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School Culture's Openness to Creative Solutions and Teachers' Inquiry-Based Teaching: A Multinational Study of Asian and European Countries
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Ju-Hui Wei; Hsueh-Hua Chuang; Thomas J. Smith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
Previous research suggests that teachers' adoption of inquiry-based teaching is influenced by school culture's openness to creative solutions, with teachers' self-efficacy in inquiry-based teaching acting as a mediator. However, considering the potential impact of local educational and socio-cultural context on teachers' behavior, findings from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, School Culture, Active Learning
Effects of Integrating Maternity VR-Based Situated Learning into Professional Training on Students' Learning Performances
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Ching-Yi Chang; Patcharin Panjaburee; Shao-Chen Chang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Educators have recognized the importance of providing a realistic learning environment which helps learners to not only comprehend learning content, but also to link the content to practical problems. Such an environment can hence foster problem-solving skills in nursing training. However, when learners interact in a virtual environment with rich…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Context Effect, Nursing Education, Technology Integration
Does Project-Based Learning Work in Different Local Contexts? A Colombian Caribbean Case Study
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de la Puente Pacheco, Mario Alberto; Guerra Florez, Dick; de Oro Aguado, Carlos Mario; Llinas Solano, Humberto – Educational Review, 2021
Studies on the effectiveness of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method in different local contexts require non-conventional approaches that clarify if the methodology is suitable in other settings compared to the conventional teaching practice. This study examined students' perception of the effectiveness of the PBL method in developing…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Context Effect, Local Issues
Try This: STEM Scooter Design
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Preston, Christine – Teaching Science, 2018
This paper outlines a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) learning experience for children in the early years of school. It builds on STEM education in early childhood with a shared purpose, "to help children to explore and make sense of their world using childrelevant and appropriate contexts" (Preston, 2018 p. 137).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Learning Experience, Early Childhood Education
The Impact of Context on Children's Performance in Solving Everyday Mathematical Problems with Real-World Settings
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Huang, Hsin-Mei E. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
This study aimed to investigate children's performance and perception of problem difficulty in solving everyday mathematical problems with familiar versus unfamiliar contexts. In addition, the ways that children identify the similarities in problem-solving approaches between problem settings and everyday shopping were also examined. Forty-eight…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Active Learning, Grade 4, Familiarity
9 Hard Things to Do in Order to Sustain School Reform. Newsletter
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Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005
The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement invited Ann Chafin to share her thoughts and ideas about sustaining school reform. Chafin, chief of Program Improvement and Family Support Branch of the Maryland State Department of Education, was a speaker at the annual Institute for CSR State Coordinators held May 9-10 in Washington,…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation