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Burke, Alison S.; Fedorek, Brian – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
"Flipped" or inverted classrooms are designed to utilize class time for application and knowledge building, while course content is delivered through the use of online lectures and watched at home on the students' time. It is believed that flipped classrooms promote student engagement and a deeper understanding of the class material. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Homework
Jitendra, Asha K.; Harwell, Michael R.; Dupuis, Danielle N.; Karl, Stacy R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
This article reports results from a study investigating the efficacy of a proportional problem-solving intervention, schema-based instruction (SBI), in seventh grade. Participants included 806 students with mathematical difficulties in problem solving (MD-PS) from an initial pool of 1,999 seventh grade students in a larger study. Teachers and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Grade 7, Pretests Posttests, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Terrón-López, María-José; Velasco-Quintana, Paloma-Julia; García-García, María-José; Ocampo, Jared R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
A unified academic model based on the project-based learning (PBL) methodology was implemented, in the 2012-2013 period, in the School of Engineering at Universidad Europea de Madrid. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether teachers and students participating in the capstone projects feel that the objectives for which this methodology was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects
Hubbard, Jerry D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Although research has identified critical thinking (CT) as an objective of higher education, limited quantitative research has focused on how postsecondary instructors view using handheld devices for classroom collaboration to support CT. There are studies examining how the use of tablet technologies influence collaborative learning (CL), showing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Handheld Devices
Slater, Lori L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The demands on schools, teachers, and students continue to increase as greater accountability measures are put into place at all levels. For teachers to meet these increased demands, it is important that they be provided opportunities to improve and enhance their content knowledge and pedagogy. One way to ensure the provision of these…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Differences, Faculty Development, Regular and Special Education Relationship
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Boysen, Guy A.; Wells, Anna Mae; Dawson, Kaylee J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
College students have been increasingly demanding warnings and accommodations in relation to course topics they believe will elicit strong, negative emotions. These "trigger warnings" are highly relevant to Abnormal Psychology because of the sensitive topics covered in the course (e.g., suicide, trauma, sex). A survey of Abnormal…
Descriptors: Psychology, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Affective Behavior, Teaching Styles
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Safford, Kimberly – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
The research examined the impact on teachers of the grammar element of a new statutory test in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) in primary schools in England. The research aimed to evaluate the nature and the extent of changes to the teaching of grammar and to wider literacy teaching since the introduction of the test in 2013. The research…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grammar, Language Tests, Interviews
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Orlando, John – American Journal of Distance Education, 2016
The emergence of simple video and voice recording software has allowed faculty to deliver online course content in a variety of rich formats. But most faculty are still using traditional text comments for feedback to students. The author launched a study comparing student and faculty perceptions of text, voice, and screencasting feedback. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Friedrichsen, Patricia J.; Linke, Nicholas; Barnett, Ellen – Science Educator, 2016
The social controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution puts pressure on secondary biology teachers to deemphasize or omit evolution from their curriculum. In this growing pressure, professional development can offer support to biology teachers. In this study, we surveyed secondary biology teachers in Missouri and report the data from…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Teachers, Faculty Development, Science Instruction
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Brill, Jennifer M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
This research investigated peer review as a contemporary instructional pedagogy for fostering the design knowledge, skills, and dispositions of novice Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) professionals. Participants were graduate students enrolled in an introductory instructional design (ID) course. Survey, artifact, and observation data were…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Novices
Blue, Dawn I. – Online Submission, 2016
This quantitative study compared changes in level of confidence resulting from participation in simulation or traditional instructional methods for BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) to DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) students in a nurse practitioner course when they entered the clinical practicum. Simulation has been used in many disciplines…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Simulation, Conventional Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Trevisan, Ottavia; De Rossi, Marina – Research on Education and Media, 2023
The paper describes the international research conducted in collaboration between the University of Padova, University of North Texas, and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. The study explores how higher education faculty involved in professionalizing courses for the educational area perceive the pandemic-induced transition to digitalized…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Smith, Trevor I. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Model analysis provides a mechanism for representing student learning as measured by standard multiple-choice surveys. The model plot contains information regarding both how likely students in a particular class are to choose the correct answer and how likely they are to choose an answer consistent with a well-documented conceptual model.…
Descriptors: Probability, Multiple Choice Tests, Surveys, Teaching Methods
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Izquierdo, Jesús; Aquino Zúñiga, Silvia Patricia; García Martínez, Verónica – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
In many countries, English as a foreign/second language (L2) teaching has become compulsory in urban and rural public schools. In rural areas, the challenges for the implementation of this state-sanctioned policy have been explored among L2 teaching specialists. However, this mixed-methods study considered a different teacher group and examined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Davis, Ashley; Mirick, Rebecca G. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
In March 2020, the federal government declared a national emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In accordance with public health guidelines, social work programs rapidly decided whether students could continue, modify, or suspend their field placements. The current study (N = 1,522) describes these events from the perspective of Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Public Health, Guidelines
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