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Orji, Chibueze Tobias; Ogbuanya, Theresa Chinyere – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
The need to determine the mechanisms of change that explain why problem-based learning (PBL) interventions are effective necessitated this study. The current study draws on survey responses from 78 electrical/electronic technology education undergraduates at public universities in southeast Nigeria to test the hypotheses suggested. Hierarchical…
Descriptors: Ability, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Problem Based Learning
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Kim, Nam Ju; Belland, Brian R.; Axelrod, Daryl – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2019
Establishing optimal challenge enhances intrinsic motivation, interest, and the probability of success in the learning activity. In K-12 problem-based learning (PBL), students may struggle to address associated tasks that are beyond their current ability levels. This paper suggested learner-centered scaffolding systems (LSS) to improve K-12…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Study
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Sugiharti, Gulmah; Habeahan, Bastian Jose Wandry – International Education Studies, 2018
This study aims to determine the influence of learning models and numerical ability of students' chemistry learning outcomes on Thermochemical materials, as well as the interaction between learning models through the use of laboratory and numerical ability. The study was conducted on the students of grade XI IPA SMA N 1 Stabat consisting of 9…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Models, Interaction
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Akpan, Godwin A.; Essien, Emmanuel O.; Okure, Okure S. – International Education Studies, 2013
Individual differences refer to the unique ways each human being differs from another human being as expressed in behaviour or perceived in the physical appearance. Three factors of individual differences identified to be closely related to learning/acquisition of skills and performance of tasks. These are personality dimensions, self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Technical Education, Individual Differences, Personality Traits
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Jaeger, Martin; Adair, Desmond – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
The twofold purpose of this study is to identify engineering students' perceptions of a problem-based learning environment and to analyse the influence of their personal "situation," general "interest" in engineering and "ability" to succeed on their perception, after they were exposed to PBL for the first time. Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Student Interests, Ability
Guerrera, Claudia P.; Lajoie, Susanne P. – 1998
This aim of this study was to analyze the content of students' verbal interactions within a problem-based learning context in biology. This was achieved through the qualitative analysis of the verbal protocols of three groups of two clases of ninth-grade female students (average/high ability, high/high ability, and average/average ability). The…
Descriptors: Ability, Biology, Cooperation, Females