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Beth Archer-Kuhn; Natalie Beltrano; Juyan Wang; Sahar Esmaeili – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
This paper reflects the results from a 3-year quantitative study in higher education on inquiry-based learning (IBL). Utilizing primary data collection in a quasi-experimental survey, we examined the impact of IBL on six cohorts of undergraduate students. We aimed to answer our main research question: Can IBL be an effective pedagogy that helps…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Social Work, Skill Development
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Hedieh Najafi; N. Carol Rolheiser; Kelly Gordon – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article describes an evaluation of a campus wide Active Learning initiative to examine instructors' experiences teaching in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) at a Canadian University. ALCs at this university differ in size, layout, and audio-visual equipment. The participants were 21 instructors from different disciplines who had taught…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Classroom Design
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Gülfem Gürses; Aysenur I?nceelli – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
ICAP is a framework that classifies learning processes based on students' explicit behaviors. The framework is developed for testing the hypothesis that interactive exercises are better than constructive exercises, and active exercises are better than the passive exercises for higher cognitive engagement and better learning outcomes. The ICAP…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Classification, Active Learning
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Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Andrew Leger – College Teaching, 2025
Recent years have witnessed the spread of purpose-built active learning classrooms throughout the higher education sector. While these innovative learning spaces are well-suited for a variety of active learning strategies, their lack of a single focal point means they are inconvenient spaces for lecturing. While educational developers often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, College Instruction
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Tye Campbell; Diandra Singh; Cathlene Hillier; J-F; Haleigh Sears – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2023
Over the past several decades, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners have placed an emphasis on inquiry-based science and mathematics instruction in elementary school. While inquiry-based science and mathematics instruction can support student learning and engagement, teacher preparation programmes have experienced challenges in preparing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction
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Erin Keith; Carolyn Clarke; Allison Tucker – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Learning spaces in higher education are fraught with colonial barriers such as teacher-centered, front facing, stark, feelingless, and unwelcoming classrooms that diminish students' feelings of well-being. For pre-service teachers, these are also the types of classrooms that they often inherit as they foray into the profession. Three Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Decolonization
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Laura Facciolo – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2023
What lives amongst loss? This study employs spectral reading practice to thematically analyze the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) produced within the Canadian blogosphere during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the extent of loss that the pandemic brought, the findings of this study reveal that SoTL practitioners continued to embrace…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Reading Habits, Caring
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Rapke, Tina; Hall, Jennifer; Marynowski, Richelle – PRIMUS, 2021
We describe a method that instructors can use to grade tests and assignments that can be used in follow-up inquiry-based activities in class to review material. The grading process is essentially a sorting of student assignment/test responses based on the instructor's conception of what makes responses acceptable. The instructor can assign a grade…
Descriptors: Grading, Assignments, Tests, Inquiry
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Murphy, Michael P. A.; Rose, Daniel – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
The "Curator's Curiosities" program was launched at Fort Henry National Historic Site in the summer of 2017 as an object-based interpretive program. In addition to learning the history of an artifact from the collection, participants were taught how to properly handle and catalogue the artifact, under the supervision of trained museum…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Descriptions, Historic Sites, Museums
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Daniel B. Robinson; William Walters – Studying Teacher Education, 2024
This research responds to calls for the decolonization and indigenization of education and higher education spaces and institutions within Canada, specifically within the physical education (PE) and physical education teacher education (PETE) sub-disciplines. Recognizing our own responsibility to attend to decolonization and indigenization, we…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Treaties
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Radzimski, Vanessa; Leung, Fok-Shuen; Sargent, Pam; Prat, Alain – PRIMUS, 2021
We discuss an innovative course model used in first-year calculus courses at a large North American research university, which we refer to as the "Blended Model." We argue that our model takes the best features of lectures, flipped classrooms, and traditional recitations, and gathers them into a cohesive, robust structure that benefits…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Flipped Classroom, Calculus, Research Universities
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Pecaski McLennan, Deanna – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
The author reflects on using the language of mathematics to explore the many different cultures represented in their kindergarten class population. A student demonstrating counting in Mandarin became the catalyst for a month-long inquiry into researching how numbers look and sound in dozens of different languages. Throughout this experience,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Teaching Methods, Mandarin Chinese
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Perrella, Andrew; Dam, Huyen; Martin, Lynn; MacLachlan, John; Fenton, Nancy – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Undergraduate research and inquiry is a growing movement within the teaching and learning nexus, with many institutions developing their practices within this culture of education. This study aimed to identify the perceptions and experiences surrounding undergraduate research and inquiry among students and faculty at McMaster University in…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Teaching Experience, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
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Howe, Edward; Ruberg, Andres – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2020
This action research investigates DigiPen, an innovative locally developed secondary school course where students are actively engaged in project-based learning while studying how to work effectively in teams focused on digital game design. Students apply art, math, physics, and computer science knowledge and learn important life skills. DigiPen…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Active Learning, Student Projects, Design
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García-Allén, Ana; Taylor, Shelley K. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This article focuses on the implementation of a flipped classroom approach in two different levels of Spanish foreign language university courses for beginner and intermediate learners. The flipped classroom approach delivers course content that prioritizes both digital technology and active learning. Despite its potential advantages in the…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Second Language Learning
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