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Gossman, Peter; Stewart, Terry; Jaspers, Marlene; Chapman, Bruce – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
This article reports on a small-scale research project (n = 56) that investigated student educational gain. For the purposes of this study, gain is defined as an increase in the score that students obtain for pre/post intervention tests. Students received authentic exposure to the process via a web-delivered problem-based scenario. The students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Control Groups, Student Evaluation
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Garde-Hansen, Joanne; Calvert, Ben – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
A great deal of value is placed on student research within universities, exemplified by the prominent role of the dissertation or extended written work at the end of many programmes, and the more general benefits of embedding research-based learning into a curriculum in order to develop higher-order learning. This article reports on a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Problem Based Learning, Research Skills