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Oana Stanciu; Angela Jones; Nele Metzner; Yana Fandakova; Azzurra Ruggeri – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Successful active learning has often been quantified with respect to either the efficiency of information search or the accuracy of subsequent recall. In this article, we explored the hypothesis that children's memory is influenced by the types of information search strategies they implement, which may emphasize different aspects of the task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Memory, Preadolescents
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Susan Pike; Sandra Austin; Richard Greenwood; Karin Bacon – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This paper presents findings from a research project that investigated the aspects of inquiry-based learning (IBL), specifically experiences of teacher inquiry, within initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. The participants in the project were four teacher educators and 127 student teachers with the teacher educators being the research team.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Teacher Educators, Inquiry
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Vale, Isabel; Barbosa, Ana – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Learning is an active enterprise, where three dimensions stand out, cognitive, social, and physical, and, in addition, not all students learn in the same way. Grounded on these ideas, this article reports a study that aims to understand and characterize the performance of pre-service teachers when experiencing active learning strategies during…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Mathematics Education, Preservice Teachers, Learning Strategies
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Rezaei, Ali Reza – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Providing an active learning environment and engaging students in classroom discussion could be quite challenging. This study used a quasi-experimental method to manipulate students' incentives for participation in group discussion to investigate its impact on students' learning outcomes. Two research methods courses taught over four years by the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Student Participation, Group Discussion, Active Learning
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Inmaculada Ortiz Martín; Ángel Del Espino Pérez; Estefanía García Luque; Enrique Viguera Mínguez – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
The great development of high-throughput molecular biology techniques and the consequent generation of massive data have made Bioinformatics essential for undergraduate Bioscience students. The importance of this scientific discipline is evidenced by the huge number of specialized publications, tools, and databases available. Training in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Molecular Structure, Biology
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Emel Birer; Esin Hasgül; Elif Gizem Metin – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2025
Design education includes many pursuits that deal with creativity, thinking and visual communication techniques in the learning process. This study aims to create a participatory learning algorithm based on a location, while measuring the spatial impact through an emergent situation. The exemplified issue is determined as fire that emerged due to…
Descriptors: Design, Algorithms, Climate, Environmental Education
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Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Karalyn E. McRae; Andrew B. Leger – Learning Environments Research, 2024
"Active learning classrooms" are purpose-built learning spaces designed to facilitate active learning strategies. While sometimes constructed as new rooms, active learning classrooms may also be retrofit from existing learning spaces. The ongoing evaluation of active learning classrooms helps to generate new research insights,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Teacher Surveys
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D. Patrick Saxon; Nara M. Martirosyan – Community College Enterprise, 2023
Corequisite developmental mathematics is an instructional model designed to support underprepared college students in completing their gateway math requirements. A transition to this model typically requires changes in pedagogy and a commitment to the integration of learning support with course content and instruction. This research garnered input…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, College Students, Mathematics Education
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Kristy L. Daniel; Daniel Ferguson; E. Austin Leone; Carrie J. Bucklin – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Phylogenetic tree diagrams are commonly found in introductory biology curricula and represent the evolutionary relationships of organisms. Tree-thinking, or the ability to accurately interpret, use, and generate these phylogenetic representations, involves a challenging set of skills for students to learn. Although many introductory biology…
Descriptors: Flow Charts, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty
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Christian Schill; Samantha Panich; Mary F. Barbe; Maryellen E. Gusic; Judith Litvin – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
First-year medical students are often challenged by the rapid pace and large volume of content that must be learned. Peer teaching has emerged as a supportive educational strategy. However, the most effective strategies for training peer tutors (PTs) for their role are not known. This paper examines the use of an Objective Structured Teaching…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Mentors, Peer Teaching
Destinee Schwendemann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, correlational study was to determine if there was a correlation between first-time pass rates on the USMLE Step 1 and the use of active learning strategies in medical school classrooms. For the utility of this study, active learning strategies were defined as any activity in which medical…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Medical Students
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Connie Svabo, Editor; Michael Shanks, Editor; Chunfang Zhou, Editor; Tamara Carleton, Editor – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2025
This edited volume is an invitation to redesign STEM higher education. It shows the way to active learning in diverse scenarios and provides educators, leaders and policymakers with a visionary approach to active learning and hands-on examples of how education can help students navigate complexity and unpredictability--the challenges of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
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Mor Deshen; Nava Cohen – Journal of Jewish Education, 2025
This study proposes a new learning strategy for teaching biblical texts using visual design strategies. Traditionally, biblical texts have been taught using a teacher-centered transmission approach, which does not engage digital students, who are accustomed to visually accessing information. The proposed learning strategy introduces an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Biblical Literature, Visual Learning
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Che, Afa'anwi Ma'abo – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
Active teaching and learning support pedagogies typically require student vocal participation in the classroom. However, very little is known about strategies used to promote student voice especially in teacher-dominated classroom cultures in many parts of the developing world. This paper reports action research that explored student responses and…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Information Dissemination, Learner Engagement
Salter, Margaret Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Evaluating the perceptions of active learning strategies is often seen from the perspective of the learners at the primary and secondary education levels. Additional data on beliefs of active learning in higher education such as of faculty members is needed. Active learning strategies are on the front line in education as a method to enhance…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Learning Strategies
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