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Megan Goeke; David DeLiema – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Agency is a core pedagogical goal of the maker education movement. However, there are still many unknowns about how agency is identified in maker settings. To document maker educator professional visions of agency, we conducted video-cued interviews with eleven U.S-based maker educators using video clips of families making in a drop-in…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Museums, Shared Resources and Services, Cooperative Learning
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Liszka, James; Card, Robert; Clark, Patricia; Coleman, Kimberly J.; Leibensperger, Eric; Mattingly, R. Bruce; McGuire, Mary; Nollenberg, Joshua; VanSlyke-Briggs, Kjersti; Wilson, Leigh – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
The Common Problems Project (CP2) is an interdisciplinary, problem-based pedagogy that was launched in 2015 by four partner colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system (Cortland, Oneonta, Oswego, and Plattsburgh). Since its inception, 100 faculty have participated in CP2 and integrated the pedagogy into 134 courses to implement 47…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach, Community Involvement
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Karan, Ebrahim; Brown, Lisa – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2022
The goal of the study is to overcome two main drawbacks of traditional science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pedagogical strategies using PBL - lack of student engagement and students who are not prepared for more complex problems. PBL teaching strategies practiced in an introductory class are assessed. Classroom observations and…
Descriptors: College Students, Problem Solving, Skill Development, Active Learning
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Wei Xu; Jia-Chen Chen; Ye-feng Lou; Hang Chen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Maker education can enhance learners' creativity. Design thinking can facilitate the innovative resolution of complex problems. The design thinking literature and most maker teaching modes are limited in their promotion of learning and ability development in various dimensions. Learners have stereotypes about some professions; interventions can…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects
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Birney, Lauren; McNamara, Denise M. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2021
The aim of this study is to showcase the use of incorporating problem-solving in a multifaceted, long-term investigation. New York Harbor and its estuaries are undergoing a major revitalization due to the efforts of the Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Environmental Restoration Project. Comprised of a network of local educational and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, STEM Education, Natural Resources, Conservation (Environment)
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Nguyen, Ha; Gijlers, Hannie; Pisoni, Galena – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine how students perceive groupwork and identify patterns of less successful groups in online challenge-based learning. Design/methodology/approach: This study involved 29 university students working in nine teams in an online challenge-based course. The authors applied Volet's (2001) Student Appraisal…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Problem Based Learning, Online Courses
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Jin, Yi; Harron, Jason R. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2022
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, some teacher education programs started maker education initiatives to integrate the tools, practices, and mindset of the maker movement into their curricula. These efforts came to a grinding halt at the beginning of the pandemic due to the sudden transition to emergency remote teaching (ERT). Post-ERT, educators have…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Tsai, Chi-Ruei; Tai, Kai-Hsin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: The linkage between group members' characteristics, group cohesiveness, knowledge application, and competitive performance has rarely been studied. Purpose: This study aimed to explore the correlations among individual characteristics (i.e. prosociality), collective mind (i.e. collective efficacy and cohesiveness), and how these…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Knowledge Level, STEM Education, Art Education
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Zeid, Abe – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
Teaching STEM concepts to today's high school students has been challenging. Span of attention is short. Students are glued to their electronic devices. They cannot appreciate the abstract method of teaching, meaning covering concepts followed by solving problems from a textbook. Research has shown that students become excited and motivated to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, STEM Education, High School Students, Problem Based Learning
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Caratachea, Matthew X.; Greene, Moe Debbagh; Jones, W. Monty – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
The shift from traditional education to maker-centered learning calls for an analysis and evaluation of the current studies on professional development in maker-centered learning. The current systematic literature review was conducted to examine existing literature on teacher professional development for maker-centered learning. It aligns the…
Descriptors: Teachers, Faculty Development, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Lyon, Edward G.; Kochevar, R.; Gould, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Making in schools, where students produce and share physical or virtual objects, has garnered increased global attention for its potential to foster twenty-first century learning in STEM and develop students' inventiveness, creativity, and entrepreneurial thinking. However, there has been limited attention paid to how maker-centred learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Self Concept, Individual Development
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Moayyedian, Mehdi; Alateeqi, Ameenah; Alzuabi, Dalal; Burhama, Reem; Alathari, Shouq – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2020
A beneficial project is defined and implemented for the senior project of bachelor students of mechanical engineering program in the school of engineering at American University of The Middle East (AUM). Students need to design, analysis, and optimize a solar car chassis using Design of Experiment (DOE). It is required that the design process and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Projects, Teamwork, Design
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Chia, Austin – Management Teaching Review, 2019
Consulting projects where students are tasked to propose solutions to a client issue are a common feature in many business courses. Whether scenario-based or dealing with real clients, students engaged in consulting tasks tend to focus on solution development without giving due consideration to the underlying process by which they derive their…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Student Projects, Consultation Programs, Business Administration Education
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Amélie Lemieux – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
This article delves into moments of affect, puncturing the exchanges between an early career 2SLGBTQ+ researcher and a group of Canadian adolescents, mostly composed of girls, who developed a ClayMation video to take the pulse of emerging vibrancies in maker literacies. Among these dynamisms came the matter of gender in the research project.…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Adolescents, Researchers, Novices
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Apriyani, Rany; Ramalis, Taufik Ramlan; Suwarma, Irma Rahma – Journal of Science Learning, 2019
This research has been conducted to analyze students' problem-solving abilities in direct current electricity in STEM-based learning. The implementation of STEM in this research is to train the domain of scientific practices and engineering practices that are associated with model problems and project-based learning. The research method used was…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Energy, STEM Education, Foreign Countries
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