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Not All Metacognition Is Created Equal.
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Hacker, Douglas J.; Dunlosky, John – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
Suggests that professors may want to help students think carefully about their own thinking. This article offers a practical approach that professors can use to help individual students and students within classrooms think metacognitively about their problem-solving efforts. (SWM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Problem Based Learning, Student Participation
Problem Solving through Design.
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Nelson, Wayne A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
Using the metaphor of "design studios," this article offers an example of how a professor implemented a problem-solving-through-design model. Based on this example, professors can redistribute resources and reconsider the role of both students and professors to support "design" as a method of problem solving. (SWM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Problem Based Learning, Student Participation, Teacher Student Relationship
Problem-Based Learning: One Approach to Increasing Student Participation.
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Wilkerson, LuAnn; Feletti, Grahame – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1989
Problem-based learning is an approach that can be used to increase student participation while promoting the development of skills for lifelong learning. In solving problems learners acquire two types of knowledge--knowledge of concepts, principles and facts; and procedures for how to use them. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Instruction, Department Heads, Educational Improvement