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Analysing Task Design and Students' Responses to Context-Based Problems through Different Analytical Frameworks
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Broman, Karolina; Bernholt, Sascha; Parchmann, Ilka – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2015
Background: Context-based learning approaches are used to enhance students' interest in, and knowledge about, science. According to different empirical studies, students' interest is improved by applying these more non-conventional approaches, while effects on learning outcomes are less coherent. Hence, further insights are needed into the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Context Effect, Problem Solving
Relationships between Students' Strategies for Influencing Their Study Environment and Their Strategic Approach to Studying
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Jungert, Tomas; Rosander, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between student influence, students' strategic approaches to studying and academic achievement, and to examine differences between students in a Master's programme in Engineering with conventional teaching and one based on problem-based learning in a sample of 268 students. A version of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Problem Based Learning, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
Portraits of PBL: Course Objectives and Students' Study Strategies in Computer Engineering, Psychology and Physiotherapy.
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Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt – Instructional Science, 2000
Compares the role of course objectives in relation to students' study strategies in problem-based learning (PBL). Results comprise data from three PBL programs at Linkopings University (Sweden), in physiotherapy, psychology, and computer engineering. Faculty provided course objectives to function as supportive structures and guides for students'…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer System Design, Course Objectives, Foreign Countries