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Susan C. Mirabal; Darcy A. Reed; Yvonne Steinert; Cynthia R. Whitehead; Scott M. Wright; Sean Tackett – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
While explicit conceptual models help to inform research, they are left out of much of the health professions education (HPE) literature. One reason may be the limited understanding about how to develop conceptual models with intention and rigor. Group concept mapping (GCM) is a mixed methods conceptualization approach that has been used to…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Concept Mapping, Learning Strategies
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Gasco, Javier; Villarroel, Jose Domingo; Zuazagoitia, Dani – International Education Studies, 2014
The teaching and learning of mathematics cannot be understood without considering the resolution of word problems. These kinds of problems not only connect mathematical concepts with language (and therefore with reality) but also promote the learning related to other scientific areas. In primary school, problems are solved by using basic…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematical Formulas
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Parpala, Anna; Lindblom-Ylanne, Sari; Rytkonen, Henna – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
This paper explores students' conceptions of good teaching in three different disciplines. Moreover, the aim is to explore the relation between these conceptions and students' approaches to learning by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. A total of 695 students from the Faculties of Behavioural Sciences, Law and Veterinary Medicine…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Veterinary Medicine, Content Analysis
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Fostaty Young, Sue – International Journal for Academic Development, 2008
A key component of academic development is the improvement of teaching with the express purpose of improving student learning. To achieve that end, we work toward helping faculty members develop increasingly sophisticated and complex conceptions of teaching so that they might more readily think about teaching in new ways. Models of learning and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Epistemology, Cluster Grouping
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Kostolányová, Katerina – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The proposal of the adaptive form of teaching stems from the analysis of tested student characteristics. The testing involved modified questionnaires localized to Czech conditions of teaching (LSI, ISL, ...) in context with e-learning teaching. Based on tipped, most frequently occurred groups of student characteristics, the optimum procedures for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Characteristics, Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Waring, Robert – System, 1997
Examines the effects of learning words grouped in semantic sets, using Japanese words paired with artificial words. A principal finding was that there was a main effect against learning semantically related words at the same time. The article concludes that presenting students with wordlists of new words in semantic clusters, rather than in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cluster Grouping, College Students, Foreign Countries