Idea generation in biomedical engineering courses using Design Heuristics     

Jin Woo Lee  Anastasia Ostrowski  Aileen Huang-Saad  Colleen M. Seifert 《European Journal of Engineering Education》2019,44(3):360-378

ABSTRACT

With increasing demand for improved medical equipment and healthcare, next-generation biomedical engineers need strong design skills. Equipping biomedical engineering students with tools for idea generation and development can increase student design success. Design Heuristics are an ideation tool developed through empirical studies of product designs. While identified in the mechanical engineering space, Design Heuristics may be applicable in biomedical engineering design. In our study, we implemented a Design Heuristics session during upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate biomedical engineering design courses. We examined the applicability of Design Heuristics within individual and team concept generation contexts. The findings demonstrated that biomedical engineering students were able to use Design Heuristics to generate multiple concepts, and that initial concepts produced using Design Heuristics were carried over into final team design. The results support the applicability of Design Heuristics to student idea generation in biomedical engineering design.  相似文献   

Show and tell those theories!     

Anastasia P. Samaras Ph.D. 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1994,22(1):21-23

Working with parents in cooperative nursery schools can be challenging as teacher and parents sort out their roles in implementing an appropriate curriculum. However, many of the problems that arise can be prevented by mutually sharing educational theories and how they promote young children's learning.  相似文献   

Enhancing self-regulation of practice: the influence of graphing and self-evaluative standards     

Anastasia Kitsantas  Barry J. Zimmerman 《Metacognition and Learning》2006,1(3):201-212

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of graphing of self-recorded outcomes and self-evaluative standards on the acquisition of a motoric skill with 70 college students. It was postulated that students who were provided with graduated self-evaluative standards would surpass those who were provided with absolute standards or no standards (control) in both motoric skill and in motivational beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy, attributions, and self-satisfaction). Regarding graphing of self-recorded outcomes, it was hypothesized that students who graphed their results visually would show higher dart skill and stronger motivational beliefs than participants who did not graph their results. Support was found for these hypotheses. The implications of findings of this study were discussed for instructors in terms of how the effects of self-directed practice can be enhanced.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Efklides  Anastasia 《Metacognition and Learning》2020,15(1):1-2

Metacognition and Learning -  相似文献   

PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT FOR PROBLEM UNDERGRADUATES: THE GREEK CASE     

Anastasia Rigas 《Higher Education in Europe》1992,17(4):76-86

Eminent researchers from different countries affirm, citing statistical data, that the incidence of serious family problems and familial bereavement create antisocial adolescents. Greek researchers in particular have concluded that the antisociability arid criminality of adolescents are directly related to the premature disturbances of the individual within his family. This article proposes a special educational programme for non‐violating adolescents having family‐related social and psychological problems. The programme will be housed in an Advisory Juvenile Centre in the vicinity of the University of Athens. It will offer students the possibility of “points of contact” and of personal (socio‐psychological) support in order to help them overcome difficulties presented by their surroundings (society, families, or schools) and hence their social behaviour.  相似文献   

Developing a pedagogy for teaching self-study research: Lessons learned across the Atlantic     

Mieke Lunenberg  Anastasia P. Samaras 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2011,27(5):841-850

This article reports on a collective self-study from our multiple and unique experiences of teaching self-study research in the Netherlands and the United States. Through the methodology of dialog, we merged what we learned from our individual studies which resulted in six guidelines for a pedagogy for teaching self-study research. Without claiming that the six guidelines have full applicability to all teaching contexts, we offer instead a discussion of the complexities and value of framing a pedagogy of self-study research. This study provides a conceptual, theoretical, and practical base for further studies to build a knowledge base on this topic.  相似文献   

Children's self‐regulated learning profile in language and mathematics: The role of task value beliefs     

Panayiota Metallidou  Anastasia Vlachou 《Psychology in the schools》2010,47(8):776-788

This study explored the self‐regulated learning (SRL) profile of upper elementary (fifth and sixth grade) school children who were differentiated in their task value beliefs (low and high) in language and mathematics. Students' SRL profile involved their teachers' ratings of achievement outcomes and SRL behaviors. The subscale of task value beliefs from the Motivational Self‐Regulated Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) was administered to the children, and their teachers completed a battery of scales and measurements concerning students' achievement and SRL behaviors. The results confirm previous evidence indicating that SRL involves high levels of motivation, metacognition, and strategic action. Furthermore, the results support the domain‐specific character of task value beliefs. Differences in teachers' evaluations about the achievement outcomes and SRL behaviors regarding the two groups of students (low and high in task value beliefs) were found significant mostly in the domain of mathematics. Students with high value beliefs in mathematics were described as more cognitively, metacognitively, and motivationally competent learners as compared to students with lower value beliefs. The results suggest that future intervention studies should focus on strengthening task value beliefs in “threatening” school subjects, such as mathematics, from the elementary school years. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

The perceived impact of playing music while studying: age and cultural differences     

Anastasia Kotsopoulou 《Educational studies》2010,36(4):431-440

Rating scale questionnaires were administered to 600 students in three age groups, 12–13, 15–16 and 20–21 from Japan, the UK, Greece and the USA. The questionnaires explored the extent of playing music while studying, the kinds of tasks when music was played, the perceived effects of music on studying, the characteristics and types of music played while studying and the factors that influenced the decision to play music while studying. Statistical analysis revealed both commonality and differences in playing music while studying related to both age and culture. Some tasks were more frequently accompanied by music than others. Students reported being able to make decisions about the impact of background music on their performance. The results are discussed in relation to their educational implications.  相似文献   

Teacher perspectives on partnerships on families of children with autism     

Sarah Westerfield Brooks  Rachel Schwartz  Miguel Ampuero  Anastasia Kokina 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2023,23(2):79-89

The success of students with disabilities in school and community largely relies on productive family professional partnerships (FPPs). The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) recognises the importance of family collaboration to student success by mandating that parents be involved in the Individualised Education Plan (IEP) process as full team members. While several previous studies examined the perspectives of parents of children with disabilities on partnerships with educators, less research exists on teacher perspectives on family professional collaborations. Additionally, there are even fewer studies that focus on teacher perspectives on partnerships with parents of children with autism, a disability category which continues to increase in prevalence. The present study contributes to the literature by examining teacher perspectives on factors that build and hinder positive partnerships with families of children with autism. Researchers surveyed 25 Special Education teachers and conducted additional individual interviews and open-ended questionnaires to examine teachers' first-hand experiences. Findings identified four common themes that educators felt helped and hindered collaborative relationships with families. Study results may lead to the development of specific family professional collaboration strategies that can be implemented and discussed in school districts, teacher trainings, pre-service teacher education programs and family workshops.  相似文献   

Inclusive pedagogies in digital post-Covid-19 higher education     

Anastasia Liasidou 《British Journal of Special Education》2023,50(1):6-27

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only led to medical conundrums and uncharted scientific territories but has also engendered new educational challenges and opportunities that need to be considered in order to reconceptualise, recalibrate and reconfigure higher education in terms of its inclusive foundations and orientations. While current research has highlighted the role of digital teaching methodologies in creating the ‘new normal’ in higher education in the post-Covid-19 era, the ‘new normal’ must be concomitantly envisaged in terms of the role of higher education in fostering more inclusive e-learning spaces. This article discusses the ways in which the tenets of an inclusive pedagogical discourse can be conceptualized and enacted in virtual learning environments in terms of teaching methodologies, learner-centred content delivery and formative assessment implementation. The pedagogical triptych should be underpinned by an inclusive and equity-based ‘cyberculture’ that constitutes a sine qua non element in developing all students' sense of belonging and learning in higher education.  相似文献