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Direct linkHeddy, Benjamin C.; Danielson, Robert W.; Ross, Kelly; Goldman, Jacqueline A. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Background: Promoting engagement and motivation in early engineering experiences is important for fostering interest and retention in engineering. One method that has been effective for doing so is facilitating transformative experiences (TEs), which occurs when students apply academic content to everyday experience. Our goal was to explore the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Transformative Learning, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students
Heddy, Benjamin C.; Nelson, Katherine G.; Husman, Jenefer; Cheng, Katherine C.; Goldman, Jacqueline A.; Chancey, John B. – Educational Psychology, 2021
Our aim was to explore the usefulness of Use, Change, Value (UCV) discussions to facilitate Transformative Experiences (TE) in online engineering courses. We investigated the predictive relationship between perceived instrumentality (PI) and interest on TE. We also investigated gender differences in the predictive relationships between the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Online Courses, Transformative Learning, Gender Differences
Download full textTarabochia, Sandra L.; Heddy, Benjamin C. – Composition Forum, 2019
In this article, we investigate a new construct for conceptualizing learning transfer with writing knowledge: Transformative Experience (TE). With origins in educational psychology, TE has been effective for promoting transfer with scientific concepts in previous research, but not yet considered in relation to writing or other presumably…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Writing Research, Transfer of Training, Writing Skills
Heddy, Benjamin C.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Science Education, 2017
This study reports the implementation of a parental involvement intervention coupled with small group discussions aimed at facilitating transformative experiences (TEs) in science courses (biology and chemistry) in an all-girls middle and high school. Specifically, the goal was to generate parental involvement, TE, and interest. Analyses showed…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Transformative Learning, Intervention, STEM Education
Pugh, Kevin J.; Bergstrom, Cassendra M.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Krob, Karen E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
The Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) model was designed to facilitate the application of academic learning in students' everyday experiences. In the current study, we describe a 2-year design-based intervention that aimed to further develop and evaluate the TTES model. In the first year, a teacher implemented the TTES…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, Instructional Design, Models
Heddy, Benjamin C.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Seli, Helena; Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Mukhopadhyay, Ananya – Educational Psychology, 2017
The Teaching for Transformative Experience in Science (TTES) model has shown to be a useful tool to generate learning and engagement in science. We investigated the effectiveness of TTES for facilitating transformative experience (TE), learning, the development of topic interest and transfer of course concepts to other courses employing a…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Models
Heddy, Benjamin C.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Science Education, 2013
Teaching and learning about complex scientific content, such as biological evolution, is challenging in part because students have a difficult time seeing the relevance of evolution in their everyday lives. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of the Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) model (Pugh, 2002)…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, Evolution
Alongi, Marc D.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Controversial issues have been established within the larger framework of civic education as an effective pedagogical approach to developing critical thinking in the classroom, preparing students with intellectual habits necessary for participation in scholarship, civic life and democracy. In this study, we found that a pedagogical intervention,…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
