learning, 1982
Moving problem-centered, experiential programs into the mainstream of graduate and professional education will require more formal mechanisms for leadership. Students of graduate education programs that infuse the disciplinary study of academe with the applied perspective of professional practice gain broader contact with the problems of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Experiential Learning, Graduate Study
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Yeung, Ella; Au-Yeung, Stephanie; Chiu, Thomas; Mok, Nicola; Lai, Patrick – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Discusses problem-based learning and describes a study at Hong Kong Polytechnic University that compared learning issues generated by students with the objectives set by teaching staff, and explored students' self-directed learning practice and the ability to search for information in meeting the learning objectives. (LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; And Others – 1992
A method is presented for collecting information about the match between students' learning issues in problem-based learning and teachers' objectives. Subjects were 82 second-year medical students at the University of Limburg in Maastricht (Netherlands) in a problem-based curriculum. During a unit on pregnancy, childbirth, and child development,…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Barrows, Howard S. – Journal of Dental Education, 1998
Describes "authentic" problem-based learning (PBL) as a specific teaching method that addresses all the educational objectives possible with PBL: acquisition of a rich body of deeply understood knowledge; development of effective clinical problem-solving skills; and development of an insatiable curiosity and a desire for continuous learning…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives
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Moskovitz, Myron – Journal of Legal Education, 1992
The case method of teaching law was designed for a scholarly, not practical purpose. Because the main purpose of legal education today is to train lawyers, the problem method should be used as the primary strategy in the standard large class and core course in every year of law school. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives
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Barrows, Howard S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
Discussion of the problem-based learning approach in higher education looks at its origins in medical curricula, characteristics of the original method, the variety of educational objectives possible with this approach, problem-based curriculum development, advantages of the method, and its use outside the medical domain. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Curriculum Design
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Domin, Daniel S. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1999
Develops a taxonomy of styles for teaching general chemistry laboratory courses. Differentiates between expository instruction, inquiry instruction, discovery instruction, and problem-based instruction in the laboratory. Reviews research on the effectiveness of the various types of instruction. Contains 68 references. (WRM)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Inquiry
Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; And Others – 1992
A method was developed for assessing the extent to which a test reflects the topics addressed in the problems presented in a problem-based learning environment (curriculum validity). The intended curriculum for a unit from the second year of medical school at the University of Limburg in Maastricht (Netherlands) was analyzed, and an 132-item topic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Curriculum, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives
Shimoda, Todd A.; Takayesu, James Kimo – 1997
The learner's role in acquiring cognitive and interpersonal skills in a first-year medical school course in neurobiology (12 students) that used a small-group, problem-based teaching method. Objectives of the study were to: (1) determine the cognitive and interpersonal skills the students believed were important; (2) evaluate how well the students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum, Educational Objectives, Group Dynamics
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