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Bae, Haesol; Feng, Chen; Glazewski, Krista; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Chen, Yuxin; Mott, Bradford W.; Lee, Seung Y.; Lester, James C. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
Because implementing and orchestrating collaborative problem-based learning (PBL) in K-12 classrooms requires teachers to manage multiple activities and access various teaching resources at the same time, this is an exceptionally complex task for designers to develop tools for orchestration support as well as for teachers to coordinate. The aim of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon; Nekane Beloki; Ion Yarritu; Idoia Zarrazquin; Karmele Artano – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Teaching based on active methodologies emphasizes the importance of giving students a leading role in the learning process. With the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, universities have undergone a reform that significantly increased student involvement in the teaching-learning process. The University of the Basque Country…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning
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Ito, Hiroshi; Takeuchi, Shinichi – Education Inquiry, 2022
Active learning is the outcome of a series of higher education policy reforms conducted in the late 2000s and early 2010s in Japan. This approach gained momentum after it was prioritised in a comprehensive report produced by the Central Council of Education (an advisory board of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology).…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Alissa Bianculli – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of teachers in kindergarten through first grade utilizing digital technologies to engage elementary students during mathematics instruction. This phenomenological study was guided by the following research questions. (1) How do elementary…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Tanya Venee Stitt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how high school teachers describe problem-based learning as an instructional model for student learning in various academic disciplines in the United States. The research was grounded in constructivist learning theory and Problem-based learning (PBL). The study addressed two research…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Instructional Design
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Isabel Ángel-Uribe; Lina Cano-Vásquez; Giovanni López-Molina – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
STEM education seeks to respond to the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution and to prepare future generations of the city in 21st century skills and scientific and technological vocations. This article aims to identify the characteristics of the educational experiences lived in processes of partial and total implementation of the STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Experience, Likert Scales, Problem Based Learning
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Walan, Susanne; Gericke, Niklas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This case study aimed to investigate teachers' reflections on the transfer of makerspace activities into classrooms. Primary and secondary STEM teachers participated in a Continuous Professional Development programme about makerspaces. Data were collected in the form of written reflections and semi-structured interviews after the teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education, Faculty Development
Ana Breda; Vanelson Garcia; Nelson Santos – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2023
The support of academics, professionals, and researchers from the most diverse scientific areas to STEAM education is due to the strong impact it has on preparing citizens for a world of continuous scientific and technological development. Among its benefits, we highlight the improvement of critical, innovative, and creative thinking; the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Looney, Bridget – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although there has been an abundance of empirical inquiry into making in recent years, interestingly, and despite growing interest in the integration of making into N-12 education, little seems to be known empirically about the ways in which teachers are implementing making and creating makerspaces in their own classrooms. Very little direct…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Shared Resources and Services, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Ehrenfeld, Nadav; Schneeberger McGugan, Katherine; Marshall, Samantha A.; Garner, Brette – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
Mathematics teachers develop understandings about instruction across multiple settings, such as classrooms, workshops, and professional learning communities. When teacher teams collaborate, their prior teaching and learning experiences meaningfully inform their sensemaking. However, current research does not explicitly link teacher conversations…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers
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Koh, Kim; Delanoy, Nadia; Bene, Rose; Thomas, Christy; Danysk, Gail; Hone, Gabrielle; Turner, Jeff; Chapman, Olive – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
Problem-based Learning (PBL) has long been touted as an effective pedagogical approach in higher education to promote students' authentic learning. As a learner-centered pedagogy, PBL is characterized by students working collaboratively in small groups to solve messy, ill-structured problems that mirror real-world problems encountered by expert…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Assessment Literacy, Authentic Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Evans, Tanya; Klymchuk, Sergiy; Murphy, Priscilla E. L.; Novak, Julia; Stephens, Jason; Thomas, Mike – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This study describes an intervention that introduced a period of solving non-routine problems into tertiary STEM lectures. The aim was twofold: to attempt to increase student engagement and to introduce them to the kind of domain-free abstract reasoning that involves critical, creative and innovative thinking. The study involved over 600 STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Abstract Reasoning, Critical Thinking
Soi Chong Powell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In an effort to interest more students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes (STEM), more school systems have implemented maker education in the formal school setting. However, many teachers assigned to implement the maker curricula met difficulties due to their unfamiliarity with the maker mindset and lack of the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects
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Thibaut, Lieve; Knipprath, Heidi; Dehaene, Wim; Depaepe, Fien – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
A promising approach to increase students' motivation for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is integrated STEM education (iSTEM). This is an instructional approach that emphasizes the deeper connections between the STEM disciplines by involving students in design challenges centered around real-world problems. However, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Relevance (Education)
Khalaily, Hassan – Online Submission, 2019
Previous studies have demonstrated the pedagogical advantages of alternative teaching methods (ATMs) such as project-based learning, exploratory learning, collaborative learning, and technology-integrated teaching. However, their actual implementation rate is low. The research question is which factors most influence teachers to apply ATMs. A…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Education, Arabs
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