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Marshall, Jill; Bhasin, Amit; Boyles, Stephen; David, Bernard; James, Rachel; Patrick, Anita – Advances in Engineering Education, 2018
Our study used a natural experiment to compare a project-based cornerstone course with the traditionally-taught introductory course in civil engineering. During the study, two sections of the course were organized around an overarching project, the design of an event center, and the remaining sections used guest lectures, a textbook, and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Civil Engineering, Student Attitudes
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Khinkanina, Alla L.; Serova, Olga E. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The results of the empirical investigation of the characteristics of value and professional orientation of the students taking studies in social and computer engineering related fields are presented. The types of value structure uncovered depend on the students' attitudes to the values significant for the professional evolution (active mode of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Science Education
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Cheruvalath, Reena – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Attending classes develops an ability in students to understand others' perspectives and help them to interact with their fellow peers in more adaptive ways. Teacher-student interaction and student-student interaction in a classroom facilitate students' participation in various class activities, which in turn oblige them to regard human values.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Compulsory Education
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Hopp, Manuel; Händel, Marion; Stoeger, Heidrun; Vialle, Wilma; Ziegler, Albert – Education Sciences, 2016
Implicit theories can influence learning behavior, the approaches individuals take to learning and performance situations, and the learning goals individuals set, as well as, indirectly, their accomplishments, intelligence, and creativity. For this cross-cultural study, Kenyan and German students were asked to draw a creative person and rate it on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Creativity, Intelligence, Freehand Drawing
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Sayed, Emam Moustafa; Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan Hemdan – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The issue of gender differences in creativity has been a controversial and much-disputed subject for decades. The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences in divergent thinking and the effect of gender-grade level interaction on divergent thinking. The sample consisted of 901 (367 boys and 534 girls), from K to 6, who were recruited…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Creativity, Interaction, Elementary School Students
Plucker, Jonathan A. – 1996
This study re-examined three previous studies on creativity in an attempt to address the question of whether creativity is content general or content specific. Statistical re-examinations were conducted that involved inferential statistical analyses (factor analysis and multivariate analysis) of correlation matrices representing student scores on…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Freshmen, Correlation, Creativity