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Direct linkChan, Selena – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2020
This book gathers work from over a decade of study, and seeks to better understand and support how learners become tradespeople. The research programme applies recent concepts from neuroscience, educational psychology and technology-enhanced learning to explain and help overcome the challenges of learning in trades-learning contexts. Due to the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Building Trades, Neurosciences, Educational Psychology
Rosander, Michael; Chiriac, Eva Hammar – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate how first-year students view the purpose of tutorial groups in problem-based learning. In all, 147 students from 24 groups participated, providing 399 statements. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. The results showed a focus on both learning and social influence. Learning involved the tutorial as…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Problem Based Learning, Group Dynamics, Data Analysis
Intratextual Persuasive Messages as Catalysts for HigherOrder Thinking: An Exploratory Investigation
Murphy, P. Karen; Andiliou, Andria; Firetto, Carla M.; Bowersox, Carissa M.; Baker, Markus; Ramsay, Crystal M. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
Facilitating students' acquisition of higherorder thinking skills is imperative in the 21st century. Although some types of text have been shown to enhance higherorder thinking, the effects of many novel forms of text have yet to be investigated. As such, the purpose of the present study was to explore the extent to which a relatively novel form…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Beliefs, Comprehension
Strimel, Greg – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2014
Students are seldom given an authentic experience within school that allows them the opportunity to solve real-life complex engineering design problems that have meaning to their lives and/ or the greater society. They are often confined to learning environments that are limited by the restrictions set by course content for assessment purposes and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education, Design
Download full textRazzak, Nina Abdul – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
There was a concern from faculty at Bahrain Teachers' College that undergraduate Bahraini students lack the necessary competencies needed for success in educational contexts that are conducive to active, student-centered learning. It was decided that the students be introduced to a problem-based learning (PBL) strategy in one of their educational…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Richard, Lynne F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Computer technology is used as a mediational tool to support collaborative instructional methods. Computer support offers a platform for collaboration with the goal of scaffolding students' understanding, providing increased agency to the student for their own learning, and motivating students, as participants in a PBL process. In online PBL,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Educational Psychology, Computer Mediated Communication
Chen, Ching-Huei – Journal of Learning Design, 2009
This study reviews theories supporting the construction of student knowledge and found they rely upon theoretical operations with few pragmatic applications. A new paradigm of learning needs to emerge which focuses on how students actually construct their own knowledge, based on reconstructing current/past knowledge or experience, and their…
Descriptors: Models, Problem Solving, Problem Based Learning, Cognitive Style
De Simone, Christina – Teacher Development, 2008
Current educational reform movements emphasize preparing teachers for pedagogical problem solving in the classroom. This study examines the impact of problem-based learning on prospective teachers' problem-solving abilities. Two classes of prospective teachers were included in this study. The experimental class used problem-based learning while…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Educational Change
Peer reviewedEdens, Kellah M. – College Teaching, 2000
Discusses the problem-based learning (PBL) model, including underlying principles and the three phases of the cyclical process: (1) problem development; (2) initiation of PBL events, inquiry, and investigation; and (3) problem solution. A case study illustrates use of PBL in an educational psychology class. A table lists sample problems for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Psychology, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E. – Educational Psychology Review, 2004
Problem-based approaches to learning have a long history of advocating experience-based education. Psychological research and theory suggests that by having students learn through the experience of solving problems, they can learn both content and thinking strategies. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method in which students learn…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Educational Psychology, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
Siegel, Marcelle A. – 2002
Preservice teachers in an Educational Psychology course wrote cases about their field placements and analyzed the cases using perspectives from the learning sciences. The course helped student teachers use the learning sciences to enhance instruction. It engaged them in collaborative problem solving which required them to use theory as a tool for…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Educational Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Daniel L.; Brophy, Sean; Lin, Xiaodong; Bransford, John D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1999
Describes a software shell, STAR.Legacy, designed to guide attempts to help students learn from case, problem, and project-based learning. STAR.Legacy supports the integration of four types of learning environments: learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered. Describes how a STAR.Legacy constructed for an…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Environment
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
