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Brad Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study proposes a participatory pedagogical framework founded on critical thinking as a method for analysis, reflection, and creative production of media through an understanding of the ways in which media literacy is being taught in higher education institutions in the United States. A qualitative design was utilized that included techniques…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Educational Policy, Media Education, Learning Objectives
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Marbouti, Farshid; Shafaat, Ali; Ulas, Jale; Diefes-Dux, Heidi A. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Background: A factor related to students' course performance that has seen limited research compared to other academic factors is the time of day a class is offered. Because of students' chronotypes (i.e., preferred time of day to study or work), time of class can influence attendance, which has a strong correlation with students' performance in a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Engineering Education, Attendance, Grades (Scholastic)
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Chi, Michelene T. H.; Adams, Joshua; Bogusch, Emily B.; Bruchok, Christiana; Kang, Seokmin; Lancaster, Matthew; Levy, Roy; Li, Na; McEldoon, Katherine L.; Stump, Glenda S.; Wylie, Ruth; Xu, Dongchen; Yaghmourian, David L. – Cognitive Science, 2018
ICAP is a theory of active learning that differentiates students' engagement based on their behaviors. ICAP postulates that Interactive engagement, demonstrated by co-generative collaborative behaviors, is superior for learning to "Constructive" engagement, indicated by generative behaviors. Both kinds of engagement exceed the benefits…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Outcomes of Education, Learning Theories
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Shepherd, Gary – Educational Action Research, 2018
Accounts of practice within the action learning literature tend to omit the more mundane session-to-session details of the inner-workings of the action learning set. As well as concentrating on the problem, individuals in all sets spend some of their time in unproductive interpersonal exchanges. These exchanges may be considered trivialities and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Research, Problem Solving, Reflection
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Aranha, Elzo Alves; dos Santos, Paulo Henrique; Garcia, Neuza Abbud Prado – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
Academic papers on entrepreneurship in engineers' education have been growing in the last decades. However, studies on entrepreneurship in engineering have not sought to analyze how entrepreneurship education, in connection to active learning, design thinking, and Bloom's Taxonomy, inserted in an integrated way, as a tool, might help the process…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Active Learning
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Aragón, Oriana R.; Eddy, Sarah L.; Graham, Mark J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Mounting evidence of the efficacy of active learning has prompted educators to consider adoption of these practices in college-level classrooms. One tenet of active learning is that most, if not all, students have the ability to learn. Instructors' perspectives on learning, however, may or may not be aligned with this. One belief held by some…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, College Faculty
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Lin, Kuen-Yi; Lu, Shao-Chuan – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
Energy literacy is a key factor in ensuring the protection of the natural environment. Numerous studies on energy literacy have demonstrated the development of instructional methods to promote the willingness to save energy as a critical research subject. Through a project-based activity, this research explored how hands on activities improve the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Learning Activities, High School Students
Norris, Russell L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Prior research recognizes police academy education as being predominately teacher-centered, with a strong focus on the transmission of information. The research also calls for increased student-centered police education that engages students in critically analyzing and apply their learning. The literature suggests that this gap--between…
Descriptors: Police, Police Education, Training, Police Community Relationship
Chi, Michelene T. H.; Adams, Joshua; Bogusch, Emily B.; Bruchok, Christiana; Kang, Seokmin; Lancaster, Matthew; Levy, Roy; Li, Na; McEldoon, Katherine L.; Stump, Glenda S.; Wylie, Ruth; Xu, Dongchen; Yaghmourian, David L. – Grantee Submission, 2018
ICAP is a theory of active learning that differentiates students' engagement based on their behaviors. ICAP postulates that "Interactive" engagement, demonstrated by co-generative collaborative behaviors, is superior for learning to "Constructive" engagement, indicated by generative behaviors. Both kinds of engagement exceed…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learner Engagement, Outcomes of Education, Learning Theories
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Mirjam Burget; Emanuele Bardone; Margus Pedaste; Katrin Saage – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has recently gained wider importance in the European Union (EU) as an emergent framework informing the governance of science. While a growing body of literature describing RRI and its main conceptual dimensions has appeared in the last seven years or so and in several policy documents, the European…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Education, Scientific Research
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Telegina, Nadezhda V.; Drovosekov, Sergey E.; Vasbieva, Dinara G.; Zakharova, Valeria L. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
The relevance of this study is due to the ever-growing demands that the rapidly developing society makes to the education system, according to which the priority factor in the development of students is the ability to independently plan their activities to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills during joint creative and cognitive activity. It…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Zufriady; Kurniaman, Otang – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2019
The "nomor acak" learning model is done by randomly giving number to each student and making them remember it from the beginning to the end of the lecture. The function was to make each student be more active in the teaching and learning activities, since they must be prepared with their respective material if the number was called. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Art Education
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Brown, Benjamin D. – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2019
Project based learning instructional strategies have been used in the K-12 and college setting to activate learning and engagement. Problem Based Learning allows students to learn by taking on real world problems. Research and literature shows that Project Based Learning can increase collaboration, problem-solving skills, communication,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, College Students, Guidance
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Easterly, R. G., III; Myers, Brian E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2019
Teachers should possess a set of professional commitments, which includes active participation in professional development that leads to student learning. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between professional development engagement and career satisfaction. This study used a quantitative descriptive correlational research…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Agricultural Education, Job Satisfaction, Active Learning
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Preston, Christine – Teaching Science, 2019
Through Preschool and Foundation Level, children are confident in their knowledge about rocks. Five- to six-year-olds have firm ideas on what they consider rocks are and where they might be found (Preston, 2018). With the exception of children who are avid rock collectors, such knowledge usually comprises general, inconsistent ideas formed from…
Descriptors: Geology, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
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