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Madeline Springle; McKenna Sperry; Samantha Jones; Leah Pezer; Thomas O'Neill; David W. Eaton – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2024
REDEVELOP is a graduate student training program funded by the NSERC-CREATE grant, starting in 2017. Its goal is to support the training of new professionals and researchers (> 100) who will be the next generation of science and engineering leaders and policymakers in Canada. The program has successfully developed a framework for operating…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, STEM Education
Xuefan Li; Tingsong Li; Minjuan Wang; Sining Tao; Xiaoxu Zhou; Xiaoqing Wei; Naiqing Guan – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2025
With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), its application in educational settings has increasingly become a focal point, particularly in enhancing students' analytical capabilities. This study examines the effectiveness of the ChatGPT prompt framework in improving text analysis skills among students, specifically…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Asfeldt, Morten; Takano, Takako – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2020
Outdoor adventure education (OAE) and study abroad share many epistemological and pedagogical foundations and have been on parallel tracks for many years yet rarely intersect. This paper has two goals: (a) to invite study abroad researchers and practitioners to consider findings and practices from OAE to further enhance study abroad, and (b) to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Study Abroad
McIntyre-Garbutt, Nicole – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
Curricula reform that sets students' future success, as the main objective requires insights into the demands of our society. These demands include economic and social needs. The fast-paced changing nature of our society makes it difficult to clearly define content necessary for students' post-graduate success, so curricula reform should focus on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Change Strategies, Skill Development
Manyukhina, Yana; Wyse, Dominic – Curriculum Journal, 2019
Agency, understood as the capacity to act independently and to make one's own choices, is considered central to children's development. Thus, education, and hence education curricula, have a role in the development of learner agency. While curriculum development is a key focus for educational theory, research, policy, and classroom practice, the…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Critical Theory, Realism, Personal Autonomy
Finley, Ashley – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
For over a decade, the national Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project has promoted the idea that well-being is an essential outcome of college students' learning and civic engagement. The project emphasizes the full promise of a liberal education: to be liberally educated is to possess the complex skills and abilities necessary for…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, Liberal Arts, Skill Development
Hébert, Ali; Hauf, Petra – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Although anecdotal evidence and research alike espouse the benefits of service learning, some researchers have suggested that more rigorous testing is required in order to determine its true effect on students. This is particularly true in the case of academic development, which has been inconsistently linked to service learning. It has been…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Development, Citizenship Responsibility, Interpersonal Competence
Howard, Ryan A.; O'Connell, Timothy S.; Lathrop, Anna H. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2016
This article examines the impact of an outdoor orientation program (OOP) on a cohort of first-year university students who participated in a canoe trip facilitated by peer leaders. The curriculum included training for outdoor skills and transitional guidance to university life (i.e., strategies for time management, critical thinking, becoming…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Program Effectiveness, College Freshmen, Adventure Education
Peskin, Joan – Education Canada, 2011
In the past two decades, a large body of research has examined the differences between novices and experts in subject areas ranging from physics to poetry. Yet research on developing expertise has found no "magic bullet" in becoming an expert and has concluded that innate talent plays a less prominent role than previously imagined.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Academic Ability
Deslandes, Rollande; Rivard, Marie-Claude; Joyal, France; Trudeau, Francois – Online Submission, 2010
This qualitative study used focus groups to identify the knowledge about the "Arts du Cirque" Program implemented in a primary school and to explore perceptions of its impacts. Data are based on the discourse of school staff members, parents and other members of the community of an elementary school. The impacts on students are…
Descriptors: School Activities, Focus Groups, School Community Relationship, Program Effectiveness
Lane, Carola; And Others – 1987
The teacher's guide presents a set of eight lessons designed to help students develop the skills necessary for making responsible and effective decisions. The lessons focus on: (1) the need to make many decisions daily; (2) alternatives to decisions; (3) decisions based on values; (4) the future consequences of decisions; (5) decisions that are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Skill Development
Loney, D. E. – Elements of Technology, 1977
Professor Loney writes further about his "Project Design" concept (initially described in the September 1976 issue and noted in EJ 149 766) involving group participation in selection, design, construction, testing, and evaluation of projects. Although implementation has been in secondary technical subjects, the concept may be applicable…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Group Activities, Learning Experience, Participation

Compton, Vanessa – Journal of Experiential Education, 1997
Sixteen high school students in a week-long metal casting workshop wrote stream-of-consciousness journals for 15 minutes at the beginning of each session. Sentence analysis suggested that the act of journal writing consolidated task mastery through cognitive awareness of hands-on learning and contributed to the development of self-awareness and a…
Descriptors: Creative Art, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Evers, Fredrick T.; Gilbert, Sid N. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1991
Data from two independent Canadian research studies found that university education produced added value on such dimensions of student development as reasoning, time management, and quantitative skills but not on social skills, supervisory skills, conflict management, and creativity. Universities are urged to develop more than mere competence in…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Competence, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Goos, Walter M. – School Guidance Worker, 1982
Describes the academic-occupational program where the emphasis on working with disabled students is not placed upon remedial techniques but upon the development of alternate coping strategies. Discusses the use of the homeroom concept in the implementation of this program. Describes four career orientation courses which make up the program. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Career Choice, Career Planning, Coping
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