What Do Students Learn from Sociology?

Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?

Problem-based approaches to learning have a long history of advocating experience-based education. Psychological research and theory suggests that by having students learn through the experience of solving problems, they can learn both content and thinking strategies. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method in which students learn through facilitated problem solving. In PBL, stu...

What Do We Learn from Experimental Algorithmics?

Experimental Algorithmics is concerned with the design, implementation , tuning, debugging and performance analysis of computer programs for solving algorithmic problems. It provides methodologies and tools for designing, developing and experimentally analyzing eecient algorithmic codes and aims at integrating and reinforcing traditional theoretical approaches for the design and analysis of alg...

What do we learn from rating metaphors?

What makes some metaphors easier to understand than others? Theoretical accounts of metaphor processing appeal to dimensions like conventionality and aptness to explain variability in metaphor comprehensibility. In a typical experiment, one group of naive participants rates a set of metaphoric sentences along these dimensions, while another is timed reading the same sentences. Then, the ratings...

What do upper secondary students learn about evolution from an animation of antibiotic resistance ?

“what Do Visitors Know and What Do They Learn from an Exhibition about Paleoanthropology?”

The exhibition “Atapuerca: our ancestors” was presented at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid, Spain) during 1999-2000. The objective of this exhibition was to show the discoveries made at the paleoanthropological site of Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). In Atapuerca, one of the most important Pleistocene sites of the world, more than 3,000 human fossils dated around 300,000 years old h...