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King-Dow Su – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
According to extensive research, problem-based learning (PBL) in STEM education improves student learning outcomes and supports them in gaining practical skills necessary for upward future careers. Despite current efforts to promote PBL-STEM activities in education, their uptake in life science remains low. Several types of research involving…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Learning Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education
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Caukin, Nancy; Dillard, Heather; Goodin, Terry; Hover, Ashlee; Carter, Lando – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
This SoTL study aimed to determine thirty-eight teacher candidates' self-efficacy after experiencing semester one of a yearlong residency. Researchers used a pre/post survey, the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES), and a retrospective pre TSES to determine perceived levels of self-efficacy in three areas: classroom management, instructional…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Preservice Teacher Education
Alissa Bianculli – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of teachers in kindergarten through first grade utilizing digital technologies to engage elementary students during mathematics instruction. This phenomenological study was guided by the following research questions. (1) How do elementary…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Hallinger, Philip – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2021
The current review employed bibliometric review methods to analyze 14,130 Scopus-indexed documents on problem-based learning published from 1972 through the end of 2019. The goals of the review were to describe the landscape and analyze the evolution of topical foci of interdisciplinary research on PBL over the past five decades. The review…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Self Efficacy
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Caza, Arran; Nelson, Eric – Management Teaching Review, 2019
Choosing appropriate instructional methodologies when designing a course is challenging. The variety of options available magnify this difficulty. For good reasons, educators may be reluctant to implement new instructional methodologies, even when they are interested in doing so. We propose a potential solution based on the findings of a recent…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Learning Activities, Problem Based Learning
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Lee, Yuan-Hsuan – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Implementing English medium instruction (EMI) has become a proliferating measure in higher education to embrace globalization. Nevertheless, university students reported various challenges in taking EMI courses. Objectives: This study investigated the effect of the computer-mediated terminology pretraining on university students' EMI…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Masitoh, Lisda Fitriana; Fitriyani, Harina – Malikussaleh Journal of Mathematics Learning, 2018
One of the important affective factors for students in mathematics learning is self-efficacy. The students should have high mathematics self-efficacy. So, it can support the success of learning process. The facts that indicated the low of students' mathematics self-efficacy, encouraging the efforts to improve self-efficacy through the improvement…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Self Efficacy, Problem Based Learning
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Evans, 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
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Garcia-Moran, Emmanuel; Esqueda, Donovan; Solis-Cordova, Jose De Jesus; Villagomez, Luis; Morano, Hector; Ramirez, Rafael – Design and Technology Education, 2021
Online laboratories are widely used in higher engineering education and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they have taken on an even greater relevance. At Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, well-established techniques such as Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Project-Oriented Learning (POL) and Research-Based Learning (RBL) have been implemented over the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Peranginangin, Siska Apulina; Saragih, Sahat; Siagian, Pargaulan – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of learning materials through Problem Based Learning with Karo Culture Context (PBL-KCC), as well as improving students' mathematic problem solving ability and student self-efficacy. Learning materials developed were lesson plan, student book, student worksheet, mathematic problem solving…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Problem Based Learning, Grade 7, Junior High School Students
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Rusmansyah; Yuanita, Leny; Ibrahim, Muslimin; Isnawati; Prahani, Binar Kurnia – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2019
Pre-service chemistry teachers should have the 21st century competence such as critical thinking skill. Unfortunately, the critical thinking skill dan self-efficacy level of Indonesian pre-service chemistry teachers is still low. Problem Based Learning (PBL) model and Inquiry model have been implemented widely to improve the critical thinking…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Critical Thinking, Preservice Teachers
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Brennan, Janie; Solomon, Erin D. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
A unit operations laboratory course was significantly modified to be an open-ended problem-based experience with an emphasis on teamwork and communication skills. Students were surveyed to assess gains in engineering self-efficacy as well as to indicate which course structure components were most beneficial to learning. Students showed significant…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Self Efficacy, Chemistry
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Lee, Huei-Chen; Blanchard, Margaret R. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2019
This quantitative study examined factors underlying middle and high school teachers' choices about whether to use problem-based learning (PBL). Survey items measured respondents' perceived competence, autonomy, and relatedness, and the value and costs they placed on implementing PBL. Teachers who have taught with PBL (n = 126) had significantly…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers
Weiler, Michelle Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative explanatory bounded single case study was to seek to understand how the use of curriculum that is influenced by experiential learning theory and based in scenario-based learning as an instructional methodology in a law enforcement academy influences the self-efficacy and job readiness of peace officers with less…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Vignettes, Law Enforcement, Police
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Lin, Xiao-Fan; Tang, Dandan; Lin, Xuanjun; Liang, Zhong-Mei; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This study aimed to explore the relationships between students' perceived learning practices and associated self-efficacies regarding mobile-assisted seamless science learning. The learning practices for mobile-assisted seamless science learning questionnaire was developed with three scales that denote learning supported by mobile technology.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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