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Söylemez, Nesrin Hark – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
This study examines the academic dishonesty tendencies, created metaphors and opinions on the "ethics" and "science and research ethics" and "opinions on the taken course" of prospective teachers who took the science and research ethics course. Embedded mixed design was preferred. Academic dishonesty tendency scale,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Figurative Language, Cheating
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Petchey, Sara; Treagust, David; Niebert, Kai – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Abstract concepts dominate university science teaching, and much of this content is taught without sufficient connection to students' prior knowledge or everyday experiences. As this can be problematic for students, the aim of this research was to determine the utility and effectiveness of a professional development module on using analogies to…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
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Markauskaite, Lina – Research Papers in Education, 2020
Could knowledge work practices become pervasive in formal education? Could knowledge creation pedagogies help us close the gap between graduates' knowledge work competencies and fast changing needs of the knowledge society? In this commentary, I first revisit the most notable contributions of this special issue. Then, I turn to some overarching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Education Work Relationship, Knowledge Economy, Learning Processes
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Banerjee, Mita; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
One of the central challenges educators face today, especially in higher education, is the gap between warranted (domain-specific) knowledge and the prior beliefs students hold about certain concepts and phenomena (preconceptions). In the Internet age, students often self-directedly acquire knowledge from an increasingly large number of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
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Graff, Daniel; Clark, Mark A. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
Universities increasingly incorporate multidisciplinary design projects into their curriculum to better prepare their students for the labor market. In these projects, student team members of various disciplinary backgrounds develop new product or service concepts for organizational partners. This structure enables students to learn not only from…
Descriptors: Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects, Teamwork
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Erginer, Ergin – Education, 2011
In recent years, with the influence of the constructivist perspective, the examination of students' own attitudes to learning processes have become important. Students' perception of the world, and their explanation of their learning experiences shapes their learning needs in the future. Therefore, it will be helpful for instructors to learn how…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Opinions, Visual Aids
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Mazen, Abdelmagid – Journal of Management Education, 2008
This article integrates behavioral approaches into the teaching and learning of quantitative subjects with application to statistics. Focusing on the emotional component of learning, the article presents a system dynamic model that provides descriptive and prescriptive accounts of learners' anxiety. Metaphors and the metaphorizing process are…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Anxiety, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Kloss, Robert J. – College Teaching, 1987
The ways in which teachers conceptualize their institutions and their students are interrelated and will control the process of learning. Teachers must assume a different metaphorical stance toward their students in order to facilitate their education. Two metaphorical roles are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, College Instruction, Figurative Language, Higher Education