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Franco, Myra Suzanne – Education, 2019
For over 25 years, my lecture driven teaching strategies that included passive learning outcomes has prevailed in my K12 and higher education teaching. The requirement to help doctoral students identify and understand their epistemology, ontology and worldview within a research methods class created a dilemma regarding the appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
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Yilmaz, Ali – Education, 2009
Self-efficacy is one of the important concepts of the social cognitive theory, and can be defined as individual's perception of his or her own capabilities for organizing and successfully executing the courses of action required to attain designated types of performance. Teachers with high self-efficacy perception can contribute to creation of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Self Efficacy, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Arif, Mohammed; Smiley, Frederick M.; Kulonda, Dennis J. – Education, 2005
In the 1960s, the U.S. business community utilized the term "push/pull" to indicate whether or not industry should use the "one-size-fits all" or whether it should listen to consumers' needs and feedback as a system of producing and marketing products. As well, U.S. public education has become much more accountability-laden…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Total Quality Management, Epistemology, Public Education