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Natasha Guérard-Poirier; Léamarie Meloche-Dumas; Michèle Beniey; Andrei Torres; Bill Kapralos; Malek Dhane; Frédéric Mercier; Rami Younan; Adam Dubrowski; Erica Patocskai – Discover Education, 2023
Background: Progress in remote educational strategies was fueled by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. This pilot RCT explored the efficacy of a decentralized model of simulation based on principles of observational and peer-to-peer learning for the acquisition of surgical skills. Methods: Sixty medical students from the University of Montreal…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Lyn Denend; Susie Spielman; Ross Venook; Ravinder D. Pamnani; David Camarillo; James Wall; Joseph Towles – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2023
Many undergraduate educational experiences in biomedical design lack clinical immersion-based needs finding training for students. Convinced of the merits of this type of training for undergraduates, but unable to offer a quarter-long course due to faculty and administrative constraints, we developed an accelerated block-plan course, during which…
Descriptors: Innovation, Educational Experience, Undergraduate Students, Skill Development
Terri L. Gray Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Limited research exists on the factors that contribute to community college students' development of self-efficacy (SE) while serving as preservice teachers (PSTs) during their early childhood education (ECE) practicum. This lack of research is concerning because educators who have high SE enhance the educational well-being of all children. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Practicums, Self Efficacy
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Mary Anne Peabody; Susan Noyes; Mary Anderson – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
Reflective practice is considered a highly valued graduate attribute in the field of occupational therapy. Occupational therapy educators influence and shape how students develop into reflective practitioners. Reflective practice requires a set of complex thinking skills that are typically focused on personal experiences and can be broken down…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Graduate Students, College Faculty, Reflection
Heine, Rumi Christine Yogi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Teacher candidates in a special education teacher training program and candidates in a master's in applied behavior analysis (ABA) program both require learning and applying evidence-based practices with fidelity to effectively instruct students with severe disabilities. This study evaluated the effects of behavior skills training (BST) via…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Masters Programs
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Callinan, Carol J.; van der Zee, Emile; Wilson, Garry – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
Social cognitive learning theory has shown that observational learning positively influences essay writing development in high-school students, and that self-efficacy impacts on motivation. This study investigated the relative contribution of model observation, model evaluation, post-submission feedback, and factors relating to self-efficacy, as…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Skills, Skill Development, Self Efficacy
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Katz, Ellen; Serbinski, Sarah; Mishna, Faye – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2017
Social work educators often teach students clinical knowledge within a university classroom, whereas students tend to learn clinical practice through their practicum experiences. This article describes data from a cross-sectional, mixed-method study on one way to effectively bridge the gap between teaching clinical knowledge and practice to…
Descriptors: Social Work, Mixed Methods Research, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods
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Jarvis, Claire; Tate, Nicholas; Dickie, Jennifer; Brown, Gavin – Journal of Geography, 2016
This article reports on reusable mobile digital learning resources designed to assist human geography undergraduate students in exploring the geographies of life in Dublin. Developing active learning that goes beyond data collection to encourage observation and thinking in the field is important. Achieving this in the context of large class sizes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Electronic Learning, Human Geography
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De Grez, Luc; Valcke, Martin; Roozen, Irene – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
The present study focuses on the design and evaluation of an innovative instructional approach to developing oral presentation skills. The intervention builds on the observational learning theoretical perspective. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional training and practice approach. Two sequencing approaches--learners starting with…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Experiential Learning, Skill Development, Public Speaking
Wenzel, Dorothy Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study examined the supervision experiences of 17 student affairs department directors at six Catholic colleges and universities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The study focused on the supervision and management skills needed by mid-level managers, and probed if and how they acquired those skills.…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Catholics, Student Personnel Workers, Administrators
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Fitzsimons, Sabrina – Ethnography and Education, 2013
This article provides an account of my experience of immersion as a third-level teacher into the three-dimensional multi-user virtual world Second Life for research purposes. An ethnographic methodology was employed. Three stages in this journey are identified: separation, transition and transformation. In presenting this journey of immersion, it…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Computer Simulation, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Research
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Osman, Magda – Journal of Problem Solving, 2008
Given the privileged status claimed for active learning in a variety of domains (visuomotor learning, causal induction, problem solving, education, skill learning), the present study examines whether action-based learning is a necessary, or a sufficient, means of acquiring the relevant skills needed to perform a task typically described as…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Active Learning, Skill Development, Observational Learning
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Baker, Elizabeth A.; Wedman, Judy M. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2007
Systematic observation is a foundational skill teachers use in order to document children's reading development and plan developmentally appropriate instruction. However, a variety of challenges make it difficult for teacher educators to help preservice teachers develop systematic observation skills. The purpose of this study is to tell two…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Observation, Observational Learning, Skill Development