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Chagas-Bastos, Fabrício H.; Burges, Sean W. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
When new graduates begin employment in industries such as government, consultancies, or the nongovernmental sector they are expected to have the skills needed to write politically-informed reports accurately. Teaching how to write briefing notes provides students with an important skill, but also provides an effective instrument for examining…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Political Science, International Relations, Skill Development
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Markušic, Jela; Sabljic, Jakov – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
The problem-based teaching of literature is a contemporary teaching model that has emerged from the need to overcome the weaknesses of traditional teaching and to increase the efficiency of educational work. Unlike the traditional paradigms that focused on the teacher and the lecturing model of education, the problem-based teaching of literature…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Literature, Language Arts
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Merricks, Jessica; Lankford, Deanna – Science and Children, 2019
For some elementary science teachers, a unit on land and water brings nightmares of dirt and water all over the room. Several Earth science "kits" contain hands-on exercises that allow the students to "get messy" as they manipulate materials; however, these lessons may lack the necessary opportunities for students to ask unique…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Science Education, Relevance (Education)
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Brown, Julie – School Science Review, 2019
If you have not yet come across Practical Action's teaching resources, this article will open your eyes to a wealth of free high-quality materials that will support your teaching of science within a real-life global context. The potential benefits and importance of this approach, both for increasing student engagement in science and for the future…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Science Instruction, Global Approach, Problem Based Learning
Jacquay, Greg – ProQuest LLC, 2019
A qualitative phenomenological study examining the learning activities that take place at a college radio station. The research objective is to understand the social practices that make possible or hinder the construction of learning experiences at KCSS, the campus radio station at California State University, Stanislaus. Document analysis,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Radio, Learning Activities, Social Influences
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Sadaf, Ayesha; Kim, Stella – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
This study examined the impact of case-based discussions on students perceived cognitive presence, learning and satisfaction in online courses. Forty-four online graduate students enrolled in an instructional design course completed an online survey. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a paired-samples t-test.…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Student Satisfaction
Gaynell Diane Juarez – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Meeting standardized test benchmarks is a challenge for elementary school students in Texas. The problem is that some elementary schools do not meet the performance standards of the fourth-grade STAAR state test average. Problem-based learning is a model used in schools to initiate problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach to real-world…
Descriptors: Scores, Standardized Tests, Benchmarking, Achievement Tests
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Erdogan, Tolga – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study is to investigate the research trends in dissertations on PBL from 2002 to 2015 in Turkey. For this purpose, the master's and doctorate dissertations in the National Thesis Database of Council of Higher Education (CoHE) were selected for rigorous content analysis. The analysis was utilized to classify the type of study, the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Content Analysis
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Doomernik, Denise E.; van Goor, Harry; Kooloos, Jan G. M.; ten Broek, Richard P. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2017
The Radboud University Medical Center has a problem-based, learner-oriented, horizontally, and vertically integrated medical curriculum. Anatomists and clinicians have noticed students' decreasing anatomical knowledge and the disability to apply knowledge in diagnostic reasoning and problem solving. In a longitudinal cohort, the retention of…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Medical Students, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
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Stentoft, Diana – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Problem-based learning is often characterised as an approach encompassing interdisciplinary learning; however, little attention has been explicitly paid to what a claim of interdisciplinary problem-based learning means in practice. Even less attention has been given to address the consequences of interdisciplinary problem-based learning for…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Barriers, Problem Based Learning
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Sedaghat, Ahmad; AlJundub, Mohammad; Eilaghi, Armin; Bani-Hani, Ehab; Sabri, Farhad; Mbarki, Raouf; Assad, M. El Haj – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The PBL unit of fluid and electrical drive systems is taught in final semester of undergraduates in mechanical engineering department of the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK). The recent project on an automated punching machine is discovered more appealing to both students and instructors in triggering new ideas and satisfaction end results. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Mechanics (Physics)
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Møller, Kim Malmbak Meltofte; Fast, Michael – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The purpose of this article is to discuss the relationship between learning, epistemology, and intersubjectivity in the context of problem-based learning and project-oriented work at a university level. It aims to show how the collaboration of students in a group over a long period of time can put emphasis on the knowledge-practice discussion, and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Learning Processes, Epistemology, Active Learning
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Awacorach, Judith; Jensen, Iben; Lassen, Inger; Olanya, David Ross; Zakaria, Hanan Lassen; Tabo, Geoffrey Olok – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The overall purpose of this study is to prefigure the feasibility of Problem Based Learning (PBL) for building research and employability capacity of MA-students in the context of Gulu University. Following a description of the basic tenets of PBL, we explain how PBL was used in experimental community outreach workshops for MA-students between…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Sustainability
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Rivera, Julio; Groleau, Tom – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, the dissolution of the silos between geography and business faculty to form a teaching partnership with a common set of questions and goals and how that partnership changed their academic perspectives will be explored. Faculty deepened the challenges for students, re-thought pedagogical models, and re-thought grading and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Business Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Hallmon, Augustus W.; Myllykangas, Susan A.; Nagata, Shinichi – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
Myllykangas postulated that students studying various careers within the parks and recreation profession might prefer a certain learning style, which is, often the case, different from the teaching style used by the faculty. In order to address learning styles of students, it is essential to be able to adapt to the learning styles of each student…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Parks, Recreation, Leisure Time
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