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Magalhães, Marcos Nascimento; Magalhães, Maria Cecilia Camargo – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
In this paper, we report on the impact of four activities and two interviews on the organization of an introductory statistics course attended by future mathematics teachers at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The activities were designed to enhance students' learning and collaborative knowledge construction, based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Interviews, Course Organization
Abbott, William; Nantz, Kathryn A. – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2012
Having engaged in interdisciplinary team-teaching in both the two-course cluster format and the single course format, we intend to show how we helped students recognize and find their own integrative insights between the disciplines of history and economics. In the process we not only compare the advantages and disadvantages of each format but…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Integrated Activities, History Instruction, Economics Education
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Eddy, Sarah L.; Hogan, Kelly A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
At the college level, the effectiveness of active-learning interventions is typically measured at the broadest scales: the achievement or retention of all students in a course. Coarse-grained measures like these cannot inform instructors about an intervention's relative effectiveness for the different student populations in their classrooms or…
Descriptors: College Students, Active Learning, Intervention, Academic Achievement
Bartholomae, David; Petrosky, Anthony R. – 1986
The product of a course at the University of Pittsburgh, this book offers educators the opportunity to see how the acts of reading, writing, and thinking that characterize work in academia appear to those students who lack adequate preparation for such work--namely, basic writers. The introduction to the book presents an overview of the course and…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Organization, Educational Research, Educational Theories
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Milstead, John – The CEA Critic, 1965
The awesome task of teaching the English novel in one semester at a small college is illustrated and made more feasible in this concise article. A selected group of novels is commented upon specifically, comprising a total volume of more than 4,100 pages of assigned reading. Using the incentive of higher grades, the author provides two other lists…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Course Organization
Fink, Lawrence A. – 1969
A discussion of the challenge and promise of honors courses precedes an examination of an American History honors class composed of 24 high school juniors and seniors selected by one or more sets of criteria. The students came from well educated parents who raised comparatively small families, 13 were either first born or only children, and all…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American History, Bibliographies, Course Content
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Preece, Robert – ESP News, 1994
Art English is a combination of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL)/English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) and art content. As a new instructional area, it faces several challenges: as with all English for Special Purposes (ESP), exchange of information among programs; development of a suitable combination of art content and ESL, due to lack of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Art Materials, Course Content