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Esdal, Lars; Welch, Addie; Kemper, Sara; Potter, Laura – Education Evolving, 2023
Student surveys are critical to student-centered learning. They help paint a holistic picture of student experiences--and inform school improvement in areas like engagement, climate, and culture. Minnesota has given a statewide youth survey since 1989. While it has provided some key insights over the years, it would be even more valuable if it was…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Equal Education, Student Centered Learning
Kristen Bonser – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With teacher attrition on the rise and an educational landscape filled with mounting instructional demands and postpandemic challenges, the need for informal teacher leaders has never been greater. Informal teacher leaders, while still in the classroom themselves, are in a unique position to model, coach, collaborate, and advocate for colleagues.…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, School Culture, Teacher Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics
Argo, Tim – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student engagement is an important component in the classroom to enhance student outcomes. Student engagement helps a teacher not only with classroom management, but with the understanding of content by the student. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore teachers' experiences of student-centered classrooms. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Learner Engagement, Teacher Competencies, Professional Autonomy
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Stern, Julian; Kohn, Eli – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
The contrast between student-centred and knowledge-centred teaching is explored through a qualitative case study exploration of the pedagogies (Bruner's 'folk pedagogies') of six teachers of Jewish studies. These teachers, based in orthodox Jewish schools in the UK and Australia, discussed their roles as teachers in the context of their…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Judaism, Religious Education, Teaching Methods
Carlos R. Moreno – ASCD, 2023
In "Finding Your Leadership Soul," Carlos Moreno shares his journey from a challenging childhood in the Bronx, to teaching and advising at an innovative high school, to serving as co-executive director for Big Picture Learning, an organization that works to advance equitable, student-centered education. Along the way, he introduces…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Administration, Administrators, Leadership Styles
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Pan, Ai-Jou; Chou, Pao-Nan; Lai, Chin-Feng – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This study systematically developed an educational learning framework titled "Real-world problem-posing strategy with engineering problem-solving" to facilitate engineering college students' learning. This study evaluated the effect of the developed learning framework on engineering college students' engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Solving, College Students, Learning Motivation
Christine Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
STEM education and integrative STEM education are increasingly popular in the K-12 domain. However, there is not a consensus on their definitions, nor a sufficient amount of instructional support to help teachers that are unfamiliar with these learning approaches. This study examined how an intentionally designed experiential professional…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
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Lloyd P. Rieber – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
Q pedagogy is a teaching approach that values the subjective viewpoints of students and incorporates them into the design of instruction. Q pedagogy is an instructional adaption of Q methodology, a research methodology first developed in the 1930s by Dr. William Stephenson to study people's subjectivity. Q methodology uses a special data…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Student Centered Learning, Q Methodology
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Megan Powell Cuzzolino; Tina A. Grotzer; Jingyi Xu – Review of Research in Education, 2023
In this review, we use the metaphor of a "fast fish" to illustrate the importance of contextualized agency, which assumes that learners must (a) be centrally agentive in their own learning; (b) be able to act on and modify the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional contexts of their learning to support their best performance; and (c)…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Educational Principles, Feedback (Response), Transfer of Training
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Maurizio Costabile; David Birbeck; Claire Aitchison – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
This paper explores the effective development and use of interactive simulations as a learning tool, integrating didactic and active approaches with complex laboratory and lecture content in undergraduate biochemistry and immunology courses. University science courses require students to master vast quantities of foundational knowledge that is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biochemistry, STEM Education, Computer Simulation
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Vaisarova, Julie; Reynolds, Arthur J. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Although research suggests that the use of child-initiated vs. teacher-directed instructional practices in early childhood education has implications for learning and development, the precise nature of these effects remains unclear. Using data from the Midwest Child-Parent Center (CPC) Expansion Project, the present study examined the possibility…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Student Centered Learning
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Grewal, Yugjeet S.; Reynoso, Raul Fernando; Reyes, Ruben; Walkup, John R.; Walkup, Michael A. – Physics Teacher, 2022
Using a Geiger-Müller tube, sound-capturing software, and a simple computer program, students measured to reasonable precision the half-value layer of steel in absorbing high-energy gamma rays from a Radium Ore Revigator (pronounced re-vig-a-tor with the accent on "vig"), an early quack medical device. This article describes the process…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Radiation, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Research
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Stanford, Morgan; DeCicco, Tracey; Cox, Heather; Bergantz, Letitia – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
At Athens State University, every student is a transfer student. As an institution that enrolls mostly non-traditional students, faculty and instructional designers understand the importance of accommodating the unique instructional needs of each student in order for them to have a seamless transition into the environment of an upper-level…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, State Universities, Nontraditional Students, Student Centered Learning
April Townsend – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Writing is a fundamental skill needed for academic success and is considered a lifelong tool. Most students in the United States, however, do not meet grade-level proficiency in writing. Since 2015, the fourth-grade writing performance has not exceeded 50% proficient at the study site. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Centered Learning
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Fielding, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
The fourth article we are highlighting from the extensive "FORUM" archive introduces Michael Fielding's critique of practice and policy for school effectiveness, first published in 2000. In it, Fielding describes the disillusionment with New Labour education policies before setting out a well-made argument for the person-centred school…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, School Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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