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The Use of Action Learning Sets on a DBA Programme -- An Account of Practice from the Students' Perspective
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Bird, Dorothy; Duffy, Patrice – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2021
This account of practice details the experiences of two doctoral students, on a DBA programme in the UK, as participants in an action learning set. It outlines the background to setting up the action learning set and describes early assumptions made by the students in relation to action learning structures. It highlights the initial difficulties…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Business Administration Education, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes
Problem-solving and Cognitive Style.
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Garrett, Roger M. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1989
Reviewed are 15 studies on cognitive style and problem solving in science education. The effects of problem context, problem type, and three kinds of cognitive style on subjects' abilities to encounter and solve problems are investigated. Three protocols of the subjects' encountering activities are provided. (YP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence, Foreign Countries, Physics
Building a Bridge between GCSE and "A"-Level.
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Kitchen, Ann – Mathematics in School, 1989
Discusses three types of bridges to determine how best to model each one: (1) drawbridge; (2) balance bridge; and (3) bascule bridge. Describes four experiments with assumptions, analyses, interpretations, and validations. Provides several diagrams and pictures of the bridges, and typical data. (YP)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Enrichment, Mathematical Formulas