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Direct linkLiu, Min; Pan, Zilong; Cai, Ying; Shao, Peixia; Han, Songhee – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2021
This study examined how 465 socioeconomically disadvantaged middle school students used a multimedia-enriched problem-based learning (PBL) program. Using a mixed-methods design, we investigated the impact of PBL on students' performance, and relationship among students' self-efficacy, attitude toward science, and performance. The findings showed…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Science Instruction, Academic Achievement, Skill Development
Cutucache, Christine E.; Luhr, Jamie L.; Nelson, Kari L.; Grandgenett, Neal F.; Tapprich, William E. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
Background: The Nebraska Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 4U (NE STEM 4U) program was initiated at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) in 2013. NE STEM 4U is a student-run, faculty-led program facilitating problem-based learning (PBL) sessions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for socioeconomically…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Problem Based Learning, Partnerships in Education
Download full textMelo, Veriene – Education Sciences, 2019
Actualizing education beyond the scope of traditional schooling and incorporating elements of critical pedagogy and social transformation are essential for efforts aiming to reduce inequalities and enhance the livelihoods of excluded populations. This article examines emancipatory education through a Freirean lens by considering its dimensions of…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Freedom, Critical Theory, Social Action
Donnison, Sharn; Marshman, Margaret – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2018
This paper details the psychosocial changes in a group of gifted and talented middle-years students who engaged in solving a community-based problem--the lack of a teenage-safe space in their regional Queensland town ("N"). Supported by a Knowledge Producing Schools pedagogy, the young people worked with their local council, teachers, a…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent Development, Student Empowerment, Individual Development
Peer reviewedGallagher, Shelagh A. – NASSP Bulletin, 2000
How can high schools counteract deterrents to achievement that disadvantaged students face? "Project P-BLISS: Problem-Based Learning in the Social Sciences" presents "hidden" disadvantaged gifted students with a curriculum that first captures their interest and challenges them to realize their true potential. (MLH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Ethics
Peer reviewedSerafino, Kathleen; Cicchelli, Terry – Education and Urban Society, 2003
Tested the effects of prior knowledge and two instructional models--structured problem solving and guided generation (GG)--on mathematical problem solving and transfer to an analogous task. Data on students with high and low prior knowledge highlighted significant main effects for prior knowledge, significant differences on transfer to analogous…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
Waks, Leonard J. – E-Learning, 2004
The current educational arrangements of advanced liberal democracies continue to isolate various ethnic and racial groups. Disadvantaged minority students attend inferior schools. The overreliance on the curriculum as a design for teaching and learning renders school learning less relevant for "knowledge work" jobs in network societies.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Academic Achievement, Social Networks, Minority Groups
