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Williams, Stella – Psychology Teaching Review, 2011
The aim of this action research was to explore the benefits of group work as a tool for engaging students with introductory material. It was the researcher's expectation that group work, would provide a means of reducing cognitive load (Kirschner, Sweller & Clark, 2006) and encouraging on task behaviour (Wentzel & Watkins, 2002). This would result…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Cognitive Processes
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Ribeiro, Luis Roberto C. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2011
This article focuses on a teacher's evaluation of an experiment with problem-based learning (PBL) and its effects on his professional development. This case study, of a descriptive-analytical nature, involved the collaboration between the researcher and teacher in the planning, implementation of PBL and, to some extent, analysis of results.…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Participant Observation, Problem Based Learning, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Lee, Young-Mee; Mann, Karen V.; Frank, Blye W. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
Evidence supporting Problem-based learning (PBL) fostering students' self-directed learning (SDL) in hybrid PBL curricula is inconsistent. To explore the influence of PBL in a hybrid curriculum on students' SDL, the authors investigated the following: (1) students' self-assessed SDL ability, (2) students' perceptions of the influence of curricular…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Problem Based Learning, Interviews
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Donnelly, Roisin – Computers & Education, 2010
This paper explores the concept and practice of interaction within a blended problem-based learning (PBL) module for academic professional development in higher education. A qualitative study spanning two years of the lived experiences of 17 academic staff in a blended PBL module was considered likely to provide a much-needed analysis of current…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Interaction Process Analysis, Focus Groups
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Greenes, Carole; Wolfe, Susan; Weight, Stephanie; Cavanagh, Mary; Zehring, Julie – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
With funding from NSF, the Prime the Pipeline Project (P[cube]) is responding to the need to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pipeline from high school to college by developing and evaluating the scientific village strategy and the culture it creates. The scientific village, a community of high school…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, High School Students, Advanced Courses
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Fyrenius, Anna; Wirell, Staffan; Silen, Charlotte – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article presents a phenomenographic study that investigates students' approaches to achieving understanding. The results are based on interviews, addressing physiological phenomena, with 16 medical students in a problem-based curriculum. Four approaches--sifting, building, holding and moving--are outlined. The holding and moving approaches…
Descriptors: Intention, Medical Students, Interviews, Medical Education
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Ewang, Fritz – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2008
This article presents a reflection and comparison of two of my teaching pedagogical approaches for the Business Organisations Law curriculum to undergraduate non-law students at Charles Sturt University. The purpose is to compare and evaluate efficacy of a traditional, lecture-based learning (LBL) with a combination of LBL and problem-based…
Descriptors: Law Related Education, Accounting, Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students
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McDougal, Serie, III – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
Interviews with students at an all-Black, all-male school in a major northeastern city revealed that a significant proportion of the participating students had a strong preference for practical, demonstrative explanations of new concepts and information that are directly related to their everyday experiential realities. These findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Males, Interviews, Urban Schools, Relevance (Education)
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Oluk, Sami; Ozalp, Isilay – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
In this study, with selecting the focusing point of the problem as the availability of cartoons, the teaching of global environmental problems according to the constructivist theory is investigated on the 7th graders in rural areas. This study is restricted with the global warming (G), ozone depletion (O) and the acid rain (A) problems. In the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Science Education, Problem Based Learning
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Roderick, Carol; Carusetta, Ellen – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2006
This qualitative study provides insight into the first-year university experiences of students in a problem-based learning context an area that has received little attention in the literature. Data collection consisted of one-on-one interviews with students throughout their first year and of participant observation of students in the classroom at…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Time Management, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
Nicol, Cynthia; Crespo, Sandra – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This study examines the learning of five pre-service teachers investigating a question stemming from their mathematics teaching as part of a final course project in their elementary teacher education program. Analysis of video recordings of group meetings and interviews indicate that as pre-service teachers completed their projects they developed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Teacher Education Programs, Investigations
Handley, Karen; Cox, Benita – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2007
The importance of feedback as an aid to self-assessment is widely acknowledged. A common form of feedback that is used widely in e-learning is the use of model answers. However, model answers are deficient in many respects. In particular, the notion of a "model" answer implies the existence of a single correct answer applicable across multiple…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Adult Learning, Adult Students, Management Development