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Chavan, Pankaj; Mitra, Ritayan; Srree Murallidharan, Janani – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Student and teacher perceptions of course content are critical components of the teaching and learning process. Studies that have investigated such perceptions offer conflicting evidence of both convergence and divergence between the perceptions of students and teacher. These studies used data modalities such as interviews and surveys, which have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Difficulty Level, Engineering Education
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Weurlander, Maria; Cronhjort, Mikael; Filipsson, Lars – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This study reports on an educational development initiative where peer instruction was used instead of traditional lectures in a calculus course for first-year engineering students. The aim of the study was to explore students' experiences of this method. Data were collected by means of an open-ended questionnaire on two occasions: early and late…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Content Analysis
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Chi, Michelene T. H.; Kang, Seokmin; Yaghmourian, David L. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
In 2 separate studies, we found that college-age students learned more when they collaboratively watched tutorial dialogue-videos than lecture-style monologue-videos. In fact, they can learn as well as the tutees in the dialogue-videos. These results replicate similar findings in the literature showing the advantage of dialogue-videos even when…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language)
Clark, Kevin R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In many of the secondary classrooms across the country, including the research site for this study, students are passively engaged in the mathematics content, and academic performance can be described, at best, as mediocre. This action research study sought to bring about improvements in student engagement and performance in the secondary…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use