This article reviews the core process of critical thinking – hunting assumptions – and explains how this process differs according to the context of what is being taught and the different intellectual traditions that inform teachers’ own backgrounds. It outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative...

The pervasiveness of online information services has led to substantial changes in higher education including changes in faculty members’ teaching methods and students’ study habits. This article presents the results of a survey about media use for teaching and learning conducted at a large Canadian university and highlights trends in the use of new and traditional media across university Facul...

We use different criteria to judge teaching methods and learning environments as researchers and teachers. As researchers, we tend to rely on learning gains measured in controlled conditions. As teacher, the skilled management of classroom constraints results in the impression that a specific design “works well”. We describe fourteen design factors related to the metaphors of classroom orchestr...

Facing the problem of more content, less course time, fear emotions of students, A complete reform from the teaching contents, teaching means, teaching methods and other aspects which is closely around the target of the talented cultivation "Emphasize on theoretical basis are taken, strengthen engineering application" of motor learning courses. Practice has proved that these measures had mobili...

We estimate the impact of peer gender composition on student achievement, exploiting the random assignment of Korean middle school students to single-sex schools, coeducational schools with single-sex classes, and coeducational schools with mixed-gender classes. Male students attending coeducational schools with single-sex classes perform worse than boys in mixed-gender classes, while those ass...

Interpretation of symbols, as well as understanding the particulate nature of matter and spatial structures, are essential skills students need for solving problems in chemistry. However, model perception and understanding the spatial structure of organic molecules has been a source of difficulty for many chemistry students. The research objective was to investigate the effect of using virtual ...

We collected data at a large, very selective public university on what math and science instructors felt was the biggest barrier to their students’ learning. We also determined the extent of each instructor’s use of research-based effective teaching methods. Instructors using fewer effective methods were more likely to say the greatest barrier to student learning was the internal deficiencies o...

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required. Source URL: https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/node/55395 Links [1] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/anton-bogdanovych [2] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/staff/marc-esteva [3] https://www.iiia.csic.es/en/sta...

The 1980s witnessed the widespread introduction of microcomputer technology into educational institutions and the workplace. Microcomputer software training has achieved mixed results due to both training methods and individual factors, such as computer anxiety. The present research addresses the topic of software training by presenting the results of two studies. The first study validates a me...

Two methods for teaching drug calculation were compared—one using traditional formulabased teaching methods, the other building on students’ existing mathematical problemsolving skills. On the basis of quantitative measures, the formula-based approach appeared more effective. However, students’ interview responses revealed that the learning experiences of the two student groups were quite diffe...