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Diana Owen; Alissa Irion-Groth – Grantee Submission, 2024
This study examines the effectiveness of the Center for Civic Education's Project Citizen teacher professional development program and curriculum intervention in producing positive student learning outcomes that support civic engagement. Through Project Citizen, students identify and research a problem in their community, explore solutions,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Faculty Development, Problem Solving
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Li, Liang; Fleer, Marilyn; Yang, Ning – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
Research has suggested that system-wide professional development needs to embrace ongoing and sustainable processes such as critical reflection, being within a community of practice and the co-creation of new practices within and across early childhood systems. However, there is little research on how professional development can be designed in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Gail Matthews-Denatale; Laurie Poklop; Rachel Plews; Mary English – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
In summer 2020, Northeastern University developed a fully online curricular pathway for incoming fall first-year undergraduate students who could not learn in residence. This pathway included 18 Global Challenge (GC) courses, each designed around project-based learning (PBL), grounded in a complex problem defined by Northeastern University…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
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Stanley Richards; Nancy Zuckerbrod; Kristin De Vivo, Contributor; Kate Felsen, Contributor; Courtney Paulger, Contributor; Denis Udall, Contributor – Lucas Education Research, George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2021
This paper provides an overview of the research landscape for the kind of professional learning needed for project-based learning to succeed. The evidence is clear that such professional learning must ensure teachers are active, self-directed learners who receive support that is meaningful and relevant to their experiences and context. The authors…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Advanced Placement Programs, Inquiry
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Diana Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that provides civics, social studies, and American government students with the opportunity to actively and cooperatively engage with real-world issues and situations. Students typically identify a problem in their community or school, research the problem and policy-based solutions,…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Social Studies, Citizen Participation
James Oren – ProQuest LLC, 2022
More than 85% of federally funded research initiatives fail to produce significant positive results (Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2013). Moreover, of the less than 15% that do yield positive results, none show replicability outside of their original setting (Pogrow, 2017; Kizilcec et al., 2020). Mixed results are present in even the most…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
Katrina Laguarda; Linda Shear; Satabdi Basu; Ela Joshi; Patrik Lundh; Hui Yang – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
Launched in 2016 and led by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (The Trust), CoolThink@JC is scaling the study of computational thinking to primary 4-6 students across the territory. By early 2023, the CoolThink network had enrolled 204 schools in six cohorts, achieving a critical mass of schools that will have adopted the 14-hour curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
Christopher Edward Gilmore – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this study, I explored how (a) a team-based instructional method rather than a one-teacher-one-classroom, traditional teaching model and (b) an inquiry-based learning approach affected teachers attitudes and self-efficacy for teaching and students attitudes, self-efficacy, engagement, and connections to school. The study was conducted within…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Students, Urban Schools, Team Teaching
Joshua Rutberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
It has been well-establishing in the field of educational research that traditional educational methods such as passive lectures and labs where students follow pre-designed procedures to verify information already told to them are not effective for promoting meaningful and lasting conceptual understanding. Alongside this knowledge have come a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Laboratory Experiments
Cornehl, Krista – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Many students are passively engaged in mathematics content across the United States because they are in classrooms that use traditional instruction methods (i.e. lecture and guided practice). Calculus is a struggle for students because of the critical thinking, conceptual understanding, and problem solving required. Active learning has been shown…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Advanced Placement Programs, Calculus, Mathematics Achievement
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Twal, Nader – Learning Professional, 2018
The educational landscape around standards, assessment, professional development, and funding is changing at a rapid pace. This article asks how can education institutions--and educators--respond with a balance of urgency and coherence? How can education institutions temper the need for risk-taking and innovation with the responsibility to deliver…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, School Districts, Communities of Practice
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Chen, Ching-Huei – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2017
This study investigated in-service teachers' learning experiences in a scaffolded project-based learning environment. The participants were fifty-five teachers enrolled in a graduate-level learning-by-doing design course. The participants subsequently responded to a survey on the effects of different modes of scaffolds and were interviewed with…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Active Learning, Student Projects, Faculty Development
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Conklin, Kristen; St. Clair, Tyler – Science Teacher, 2019
Project-based learning (PBL) in the science classroom provides an opportunity for students to investigate socioscientific issues that are current, authentic, and relevant. In a typical PBL unit, the teacher designs a narrative plan and acts as a facilitator who helps gather and organize student ideas. The framework of the Next Generation Science…
Descriptors: Forestry, Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Cordoba, Tanya Espinosa; Sanders-Smith, Stephanie C. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
An increasing amount of attention and public funding has been dedicated in recent years to the field of Early Childhood Education and the expansion of early childhood programs in the United States. Program quality in early childhood is evaluated based on program-level structural features and instructional support (e.g. problem solving, feedback,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Power Structure, Teaching Methods
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Shekhar, Prateek; Maura Borrego – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Engineering education research has empirically validated the effectiveness of active learning over traditional instructional methods. However, the dissemination of education research into instructional practice has been slow. Faculty workshops for current and future instructors offer a solution to promote the widespread adoption of active learning…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Program Implementation, Teacher Workshops
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