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Nash, Ron – Corwin, 2023
Students have an endless capacity of positive energy that can be harnessed into deeper understanding. This notion lies at the heart of "The Power of We." Through a powerful combination of first-hand stories and expert research, author Ron Nash recounts his awakening to the truth that engaging students starts by involving them as active…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Classroom Environment, Learner Engagement
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Lamia Büsra Yesil; Ipek Saralar-Aras – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a case study that examined the importance of flexible learning spaces and student-centred pedagogies for facilitating effective teaching and learning in schools. By exploring the arrangement of learning spaces at the school level, the study compared a case school in Germany with the Future Classroom Lab Model.…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Classroom Environment, Space Utilization, Active Learning
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Yoon Ha Choi; Elli Theobald; Vicente Velasco; Sarah L. Eddy – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: Active learning, on average, increases student performance in STEM courses. Yet, there is also large variation in the effectiveness of these implementations. A consistent goal of active learning is moving students towards becoming active constructors of their knowledge. This emphasis means student engagement is of central importance.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Social Environment
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Catherine Pressimone Beckowski; Benjamin M. Torsney – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2025
More college students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines are enrolling in introductory statistics courses. In these courses, active learning, collaborative projects, and relatable content can help to support student learning, belonging, and engagement. In this study, we examined the effect of student-perceived peer, faculty, and classroom…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Statistics Education, Student Diversity, Active Learning
Ryan Williams; Bo Zhu; Max Pardo; Crystal Aguilera; Tara Zuber – American Institutes for Research, 2024
Prosocial and Active Learning (PAL) Classrooms is a year-long teacher professional development program designed to increase students' prosocial behavior and engagement in 5th grade mathematics and science classrooms that use active, team-based lessons by altering the way that teachers interact with students using research-based strategies. The…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Active Learning, Faculty Development, Learner Engagement
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Kennedy, Heather R.; Stafford, Gloria E. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2023
An "active learning" classroom design recognizes the importance of students becoming engaged in their own learning. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study compared student-reported data (n = 219) and used the "community of inquiry" framework to evaluate the impact of environmental features on students' experience. Students…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Student Experience, College Students
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Zhicheng Dai; Yue Yang; Zengzhao Chen; Ling Wang; Liang Zhao; Xiaoliang Zhu; Junxia Xiong – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Higher education is beginning to focus on how to effectively cultivate IoT engineers who possess both hard skills and soft skills. Therefore, from the perspective of activity theory and combining it with project-based learning, this study constructed a project-based learning framework based on activity theory and applied this framework to an IoT…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness
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de Borba, Gustavo Severo; Alves, Isa Mara; Campagnolo, Paula Dal Bó – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
This article explains the relationship between learning spaces and the furtherance of student engagement and enhancement of student-faculty interaction. Following a design-driven methodology and considering flexibility, interaction, and connectivity as core elements to classroom design, we have prototyped spaces and implemented them in 96…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
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Kelly C. Johnston; Camille S. Talbert; Nicole B. Sussman – Language Arts, 2024
Conceptualizing literacy as multidimensional, this study explores the intersection between literacy integration and children's literacy engagement by investigating how a researcher's workshop guided practice in integrating literacy with social studies. A year-long qualitative case study approach was used to examine how children actively engaged…
Descriptors: Literacy, Social Studies, Children, Active Learning
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Odum, Mary; Meaney, Karen S.; Knudson, Duane V. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
Three student engagement measures were collected for a class taught by an experienced instructor in two active learning classrooms with dissimilar seating arrangements. Student perception of engagement was similar between the learning spaces. However, instructor perception and researcher observation indicated greater engagement in the classroom…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design
McHugh, Maggie Lee – Corwin, 2023
Do you want your students to be more engaged in their mathematics lessons while also amplifying cultural relevancy and equity? If so, proceed to the next level of instruction with project-based learning (PBL)! This book provides the whole PBL game plan designed by an experienced, award-winning teacher and researcher. Whether you want to start with…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Active Learning, Student Projects, Learner Engagement
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Young, Barbara; Hynes, Wendy; Hynes, Morgan – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
While the interior design of classroom spaces has evolved to support active learning methods, few studies have isolated environment changes from curriculum changes to understand the impact of space on behavior (Brooks, Walker, & Baepler, 2014). Adapting an observation instrument from the Brooks (2012) study, "Space and Consequences",…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment
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Ian G. Anson – Journal of Political Science Education, 2025
In the modern American politics classroom, ideological and partisan conflict have the capacity to interfere with a healthy classroom environment. This problem is increasingly apparent when students engage questions at the heart of U.S. Constitutional design. By asking students to inhabit fictional roles with preferences and attitudes that may…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Design, Classroom Environment, Politics
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Brandon L. Gilbert – Childhood Education, 2024
This article describes a project-based social studies activity that gave young children the autonomy to photograph what they wanted within the classroom environment while interacting with peers. Social studies learning in the early years has great potential to offer active, playful, and meaningful experiences for children and can prepare young…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Preschool Education, Photography, Preschool Children
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Chacón-Díaz, Lucía B. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2020
Although active learning is well-known to positively impact student academic achievement, there is limited research on classroom behavior, interaction, and engagement in active learning settings. This research applied an explanatory case study method in order to describe students' behaviors, interactions, and engagement in an active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Student Behavior, Peer Relationship
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