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Diana Owen – Grantee Submission, 2024
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that provides civics, social studies, and American government students with the opportunity to actively and cooperatively engage with real-world issues and situations. Students typically identify a problem in their community or school, research the problem and policy-based solutions,…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Social Studies, Citizen Participation
Darragh, Lisa – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2018
In this paper, I look at multiple layers of context to explore the "figured world" of mathematics teaching in primary schools in Chile. I collected data from 15 teachers during 18 months after their participation in professional development for collaborative problem-solving mathematics. I found constraints to impact on the teachers'…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students
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Mayall, Robert M.; Arcellana-Panlilio, Mayi – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
With the ever-increasing push towards authentic learning within post-secondary institutions, many approaches are being explored. One such method with a particular focus on real-world applications has been the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition program. At the University of Calgary, the iGEM program sees teams of…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Teacher Workshops, College Faculty, Vignettes
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Lyding, Verena; Nicolas, Lionel; Bédi, Branislav; Fort, Karën – Research-publishing.net, 2018
We present enetCollect, a large European network project funded as a COST Action that sets ground for combining crowdsourcing with IT technologies used in areas such as language learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This project tackles a major challenge of bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to foster language learning of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Program Descriptions, Natural Language Processing
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Preuss, Michael D.; Merriweather, Samuel P.; Walton, Shannon D.; Butler-Purry, Karen L. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The Texas A&M University (TAMU) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) office provided funding to the Texas A&M University College of Engineering to support student participation in the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR) program. ELCIR is a two-week, study abroad, research program…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Engineering Education, First Generation College Students
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McCormick, Meghan P.; White, Hope; Horn, Elizabeth Parham; Lacks, Rachel Stephanie; O'Connor, Erin E.; Cappella, Elise; McClowry, Sandee G. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
This study investigated the impacts of "INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament" on instructional support and math and reading skills in kindergarten and first grade classrooms with high levels of student shyness. "INSIGHTS" is a temperament-based intervention with teacher, parent, and classroom programs. 22 urban elementary…
Descriptors: Shyness, Personality Traits, Mathematics Instruction, Reading Instruction
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de Melo Bezerra, Juliana; Martins, Cristiane Aparecida; Teles, Lara Kühl; de Oliveira, Neusa Maria Franco; da Silva, Maria Margareth; dos Santos, Leila Ribeiro; Piani, Raquel Caratti – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The development of transversal competences is essential for the success of engineers, who need to have the ability to adapt to the new and changing demands posed by modern society and scientific advances. It is a challenge for professors to teach and evaluate transversal competences, since such competences are related to attitudes and values. We…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Competence, STEM Education, Student Motivation
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Simon, Martin A.; Placa, Nicora; Avitzur, Arnon – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
Tzur and Simon (2004) postulated two stages of concept development, participatory and anticipatory. The distinction between the two stages was exemplified by what they termed "the next-day phenomenon" in which learners who could solve a task one day in the context of the activity through which they made the abstraction, could not solve…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Walsh, Christopher S.; Townsin, Louise – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
The Millennium Project, an international participatory think tank that uses futures research to systematically explore, create and test both possible and desirable futures in order to improve decisions in the present, presents unprecedented challenges for Australian education. Their publication, 2015-16 State of the Future, outlines 15 global…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Intercultural Communication, Futures (of Society)
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Ngo, Thi Phuong Le – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A Virtual Resource Center (VRC) has been brought into use since 2008 as an integral part of a task-based language teaching and learning program for Business English courses at Nantes University, France. The objective of the center is to enable students to work autonomously and individually on their language problems so as to improve their language…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis, Business Communication, Second Language Learning
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Colmenero, Manuel Jacinto Roblizo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The paper presents a successful educational practice that, inspired by the "dialogic learning" methodological principles, is implemented through a "learning community." Theoretical bases are introduced, along with some defining traits of didactic practice. The focus is on the 'La Paz' "learning community" case, as a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Communities of Practice, Poverty, Neighborhoods
Barilli, Elomar Castilho; de Freitas Barretto, Stenio; Lima, Carla Moura; Menezes, Marco Antonio – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper is intended to share the results of the assessment of the use of the Online Work Community (OWC), developed in the Moodle technology that was used as an instrument to facilitate the educational and operational processes, intended to share problems and proposals for solution among the 470 members of the development teams, made up of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Communities of Practice, Familiarity, Critical Theory
Graham, Lorraine; Pegg, John – Online Submission, 2010
This paper reports data from the evaluation of the numeracy component of a long-running educational intervention, covering the period from 2001 to 2008. "QuickSmart" is both an intervention and research project operating in Australian schools. It is a structured intervention program designed for middle-school students (ages 10 to 13…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Intervention, Numeracy, Achievement Tests
Neilans, Thomas H.; And Others – 1981
This paper describes the application of a systems approach model to assessing families with a labeled noncompliant child. The first section describes and comments on the applied methodology for the model. The second section describes the classification of 61 families containing a child labeled by the family as noncompliant. An analysis of data…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Classification, Family Counseling
Norris, William C. – 1978
Described in this paper are strategies and programs developed by the Control Data Corporation to address inner-city needs. Strategies cited include the establishment of new plants in economically depressed areas and the encouragement of local community support in business operations. Specific programs discussed are directed at the disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Support
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