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Gomez-Lanier, Lilia – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
This mixed research methods study explores whether project-based service-learning projects promote greater learning than standard project-based projects and whether introduced earlier into the curriculum promotes a greater student understanding of the world issues affecting their community. The present study focused on comparing sophomore and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Service Learning, Interior Design, Student Projects
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Mincer, Andi Beth; Thompson, Anne W. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
Little investigation has been conducted on the use of Personal Response Systems (PRS) in either graduatelevel courses or health professions education. Through anonymous participation in focus groups, graduate physical therapy students described specific aspects of PRS that they felt facilitated their learning, as well as aspects that hindered…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Opinions
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Kelly, Jennifer Rebecca; Abel, Troy D. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
The intent of this study was to explore how experiential education fosters ecological or environmental citizenship. In this context, we investigated the impact of international environmental service-learning in a college course. Specifically our research question was does environmental service-learning have an effect on ecological citizenship?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecology, Service Learning, Environmental Education
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Rybczynski, Stephen M.; Schussler, Elisabeth E. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
This study assessed student attitude towards reformed laboratories featuring a factorial design of inquiry (IN) and explicit/reflective (ER) pedagogy to foster nature of science understanding. Students in thirty-one lab sections responded to pre and post semester assessments of their confidence, perception of usefulness, and effectance motivation…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, Biology
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Nesbit, Susan E.; Sianchuk, Robert; Aleksejuniene, Jolanta; Kindiak, Rebecca – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
This study suggests that community service learning experiences facilitate the reconstruction of civil engineering student beliefs about both the type of work performed by civil engineers and the broad impact of civil engineering knowledge. Further, the service learning experiences highlight for students 1) the importance of relationships between…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Role, Service Learning, Criticism
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Li, Lan – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
Although the potential of peer assessment activities in promoting student learning and fostering student cognitive development has been widely studied and well documented across the world, it is unclear how peer assessment may benefit students of diverse achievement levels. This study examined this issue via a mixed methodology approach that…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Cooperative Learning