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Ordway Tead 《College Teaching》2013,61(3):148-154
ABSTRACTHow can we best support instructors to learn, practice, and retain student-centered, active-learning teaching strategies in their undergraduate courses? While approaches like professional development workshops may inspire some, permanent adoption of new pedagogy is rare. Here, we investigate “paired teaching” to achieve adoption and continued use of evidence-based practices. In this model, an instructor with little or no experience in student-centered teaching is paired with an experienced instructor in a semester-long course that has established student-centered pedagogy. This study evaluates information from eight pairs of instructors over a three-year period. Data was collected before, during, and after the paired teaching semester through interviews, written reflections, and teaching observations. Results indicate that paired teaching is beneficial as a professional development model for new instructors who have little teaching experience. The teaching practice of these instructors evolved to be increasingly student-centered, and they continued to use this pedagogy in subsequent classes. More established instructors who were less familiar with active learning showed lower tendencies to incorporate new pedagogies into their existing classes. We suggest best practices to maximize benefits and mitigate challenges associated with paired teaching. 相似文献
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Gabriel K. Harris Sanja Cvitkusic Amanda S. Draut Chelani S. Hathorn Amanda M. Stephens Karen E. Constanza Michael J. Leonardelli Ruth H. Watkins Lisa O. Dean Nathaniel G. Hentz 《Journal of Food Science Education》2012,11(2):23-27
Abstract: Food science laboratory courses are traditionally taught as a series of preplanned laboratories with known endpoints. In contrast, inquiry‐guided (IG) laboratories allow students to ask questions, think through problems, design experiments, then adapt and learn in response to unexpected results. This study examined the effects of converting the course, “Analytical Techniques in Food and Bioprocessing Sciences” from a traditional approach (2008 to 2010 data) to an IG approach (2011 data) by assigning teams of 2–3 students a food and a set of 5 analyses to conduct over the course of the semester. Students were required to choose and justify the use of specific methods for each analysis, as well as to develop a supply list and a budget for the semester‐long project. During the semester, students were required to post and discuss their weekly progress with the instructor, teaching assistants, and the rest of the class using an online discussion forum. At the end of the semester, students were required to present the results of their analysis in both oral and written formats. Overall course grades were significantly higher (P≤ 0.05) using IG in 2011 compared to 2010 and 2009, but not to 2008 grades. Numerical course evaluations for the instructor, overall course, and lab, as well as written course evaluations all significantly (P≤ 0.05) improved. This suggests that an IG approach may measurably improve student performance in terms of course grades and the ability to complete semester long projects. It may also increase student satisfaction with the course, as measured by numerical and written end of semester surveys. 相似文献
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The flipped classroom is gaining acceptance in higher education as an alternative to more traditional methods of teaching. In the current study, twelve students in a Norwegian higher education institution were in-depth interviewed about their learning experiences in a two-semester long mathematics course. The first semester was taught using flipped classroom and the second semester using lectures, where both teaching modes contained a substantial amount of active learning. Overall, students report a more positive learning experience and higher engagement in the flipped classroom. The analysis revealed seven categories that the students highlight as especially conducive to their learning; commitment to peers, being recognized, feeling safe, instructor relationship, physical learning environment, learning with peers and using videos to learn new content. The results indicate that the affective dimension of student engagement is particularly prominent when students reflect upon learning in the flipped classroom. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate students’ perceptions of clickers as an instructional tool to promote active learning in a Physical Geography undergraduate class. A convenience sample of 24 undergraduate students registered in a physical geography course was assigned clickers to answer chapter quizzes in class for 15 weeks during the semester. Data from student interviews, student surveys, and exam grades were used to analyze the findings. Overall, students were satisfied and gave high approval ratings for the use of clickers, particularly for enhancing their participation and engagement in class lectures. The study findings show that clickers promote student engagement in the teaching and learning process. However, students did not find clickers to be a motivating factor to study more for the course. The implications for the use of clickers as instructional tools to improve active teaching and learning in technology-rich classrooms are also discussed. 相似文献
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This study investigated differences in student perceptions and performance among three distance learning sites taking the same off-campus M.B.A. course with the same instructor, The sites varied in class size and instructor location. Two classes (one large and one small) were linked using a two-way video system with rotating origination. The third class was small and was taught in person each week. Data were collected over an entire semester. Class size influenced performance more than location of instructor. Performance in the two smaller classes was better than performance in the large class. Student characteristics and site variables accounted for over 50% of variance in performance. One interaction effect was found. Students with initial low perceived value did best when the instructor was physically present each week. For students with high initial perceived value, location of instructor did not matter. 相似文献
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胡红玲 《赣南师范学院学报》2013,(1):108-111
英语阅读教学改革试验的目标在于改变传统的阅读授课形式,找到有效培养大学生英语自学能力的途径。大学英语阅读试验分两期进行,第一期将课外阅读欣赏与课内分享、评价结合,通过调查问卷获得有关数据,得出相关的结论,用于指导第二期试验,以达到预期的试验效果;第二期将课外阅读与写作结合,引导学生欣赏美文美句,通过仿写、批改等方式提高书面表达能力,并以阅读大赛的形式获得相关数据以检测试验效果。 相似文献
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Roger Bruning Kamau O. Siwatu Xiongyi Liu Lisa M. PytlikZillig Christy Horn Stephanie Sic Deborah Carlson 《Contemporary educational psychology》2008,33(2):299-326
Two studies were conducted in multisection introductory child and adolescent development classes to determine effects of introducing abbreviated teaching case studies that were then discussed either in face-to-face or online formats. Students receiving teaching case studies in either format in both classes showed improved ability to critically analyze probe and final cases compared to control participants. Both case study groups in the child development class also showed increased application of psychological concepts in analyzing new cases. No differences in course knowledge were expected as a function of condition and none were found. Hypothesized case-related increases in efficacy for teaching also were not observed. Results were interpreted as supporting a case analysis approach in educational psychology classes and use of online methods for presentation and discussion of abbreviated cases. 相似文献
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Veronica Cahyadi 《高等教育研究与发展》2004,23(4):455-464
This study investigates the effect of a teaching method consisting of peer instruction, worksheets utilization, constructivist classroom dialogue and in‐class demonstration. These teaching elements are intended to promote the interactive engagement of first year undergraduate students in an introductory physics course. The conceptual understanding of students in the experimental classes was better than that of students in the control classes which received traditional lecturing. The students in the experimental classes expressed positive responses towards the activities conducted to involve them actively in the learning process. It is also revealed that students still possess a traditional paradigm of teaching–learning. Several suggestions are presented to improve the implementation of this teaching method. 相似文献
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Kathleen K. Molnar 《Education and Information Technologies》2017,22(6):2741-2765
There is a lack of consensus of the effects on student perceptions and performance in flipping the classroom and its possible value over the traditional face-to-face (FTF) classroom approach. This research examines the expectation that flipping an undergraduate, introductory level, information concepts and skills class would benefit student learning and evaluates the results of flipping this type of course. The study showed a significant difference in student perceptions about the course itself between web-enhanced, FTF and hybrid, flipped classrooms, but this may be dependent upon the level of technology integration rather than the approach. In addition, students who were required to work in groups on a weekly basis had more positive responses toward the flipped classroom improving their soft skills than those who did not. Finally, for written content exams it seems the flipped class approach is at least as effective as the traditional classroom in terms of grades. However, it appears teaching software skills may be better with at least some direct instruction over just the use of simulation software. 相似文献
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《The Internet and Higher Education》2010,13(4):188-196
With social networking sites playing an increasingly important role in today's society, educators are exploring how they can be used as a teaching and learning tool. This article reports the findings of a qualitative case study about the integration of Ning into a blended course. The study draws on the perspectives of the students, the instructor and an outside observer to explore the intended and unintended outcomes of Ning use. As intended by the instructor, the site effectively served as an information repository and the blogs and discussion forums promoted reflection and review of each other's work. Unintended outcomes included community building and modeling, both of which are types of vicarious interaction that fall into the category of pedagogical lurking. 相似文献
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钮佳安 《安徽广播电视大学学报》2015,(3):80-83
选择安徽电大开放教育2013秋季学期护理学本科专业A班26人为对照班,在护理伦理学教学中采用讲授和案例分析为主的传统教学方法;2013秋季学期B班29人为实验班,采用案例讨论法进行教学。采用形成性考核、期末终结性考核、问卷调查等方法对教学效果进行评价。结果显示,实验班学生面授课到课率较对照班高34.1％;实验班学生的形成性考核作业案例分析成绩和期末终结性考核案例分析成绩显著高于对照班（P ＜0.01）;绝大多数学生认为案例讨论教学法能提升学习主动性、自主学习能力、学习态度、课堂学习效率、沟通能力、语言表达能力、参与意识、对护理伦理问题的敏感性以及分析和解决问题的能力;学习效果满意度达84.0％。 相似文献
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案例教学和多媒体教学在法学课程中的应用 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
通过分析法学课程案例教学和多媒体教学的特点以及目前多媒体教学中存在的一些问题，认为传统的课堂讲授的方式仍是法学课程教学的主导，同时应适当地运用多媒体教学手段来增加教学容量，并结合精选、精编案例进行案例分析的课堂讨论，以达到预期的教学效果。 相似文献
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Eulsun Seung 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2013,11(6):1303-1326
This study explored the process of physics teaching assistants’ (TAs) PCK development in the context of teaching a new undergraduate introductory physics course. Matter and Interactions (M&I) has recently adopted a new introductory physics course that focuses on the application of a small number of fundamental physical principles to the atomic and molecular nature of matter. The purpose of this study is to describe how the PCK of physics TAs in the M&I course was developed and enacted. Data collection began during the TA preparation workshop that was held before the semester and continued during the recitation and laboratory classes that the TAs taught during the semester. Through a qualitative, multiple case study research design, data were collected from multiple sources: non-participant observations, digitally recorded video, semi-structured interviews, TAs’ written reflections, and researchers’ field notes. Data analysis consisted of cross-case and within-case analyses. Data were analyzed using a constant comparative method. After data analysis, 2 main themes emerged related to the development of TA’s PCK: (a) TAs’ PCK developed from propositional knowledge to personal practical knowledge and (b) the process of knowledge development consisted of 3 phases: accepting, actualizing, and internalizing. The results of this study will not only contribute to the quest to identify the nature of professional knowledge of science teaching but also help guide preparation for innovative introductory physics courses and other college level science courses in the future. 相似文献
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《Teaching and Teacher Education》1997,13(8):783-797
Is there value in having students analyze a dilemma-based case more than once, for example, both before and after a unit of instruction? Or, if students will only analyze a case once, when should that analysis occur—as a performance measure following instruction or before a unit of instruction to provide a narrative anchor for understanding? To address these questions, sixty-seven undergraduate preservice teachers during two separate investigations worked in pairs to analyze a case before and after units of instruction in an undergraduate Educational Psychology class. In students' pre and post written analysis of the case they used the same situational context (case) to embed different theoretical concepts, and identified more concepts and analyzed the case in more depth in their second analyses. Furthermore, using a case as an anchor for understanding in the beginning of a unit produced more learning than using a case as a performance measure at the end of a unit. Students' reflections on changes in their analyses showed that case analysis affected knowledge: Repeated discussion of complex cases containing classroom dilemmas enabled preservice teachers to find new problems, rethink ideas, consider others' viewpoints and embed theoretical concepts from the perspective of the most recently completed area of study. As a result of this study, we argue that repeated analysis of a case is a viable pedagogical approach and that cases can serve as an “anchor” for subsequent instruction. 相似文献
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Efi Paparistodemou Despina Potari Demetra Pitta-Pantazi 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2014,86(1):1-18
This study investigates early childhood prospective teachers’ attention to geometrical tasks while designing and using them in the classroom. This is explored in the context of the teaching practice of 11 prospective teachers who taught geometry in early childhood classrooms during the last semester of their university studies. The teaching practice was organized into four stages: design of a lesson plan; classroom implementation; discussion of the lesson with the school practice instructor; and self-assessment report and revision of the lesson. Analysis of data using the Teaching Triad framework (Jaworski, 1994) shows that although the prospective teachers attended to issues of mathematical challenge, sensitivity to students, and management of learning in their planning, in their actual teaching and after class reflection, their attention was focused mainly on management issues. The findings also show that prospective teachers’ attention on geometrical tasks can be developed through a process of reflection on their teaching. 相似文献
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An online discussion facilitates students’ higher order thinking in online classes, especially when adopted with the instructor’s guidance. The current experimental study examined the effects of two different discussion representation tools (social and cognitive diagrams) on students’ discussion behaviors. The social diagram emphasized interactivity of participants by illustrating who posted messages and who replied. The cognitive diagram described how discussion topic evolved by summarizing main topics discussed. Thirteen graduate students enrolled in an online graduate course participated in the study. While analyzing five instructional cases, students were asked to discuss each case in a group that the instructor assigned randomly. For each case, one group was provided with the social diagram whereas the other with the cognitive diagram. Major findings revealed both tools facilitated online discussion activities as the instructor intended: the social diagram turned out to promote socially desirable responses while the cognitive diagram produced more cognitively desirable responses. Further studies on how the two types of discussion diagrams can be integrated in online discussions will be needed. 相似文献
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Optical versus virtual: teaching assistant perceptions of the use of virtual microscopy in an undergraduate human anatomy course 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Many studies that evaluate the introduction of technology in the classroom focus on student performance and student evaluations. This study focuses on instructor evaluation of the introduction of virtual microscopy into an undergraduate anatomy class. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with graduate teaching assistants (TA) and analyzed through qualitative methods. This analysis showed that the teaching assistants found the virtual microscope to be an advantageous change in the classroom. They cite the ease of use of the virtual microscope, access to histology outside of designated laboratory time, and increasing student collaboration in class as the primary advantages. The teaching assistants also discuss principal areas where the use of the virtual microscope can be improved from a pedagogical standpoint, including requiring students to spend more time working on histology in class. 相似文献