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A Plan of Action: Interactive School Improvement Constructs
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Zornes, Alicia; Moore, Thomas; O'Connor, Benjamin; Wittmer, John – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The following document represents a Problem Based Learning Project (PBL) around the central theme of school improvement, the components of school improvement, and the importance of the presence and interaction of five central components of school improvement. Five central components, or constructs, identified and selected from a breadth of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Problem Based Learning, Leadership, Data
A Plan of Action: Interactive School Improvement Constructs
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O'Connor, Benjamin; Moore, Thomas; Wittmer, John; Zornes, Alicia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The following document represents a Problem Based Learning Project (PBL) around the central theme of school improvement, the components of school improvement, and the importance of the presence and interaction of five central components of school improvement. Five central components, or constructs, identified and selected from a breadth of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Problem Based Learning, Educational Planning, Leadership
Training Australian General Practitioners in Rural Public Health: Impact, Desirability and Adaptability of Hybrid Problem-Based Learning
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Gladman, Justin; Perkins, David – Health Education Journal, 2013
Context and Objective: Australian rural general practitioners (GPs) require public health knowledge. This study explored the suitability of teaching complex public health issues related to Aboriginal health by way of a hybrid problem-based learning (PBL) model within an intensive training retreat for GP registrars, when numerous trainees have no…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Foreign Countries, Physicians, Rural Areas
A Critical Approach to Social Emotional Learning Instruction through Community-Based Service Learning
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McKay-Jackson, Cassandra – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
The traditional teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetic alone will not fully prepare students to lead with integrity, govern fairly, analyze problems, and work collectively with people different from themselves. Social emotional learning (SEL) has been described as one of the missing links in academic education, but a restrictive approach to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Service Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development
The Grand Challenge: Helping Teachers Learn/Teach Cutting-Edge Science via a PBL Approach
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Ertmer, Peggy A.; Schlosser, Sarah; Clase, Kari; Adedokun, Omolola – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2014
A mixed-methods research study was designed to examine teachers' knowledge and confidence for implementing a STEM-based problem-based learning (PBL) unit in their 6-12 grade science and math classrooms. Twenty-one teachers (7 in-service and 13 pre-service) participated in an intensive two-week summer workshop during which they engaged in, and then…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, STEM Education
PLTW and Epics-High: Curriculum Comparisons to Support Problem Solving in the Context of Engineering Design. Research in Engineering and Technology Education
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Kelley, Todd; Brenner, Daniel C.; Pieper, Jon T. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2010
A comparative study was conducted to compare two approaches to engineering design curriculum between different schools (inter-school) and between two curricular approaches, "Project Lead the Way" (PLTW) and "Engineering Projects in Community Service" (EPIC High) (inter-curricular). The researchers collected curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Protocol Analysis, Surveys, Engineering