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José A. Ballesteros; Marcos D. Fernandez; José L. González-Geraldo – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: A peer-mentoring plan designed to support engineering students during their transition from high school to university. This article addresses the adaptation challenges faced by first-year students in engineering programs. Background: The transition to university is a critical period for students, marked by significant lifestyle…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Mentors, Engineering Education, College Freshmen
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Ann-Kristin Glegola; Armin Jentsch; Natalie Ross; Johannes König; Gabriele Kaiser – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
The potential of tasks to foster mathematical learning and understanding is an important aspect of instruction and their implementation in teaching is thus often viewed to be positively related to the quality of instruction. Both the selection of tasks as well as their implementation in the classroom depend on many factors, with teachers'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Milorad Cerovac; Therese Keane – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2025
Piaget's theory of stage structure is synonymous with discussions involving cognitive development. As with any theoretical model, researchers inevitably and rightly seek to affirm and/or contest the elements of the model presented. In this comparative study, students' performance across three hands-on engineering tasks for two distinct student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Piagetian Theory, Developmental Tasks