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Smith, Bettye P.; Katz, Shana H. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2006
This article focuses on the use of problem-based learning in high school foods and nutrition classes. Problem-based learning, an instructional approach that promotes active learning, is the elaboration of knowledge that occurs through discussion, answering questions, peer teaching, and critiquing. Students are confronted with a simulated or real…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Nutrition, Active Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2010
For the thirty-third year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the national AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Research and Development, Educational Technology, Annual Reports
Kelley, Todd; Brenner, Daniel C.; Pieper, Jon T. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2010
A comparative study was conducted to compare two approaches to engineering design curriculum between different schools (inter-school) and between two curricular approaches, "Project Lead the Way" (PLTW) and "Engineering Projects in Community Service" (EPIC High) (inter-curricular). The researchers collected curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Protocol Analysis, Surveys, Engineering
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Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Linder-VanBerschot, Jennifer A.; LaPointe, Deborah K.; Rao, Lalita – American Journal of Distance Education, 2010
This study explores factors that predict learner satisfaction and transfer of learning in an online educational program at a multinational corporation, established to improve organizational learning by providing training in technical skills. A mixed-methods design was used, selecting both quantitative methods (utilizing survey research) and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Self Efficacy, Transfer of Training, Methods
Huelskamp, Lisa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The need for effective teachers is growing while national and state standards are putting ever-increasing demands on teachers and raising expectations for student achievement. Low science and mathematics standardized test scores, particularly in the middle grades, reflect unprepared adolescents, perhaps because of ineffective teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Computer Simulation, State Standards, Standardized Tests
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Remedios, Louisa; Clarke, David; Hawthorne, Lesleyanne – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2008
PBL is described as small-group collaborative learning; however, literature on how collaboration is enacted in PBL contexts is limited. A two-year ethnographic study examined the experiences and responses of Asian students to the obligations of PBL in a Western context. Participant-observation, videotape data, and video-stimulated recall…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, Ethnography, Asians
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Luft, Pamela; Brown, Christina M.; Sutherin, Laurie J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2007
Benchmarks and standards have become an important part of the teachers' instructional focus since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. As educators they all recognize the importance of having high expectations of their students. Standards help schools articulate these expectations clearly to students, their parents, and the community. Yet, there…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Standards
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Crandall, Sonia J. S.; Reboussin, Beth A.; Michielutte, Robert; Anthony, Jennie E.; Naughton, Michelle J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2007
Medical education has been shown to negatively influence student attitudes toward certain types of patient populations. Past research does not inform current educational practice because today's medical school environment is different from when most of the published research was conducted. There are more female students, curricular innovations…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Medical Schools
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McNair, Victor; Clarke, Robin B. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2007
Technology and design was added to the Northern Ireland curriculum in September 1992 and through it, teachers seek to address the need for pupils to understand the ever-changing man-made world by developing skills and understanding in its four elements of designing, communicating, manufacturing and the use of energy and control. To be effective in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
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Wong, Donna Kam Pun; Lam, Debbie Oi Bing – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
This study evaluated the effects of problem-based learning (PBL) in social work education. The participants were 132 second-year social work students who took the core courses of Social Work Theory and Practice and Skills Laboratory in the PBL mode. A 40-item scale was used to measure the students' perceptions of their social work knowledge,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Measures (Individuals), Social Work
Burris, Scott; Garton, Bryan L. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of problem-based learning (PBL) on critical thinking ability and content knowledge among selected secondary agriculture students in Missouri. The study employed a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent comparison group design. The treatment consisted of two instructional strategies: problem-based…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Agricultural Education, Problem Based Learning, Critical Thinking
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Kieser, Jules; Livingstone, Vicki; Meldrum, Alison – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
The aim of the present work was to see if storytelling in a clinical dental anatomy course would increase student satisfaction. We enhanced teaching by spontaneous storytelling in problem-based learning, in half of the third-year dentistry class. At the end of the course, we administered an anonymous questionnaire to the students in the class,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Dentistry, Likert Scales
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Cartelli, Antonio; Stansfield, Mark; Connolly, Thomas; Jimoyiannis, Athanassios; Magalhaes, Hugo; Maillet, Katherine – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2008
This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture co-financed project PBP-VC, Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses, which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the implementation of virtual campuses. The paper outlines a tentative model of issues…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Virtual Universities, Distance Education, Program Implementation
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Boyce, Mary C.; Singh, Kuki – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
This paper describes a student-focused activity that promotes effective learning in analytical chemistry. Providing an environment where students were responsible for their own learning allowed them to participate at all levels from designing the problem to be addressed, planning the laboratory work to support their learning, to providing evidence…
Descriptors: College Science, Portfolio Assessment, Chemistry, Problem Solving
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Hansen, James D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2006
In this article, the author describes the process of writing a problem-based learning (PBL) problem and shows how a typical end-of-chapter accounting problem can be converted to a PBL problem. PBL uses complex, real-world problems to motivate students to identify and research the concepts and principles they need to know to solve these problems.…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Accounting, Student Motivation, Problem Solving
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