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Gahutu, Jean Bosco – Advances in Physiology Education, 2010
In the present article, I report on my experience in teaching and learning physiology in the first year of a new modular curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Rwanda. With self-reported questionnaires, I collected learning experience perceptions from 112 students who attended the module of physiology in 2008. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Textbooks, Computer Uses in Education, Active Learning
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Mintz, Rachel – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Investigated the effects of studying an ecological system via computer simulation on 14- and 15-year-old students' (n=9) abilities to pose hypotheses; control and manipulate variables; and learn via icon, graph, and table display formats. Working with a simulation encouraged students to think hypothetically and test their hypotheses by controlling…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
National Association for Research in Science Teaching. – 1987
Suggestions for instructional improvement are offered for science teachers in this compilation of research summaries on specific areas of science education. This series examines the topic areas of: (1) higher-order cognitive skills (focusing on developing operational definitions and classification schemes for cognitive skills); (2) microcomputers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Science
Rowland, Paul; Stuessy, Carol L. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of two modes of computer-assisted instruction, simulation and tutorial, upon the ability of preservice elementary teachers to understand relationships between a number of concepts dealing with home energy. A number of instruments measuring various dimensions of learning style differences were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Lazinica, Aleksandar, Ed.; Calafate, Carlos, Ed. – InTech, 2009
The widespread deployment and use of Information Technologies (IT) has paved the way for change in many fields of our societies. The Internet, mobile computing, social networks and many other advances in human communications have become essential to promote and boost education, technology and industry. On the education side, the new challenges…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Experiential Learning
Famellette, Judy – 1996
This facilitator's guide, and the videotape it accompanies, is designed to demonstrate ways in which the new visions of science education for the 21st century might be translated into classroom practice. The National Research Council's (NRC) National Science Education Standards, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Benchmarks…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Biological Sciences, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style