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Barak, Moshe; Assal, Muhammad – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
This study presents the case of development and evaluation of a STEM-oriented 30-h robotics course for junior high school students (n = 32). Class activities were designed according to the P3 Task Taxonomy, which included: (1) practice-basic closed-ended tasks and exercises; (2) problem solving--small-scale open-ended assignments in which the…
Descriptors: Robotics, STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Assignments
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Petrova, Saska; Torres Garcia, Miguel; Bouzarovski, Stefan – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper responds to the need for a greater integration of energy and environment themes in the higher education curriculum. We explore the practical implications of empowering students towards the implementation of individual action research projects focused on investigating and addressing insufficient or wasteful energy consumption among…
Descriptors: Action Research, Environmental Education, Energy, Energy Conservation
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Raymond, Chad – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
This article discusses the use of community partnerships to produce civic engagement. In two undergraduate courses during the Fall 2016 semester, students created products that met the stated needs of local nonprofit organizations. Students indicated a positive reaction to their experiences in qualitative assessment instruments, and the community…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Partnerships in Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects
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Dambudzo, Ignatius Isaac – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The study sought to investigate curriculum issues, teaching and learning for sustainable development in secondary schools in Zimbabwe. Education for sustainable development (ESD) aims at changing the approach to education by integrating principles, values, practices and needs in all forms of learning. Literature has documented the importance of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation
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Dinning, Track; Ünlü, Hüseyin – Cogent Education, 2017
With graduate employability being high on many universities' agendas, it becomes vital that a curriculum delivers not only subject knowledge but also the opportunity for students to develop and enhance industry-specific skills. This paper is concerned with how a work-based project can support skill development and considers the views of students…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Curriculum Enrichment, Skill Development, Undergraduate Students
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Niemi, Reetta; Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Lipponen, Lasse – Educational Action Research, 2015
This article is based on a pedagogical action research initiative comprising two research cycles. The study explores what constitutes meaningful experiences in the classroom from the pupils' perspectives and how understanding pupils' perspectives can foster the development of teachers' practical theory and classroom actions. Photography and group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Documentation, Action Research, Student Attitudes
Yasuda, Vanessa Applbaum – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This descriptive and interpretive case study investigates how 12 undergraduate college students perceived participation in their high school Senior Capstone Project (SCP) impacted their college academic experience. Learning transfer was explored from the learner's perspective. Data was collected using qualitative methods in three sequential phases…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Secondary School Students, Transfer of Training, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Donovan, Loretta; Green, Tim D.; Mason, Candice – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2014
Despite it being the second decade of the 21st century, there still exists a range of definitions of what a 21st century learning environment is. This can be troublesome for teacher educators as we strive to prepare teachers for environments we can't clearly describe. In order to describe a 21st century learning environment, we developed an IC Map…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Teaching Skills
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Chen, Mei-Yung; Wong, Ashley; Hsu, Tsui-Fang; Peng, Chih-Chi – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2012
In a contest featuring hands-on projects, college students were required to design a simple crawling worm using planning, self-monitoring and self-evaluation processes to solve contradictive problems. To enhance the efficiency of problem solving, one needs to practice meta-cognition based on an application of related scientific concepts. The…
Descriptors: Physics, Competition, Scientific Concepts, Hands on Science
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Deed, Craig; Cox, Peter; Dorman, Jeffrey; Edwards, Debra; Farrelly, Cathleen; Keeffe, Mary; Lovejoy, Valerie; Mow, Lucy; Sellings, Peter; Prain, Vaughan; Waldrip, Bruce; Yager, Zali – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2014
In this paper we examine how agency is characterised by teachers and students when personalised learning is enacted in the contemporary open classroom. A case study is outlined that identifies teacher reasoning for practice, the use of physical and virtual learning spaces, and student reaction to teacher facilitation of personalised learning.…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Professional Autonomy, Individualized Instruction, Case Studies
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Hakkarainen, Päivi – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2011
This paper reports on a design-based research for designing, implementing, and refining a problem-based learning (PBL) course on educational digital video at the University of Lapland's Faculty of Education. The course builds on a combination of problem solving in small group tutorial sessions and realizing a practical hands-on project during…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Video Technology
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Chang, Shu-Hsuan; Wu, Tsung-Chih; Kuo, Yen-Kuang; You, Li-Chih – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
This study proposed a novel instructional approach, a two-stage LED simulation of Project-based learning (PBL) course with online peer assessment (OPA), and explored how to apply OPA to the different structured problems in a PBL course to enhance students' professional skills in LED design as well as meta-cognitive thinking. The participants of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Projects, Active Learning
Klechaya, Rojjana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research was designed to study the effect of a professional development program in place-based science education on teacher and student learning in rural elementary schools in Thailand's northern Lampang province. Based on the results of a pilot study conducted in 2008 at one school, which was then followed by a needs assessment conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Place Based Education, Science Education, Elementary Schools
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Mitchell, Sascha; Foulger, Teresa S.; Wetzel, Keith; Rathkey, Chris – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
The purpose this study was to explore how a veteran first-grade teacher collaboratively negotiated the implementation of a project with her students while, at the same time, addressed grade-level standards. Researchers investigated the teacher's strategies for integrating the district's standards into project topics, investigative activities, and…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Akinoglu, Orhan – Online Submission, 2008
Aim of the study is to assess how students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades of primary education see the project works made in science education and their implementation processes. The study was fulfilled upon the descriptive survey model to collect data. Participants of the research were 100 students who had project implementation experiences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
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