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Sokratis Tselegkaridis; Theodosios Sapounidis; Christos Tokatlidis; Dimitrios Papakostas – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study focuses on microcontroller circuits and aims to: 1) investigate the impact of formal reasoning on students' post-knowledge using catastrophe theory; 2) compare the different combination sequences of tangible user interface (TUI) and graphical user interface (GUI); and 3) assess the usability of both interfaces and explore…
Descriptors: College Students, Electronics, Electronic Equipment, Engineering Education
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Whalen, Kate; Paez, Antonio – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
Sustainability challenges are complex and call for the effective development of knowledge, skills, and abilities in current and new leaders. New offerings in higher education provide sustainability training to complement studies in geography, engineering, science, and other disciplines, in many cases including innovative experiential learning…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Student Attitudes, Reflection, Metacognition
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Mary Anne Peabody; Susan Noyes; Mary Anderson – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
Reflective practice is considered a highly valued graduate attribute in the field of occupational therapy. Occupational therapy educators influence and shape how students develop into reflective practitioners. Reflective practice requires a set of complex thinking skills that are typically focused on personal experiences and can be broken down…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Graduate Students, College Faculty, Reflection
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Samba, Regina Marita Onabid; Achor, Emmanuel Edoja; Bash, Asabe Edward; Iortim, Stella O. – Science Education International, 2020
The study investigated the effects of graphic organizer (GO) and experiential learning (EL) with feedback on the mean achievement and students' critical thinking in Jos North Local Government Area of the Plateau State of Nigeria. A pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design was used. A sample of 75 students was drawn from the population of 1950…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials, Critical Thinking
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Dahl, Andrew J.; Peltier, James W.; Schibrowsky, John A. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2018
Marketing educators have long espoused the importance of critical thinking as a means of developing students' higher-order problem-solving skills. In this article, we utilize an historical approach to investigate how educators have defined, operationalized, and empirically evaluated the critical thinking construct. To accomplish this, we review…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Marketing, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills
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Smart, Karl L.; Csapo, Nancy – Business Communication Quarterly, 2007
With a shift of focus from teaching to learning in higher education, teachers often look for strategies to involve students actively in the learning process, especially since numerous studies have demonstrated that a student's active involvement in the learning process enhances learning. Active learning has resulted in positive learning outcomes.…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
Knapp, Clifford E. – 1992
This digest contrasts the traditional view of learning characteristic of classroom instruction with the emerging "constructivist" view that emphasizes the understanding of how and why students learn. The latter takes learning as a knowledge construction process that closely relates to prior knowledge and the learning context. It lends…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Dalton, Maxine A. – 1998
Learning from job experiences is essential for every manager's development. Managers learn best from challenging experiences, when employing a variety of learning experiences, and when employing strategies that coordinate what they want to learn with challenges likely to teach these lessons. Becoming a more versatile learner is essential. There…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Cognitive Style, Experiential Learning
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Boyatzis, Richard E.; Kolb, David A. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Develops a typology of learning skills congruent with the learning style descriptions of experiential learning theory. Describes the Learning Skills Profile (LSP), an assessment instrument designed to assess learning skills. Suggests the LSP for providing personal and organizational feedback on skills. Suggests that the typology allows both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Experiential Learning, Feedback
Kirk, James J.; Huff, Steve – 1996
This article provides a brief introduction to learning organization and systems thinking. It contains three experiential learning activities designed to teach systems thinking concepts. The first activity, "Pellets," helps learners discover the advantages of applying systems thinking to the solutions of workplace problems. The next two…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education, Creative Thinking
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Hunter, Tom – Young Children, 2000
Discusses the importance of movement to mental and physical development, especially in young children's learning environments. Suggests that children naturally need to move in order to learn, and adults' efforts to entice children to sit still, pay attention, and be quiet often run contrary to this need. Proposes creating safe learning…
Descriptors: Attention, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
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Quinsland, Larry K.; Van Ginkel, Anne – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
This paper defines the concept of structured processing as an activity that encourages students to reflect, describe, analyze, and communicate that which was recently experienced. The paper explores structured processing, outlines a cognitive processing hierarchy, and suggests methods for designing and leading processing activities for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
Tull, Delena – 1990
An ethnographic study was conducted with the goal of evaluating the botanical concepts of sixth-grade students. One aspect of the study involved examination of the levels of abstraction students use for naming plants. Nine sixth-grade students were interviewed individually. Each was asked to identify the plants seen in a set of 64 slides and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Cummings, Alysa – Learning, 1991
Describes discovery learning, a teaching method that encourages students to use inductive reasoning. Students explore and experiment using the skill or idea being taught; they determine rules, make generalizations, and discover concepts. The teacher acts as coach, advisor, and reinforcer. A student page offers a discovery learning game on capital…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Discovery Learning, Educational Games, Elementary Education
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Spector, Barbara S.; Gibson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
Describes a qualitative study that explores students' perceptions of their own learning. Document review, participant observation, and open-ended interviews were used to gather and triangulate data. Factors that were perceived as helpful were woven into a theoretical model. The uses of the model are discussed. (Author/KR)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
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