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Natnael Terefe Arega; Tigist Shiferaw Hunde – Review of Education, 2025
Constructivist instructional approaches have gained significant popularity in education as educators seek to create more engaging and effective learning environments. However, the effectiveness of these approaches in promoting student learning remains a subject of debate. This systematic review aims to synthesise existing evaluation-based research…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Instructional Development
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Abderrahim, Lizzie; Gutiérrez-Colón Plana, Mar – The EUROCALL Review, 2021
Using the concept of a journey through time, this article examines the theoretical foundation underpinning the use of digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool in the language classroom. It describes the arguments developed by Dewey, Piaget and Vygotsky, which form the basis of social constructivist theory and the work of Kolb from which…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Computer Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction, Learning Theories
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Ninnuan, Kanjana; Wongsaphan, Montree – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This study investigates the implementation of the learning management model based on cognitive development theory to enhance mathematical problem-solving ability for Prathomsuksa 6 students. The sample group assigned by cluster random sampling was thirty Prathomsuksa 6 students of Chumchon Yot Kaeng Songkhro School. The research instruments…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Problem Solving, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Instruction
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Cocieru, Ovidiu C.; Katz, Matthew; McDonald, Mark A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2020
The constructivist theory of learning states that student interaction with peers leads to cognitive development. Meanwhile, scholars claimed that traditional management classes that use group work do not promote student interaction effectively. Despite this concern, student interaction has not been compared between different courses. In the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Classroom Environment, Management Development
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Chi Hong Nguyen; Danh Thanh Ly – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Target 4.7 in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) aims to ensure that education is equally accessible to all genders who are taught to appreciate human rights and cultural diversity as global citizens. Understanding and sympathy for intercultural differences become important in higher education. With a focus on the foundations and dimensions of…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Exchange Programs, Sustainable Development, Cultural Awareness
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Glaab, Sabine; Heyne, Thomas – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
A total of 268 primary school children (age 8.75 ± 0.65) spent one day at a wildlife park attending environmental education aiming at high cognitive achievement and motivation alongside maintained discipline. To accomplish this at an out-of-school learning setting, we compared our preferred 'guided learning at workstations' (G) combining the…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students
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Isik, Ayse Derya – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
Over the course of history, the structures of societies have changed at certain periods depending on technological and scientific developments. In today's societies, such mental processes as information processing and production have become prominent and the educational systems are revised according to the constructivist approach, which focuses on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Prior Learning
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Nurzaman – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Model of moral cultivation in MTsN Bangunharja done using three methods, classical cultivation methods, extra-curricular activities in the form of religious activities, scouting, sports, and Islamic art, and habituation of morals. Problem base learning models in MTsN Bangunharja applied using the following steps: find the problem, define the…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Models, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Davis, Patricia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Over the past decades, the trends in demographics for community colleges have changed dramatically causing more diversity (language, age, race) in student enrollment (Turcotte, 2015, p.3). As a result of the enrollment population shifting, community colleges evolved more comprehensively by expanding access, which allowed service to more students.…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Remedial Instruction
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Crossland, John – Primary Science, 2015
Piaget's theories of the structure of knowledge, constructivist learning, and stages of development in thinking have been a cornerstone of cognitive psychology and teacher education for half a century (Piaget, 1983). More recently, his ideas about stages of cognitive development have received criticism from many quarters (Weiten, 1992), including…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Brain, Child Development
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Lodewyk, Ken R.; Bracco, Elizabeth – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2018
Two weeks into a new academic school year, a physical education (PE) class of 25 grade nine girls completed a survey relative to their previous PE experiences. Following the completion of a six-lesson territorial games unit using the six-step teaching game for understanding (TGfU) model taught by a guest certified female teacher with TGfU…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Educational Games, Physical Education
Suneetha, Y. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to study, the extent of constructivist classroom characteristics that exist in ELT (English Language Teaching) Methodology. It is an attempt to explore the constructivist learning activities and evaluation strategies, whether they are useful to the students and the instructors. This paper elevates the contrast of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Marshall, Aaron; Thorburn, Malcolm – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
This article argues, from a critical realist perspective, that it would be beneficial to extend thinking on how personal and social education could become more central to students' learning. We explore how constructive-informed arrangements which emphasize cognitive skills and affective qualities could be realized through experiential…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Decision Making, Outdoor Education, Constructivism (Learning)
Keener, Cheryl P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research explored online graduate students' preferences using the Constructivist Internet-Based Learning Environment Survey (CILES) and how everyday learner attributes affected their preferences. The purpose of this study was to identify graduate students' preferences for various types of learning in order to aid designers with aligning…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Educational Technology, Preferences, Student Attitudes
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Wheeler, Lindsay B.; Maeng, Jennifer L.; Whitworth, Brooke A. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative investigation was to better understand teaching assistants' (TAs') perceptions of training in a guided inquiry undergraduate general chemistry laboratory context. The training was developed using existing TA training literature and informed by situated learning theory. TAs engaged in training prior to teaching (~25…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teaching Assistants, Inquiry, Undergraduate Study
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