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Davidson, Ashley B.; Addison, Christopher J.; Charbonneau, James – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
Universities are recognizing the need to prepare graduates to think conceptually and have the ability to take on complex, real-world problems. Strategies to assess conceptual knowledge are limited and often require more time and effort to complete than is accessible for most undergraduate courses. Card sorting is a very broad technique for…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Task Analysis, College Freshmen, Scientific Concepts
Higgs, Bettie, Ed.; Kilcommins, Shane, Ed.; Ryan, Tony, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2010
In this volume the authors document examples of programmes/courses/activities that are designed intentionally to build students' capacity to be integrative thinkers and learners. In doing so they try to analyse and name the learning that is taking place, and so make it visible to the reader. The work is intended as a resource for all those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Holistic Approach
Ricles, Shannon – 2002
This teacher's guide, with accompanying videotape, presents an episode of the NASA SCI Files. In this episode, one of the tree house detectives has had an accident and cannot get into the tree house. Using problem-based learning, the rest of the gang investigates the world of simple machines and physical science and "pull" together to…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Education, Geography, Interdisciplinary Approach