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Rose Wood; Rhonda Horne; Katie Makar – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Research shows that when students engage with mathematical inquiry their problem-solving skills are strengthened. Demands in the revised Australian curriculum raised problem-solving of new senior secondary mathematics assessment, specifically in Queensland Problem-solving and Modelling Tasks (PSMTs). The challenge for Queensland was to scale…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Problem Solving
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McLean, Mandy; McBeath, Jasmine Kyle; Susko, Tyler; Harlow, Danielle Boyd; Bianchini, Julie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
There is a growing demand in the US for more trained engineers, yet attrition rates from university engineering programs are high and diversity in engineering is low. Few resources have been dedicated to the improvement of freshman engineering courses even though freshman students have the highest rates of attrition. Through a synthesis of the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Engineering Education, Design, Active Learning
Holland, Barbara A.; Howard, Ted; Seligsohn, Andrew J. – Metropolitan Universities, 2018
Urban and metropolitan areas face unique challenges in serving the multifaceted needs of their communities, but also have advantages that create some of the world's greatest universities. Three scholars opened the 2017 CUMU [Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities] Annual Conference with "Voices from the Field." Each spoke to…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Urban Universities, Metropolitan Areas, Place Based Education
Laws, Kevin; Harbon, Lesley; Nguyen, Nam; Trinh, Lap – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
This paper presents the results of a collaborative project between the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the School of Education at Can Tho University, Vietnam. The project aimed to develop a model for the professional development of teacher educators in the context of educational innovations in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
Smith, Karen L.; Kolosick, J. Timothy – 1996
Faculty and students face new challenges and questions regarding their roles in the emerging learning paradigm brought on by educational technology. This paper discusses six shifts from traditional educational institutions to a learner-centered university. Changes and developments include: (1) the teacher: from instructional deliverer to learning…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Active Learning, Educational Development, Educational Technology
Shelton, Jack – 2000
The PACERS Small Schools Cooperative is an association of 29 small public schools in 25 communities in rural Alabama whose goal is to keep schools open by making visible their viability. To that end, the schools of the cooperative develop appropriate curricular and extracurricular opportunities for schools and students that involve the people in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Change Agents, Cooperatives, Educational Change