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Direct linkEvans, Tanya; Klymchuk, Sergiy; Murphy, Priscilla E. L.; Novak, Julia; Stephens, Jason; Thomas, Mike – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This study describes an intervention that introduced a period of solving non-routine problems into tertiary STEM lectures. The aim was twofold: to attempt to increase student engagement and to introduce them to the kind of domain-free abstract reasoning that involves critical, creative and innovative thinking. The study involved over 600 STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking
Lao, Huei-Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this quantitative study, a survey was developed and administered to middle and high school teachers to examine what factors motivated them to implement problem-based learning (PBL). Using Expectancy-Value Theory by Eccles et al. (1983) and Self-Determination Theory by Ryan and Deci (2000b) as the theoretical framework, this instrument measured…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Middle Schools, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers
Sockalingam, Nachamma; Rotgans, Jerome; Schmidt, Henk G. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
This study aimed to identify the attributes that students and tutors associated with effective PBL problems, and assess the extent to which these attributes related to the actual effectiveness of problems. To this end, students and tutors in focus groups were asked to discuss about possible attributes of effective problems. The same participants…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Problem Based Learning, Tutors, Teaching Methods
