The little college that could: Washington College boosted its students' success by embracing an active learning curriculum and building its research program

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Miller
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Students Success ◽  
Washington College

Active Learning, Mentoring, and Mobile Technology

2015 ◽  
pp. 760-778
Author(s):  
Dianna L. Newman ◽  
Jessica M. Lamendola ◽  
Meghan Morris Deyoe ◽  
Kenneth A. Connor
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Stem Careers ◽  
Transfer Of Skills ◽  
Authentic Environment ◽  
Students Success

Educators are creating authentic settings that utilize active learning, mobile technology, and mentoring in efforts to promote students' success in developing 21st Century skills, motivation, and interest in STEM domains and STEM careers. Each of these approaches has been found to promote and transfer knowledge, as well as to develop problem-solving and communication skills in STEM. Little information, however, is available about the interactive effect of mobile technology and active learning in promoting learning in settings that use a hierarchical model of mentoring to promote the transfer of skills and knowledge. This chapter presents findings of a program that used mobile technology in active learning environments for five interrelated levels of an active, authentic environment, facilitated by mobile technology and hierarchical mentoring. Positive outcomes were documented at each level of participation; use of the mobile technology integrated within active learning settings supported by hierarchical mentoring increased learning in STEM content, skills, and affect.

Active Learning, Mentoring, and Mobile Technology

2015 ◽  
pp. 116-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna L. Newman ◽  
Jessica M. Lamendola ◽  
Meghan Morris Deyoe ◽  
Kenneth A. Connor
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Stem Careers ◽  
Transfer Of Skills ◽  
Authentic Environment ◽  
Students Success

Educators are creating authentic settings that utilize active learning, mobile technology, and mentoring in efforts to promote students' success in developing 21st Century skills, motivation, and interest in STEM domains and STEM careers. Each of these approaches has been found to promote and transfer knowledge, as well as to develop problem-solving and communication skills in STEM. Little information, however, is available about the interactive effect of mobile technology and active learning in promoting learning in settings that use a hierarchical model of mentoring to promote the transfer of skills and knowledge. This chapter presents findings of a program that used mobile technology in active learning environments for five interrelated levels of an active, authentic environment, facilitated by mobile technology and hierarchical mentoring. Positive outcomes were documented at each level of participation; use of the mobile technology integrated within active learning settings supported by hierarchical mentoring increased learning in STEM content, skills, and affect.

Impact of Active Learning on Mathematical Achievement: an Empirical Study in Saudi Arabia Primary Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Alharbi Awatif Abdullah ◽  
Cuihong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Order Problem ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Classroom Techniques ◽  
Higher Order Problem ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Students Success

The research focuses on scientific instructional approaches which take into consideration the impact of such factors as influence and motivation and thus can help provide guidance on practical classroom techniques that can help in fortifying the students’ success in mathematics. The paper investigates ways to achieve better math results among students by stimulating their motivation using active learning paradigm. The study aims to explore the methods of active learning applied in primary school math classes. Our results appear to add to the literature supporting the supposition that active learning has a direct effect on the students’ success and consequently, their achievement. We provide empirical evidence for factors predicting higher math learning achievement, and accordingly, propose an improved student-centered active learning teaching method to help students develop higher-order problem-solving skills, comprising of a combination of previously verified strategies which help to foster a positive attitude towards mathematics.

Tinkering with cognitive gadgets: Cultural evolutionary psychology meets active inference

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Benjamin Badcock ◽  
Axel Constant ◽  
Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Active Inference ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Cognitive Faculties ◽  
Cultural Evolutionary ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Cognitive Gadgets offers a new, convincing perspective on the origins of our distinctive cognitive faculties, coupled with a clear, innovative research program. Although we broadly endorse Heyes’ ideas, we raise some concerns about her characterisation of evolutionary psychology and the relationship between biology and culture, before discussing the potential fruits of examining cognitive gadgets through the lens of active inference.

Outcomes assessment of a predoctoral research program

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 836-839
Author(s):  
S Rosen ◽  
KE Alley ◽  
FM Beck
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Outcomes Assessment

Communication Sciences and Disorders PhD Graduates' Perceptions of Their PhD Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-478
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Crais ◽  
Melody Harrison Savage
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Career Expectations ◽  
Doctoral Preparation ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Phd Education ◽  
Doctor Of Philosophy ◽  
First Time ◽  
Students Success ◽  
Phd Program

Purpose The shortage of doctor of philosophy (PhD)–level applicants to fill academic and research positions in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) programs calls for a detailed examination of current CSD PhD educational practices and the generation of creative solutions. The intended purposes of the article are to encourage CSD faculty to examine their own PhD program practices and consider the perspectives of recent CSD PhD graduates in determining the need for possible modifications. Method The article describes the results of a survey of 240 CSD PhD graduates and their perceptions of the challenges and facilitators to completing a PhD degree; the quality of their preparation in research, teaching, and job readiness; and ways to improve PhD education. Results Two primary themes emerged from the data highlighting the need for “matchmaking.” The first time point of needed matchmaking is prior to entry among students, mentors, and expectations as well as between aspects of the program that can lead to students' success and graduation. The second important matchmaking need is between the actual PhD preparation and the realities of the graduates' career expectations, and those placed on graduates by their employers. Conclusions Within both themes, graduate's perspectives and suggestions to help guide future doctoral preparation are highlighted. The graduates' recommendations could be used by CSD PhD program faculty to enhance the quality of their program and the likelihood of student success and completion. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.11991480

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