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Rau, Martina A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Making connections among multiple visual representations is key to students' learning. This article considers two learning processes involved in connection making: explicit sense making of connections and implicit perceptual induction of connections. Instructional interventions support these processes via different problem types: sense-making…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Association (Psychology), Visual Aids, Undergraduate Students
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Imhof, Christof; Bergamin, Per; Moser, Ivan; Holthaus, Matthias – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
This article demonstrates how an adaptive instructional design for a physics module can be realized in a standard learning management system. We implemented a didactic design with physics-specific online exercises that were accompanied by either detailed or non-detailed instructions, depending on the results of the previous task (or a prior…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physics, Science Instruction, Integrated Learning Systems
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Withers, Michelle – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Finding the time for developing or locating new class materials is one of the biggest barriers for instructors reforming their teaching approaches. Even instructors who have taken part in training workshops may feel overwhelmed by the task of transforming passive lecture content to engaging learning activities. Learning cycles have been…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Change, Instructional Innovation, Learning Processes
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Stephens, Karol – Science Scope, 2012
Establishing relevant applications for the science curriculum can be a challenge. However, the key that opens science for students is within a teacher's grasp: It is as simple as bringing science connections into his or her classroom through community resources and taking the students to the science that is available. The author encourages…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Curriculum Development, Learning Processes, Learning Experience
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Chen, C. S.; And Others – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1984
Determined effects of including supplementary readings designed to help students (N=233) relate physics to other fields. Both achievement and attitude were measured and significant improvement differences were found for both due to the treatment. Sources for the supplemental readings are cited. (JM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Science, Generalization, Higher Education