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McCollum, Brett; Sepulveda, Ana; Moreno, Yuritzel – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2016
Learning within the sciences is often considered through a quantitative lens, but acquiring proficiency with the symbolic representations in chemistry is arguably more akin to language learning. Representational competencies are central to successful communication of chemical information including molecular composition, structure, and properties.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Learning Strategies, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Manuel, Dominic; Freiman, Viktor – Global Education Review, 2017
Meeting the needs of mathematically gifted and talented students is a challenge for educators. To support teachers of mathematically gifted and talented students to find appropriate solutions, several innovative projects were conducted in schools using funds provided by the New Brunswick, Canada, Department of Education. This article presents one…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Simulated Environment
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Tremblay, Marie-Claude; Richard, Lucie; Brousselle, Astrid; Chiocchio, François; Beaudet, Nicole – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The health promotion laboratory (HPL-Canada) is a public health professional development program building on a collaborative learning approach in order to support long-term practice change in local health services teams. This study aims to analyse the collaborative learning processes of two teams involved in the program during the first year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Health, Professional Development, Cooperative Learning
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Kanuka, Heather; Cowley, Summer – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain insights into how academics understand undergraduate graduand attributes. The findings reveal some alignment in views about student attributes, including that they are engaged citizens, are self-directed, have imagination, are questioning, are flexible, display leadership, are problem solvers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
Flynn, Kathleen – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
As a pedagogical approach, problem-based learning (PBL) has shown success for average and gifted students (HmeloSiver, 2004) and there are numerous incentives for its implementation in online learning environments (Savid-Baden, 2007; Chernobilsky, Nagarajan, & Hmelo-Silver, 2005). However, little research has been conducted regarding the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Learning Disabilities, Problem Solving