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Education Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 4

December 2017 - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,495 Views
9 Pages

20 December 2017

The student response system (a.k.a clickers) had been widely used in classrooms for various pedagogical purposes these years. However, few of the studies examine students learning approaches toward both technology and engagement. The present study ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
151 Citations
36,995 Views
22 Pages

20 December 2017

Amid growing concerns about the future of the U.S. economy and workforce, educators and policymakers alike have increasingly emphasized the need to expand the number of students interested in, qualified for and actually pursuing careers in science, t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,414 Views
17 Pages

19 December 2017

This paper aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge on Academic Advising Systems (AAS) and its impact on learning. It constitutes an overview of empirical evidence behind key objectives of the pot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,363 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2017

This study aimed to elevate the experiences and voices of teachers who led the STEM informal education program summer series: National Federation of the Blind Engineering Quotient (NFB EQ). Through its integration with science, technology, engineerin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,533 Views
10 Pages

7 December 2017

The present study reports the use of an interview task to identify the initial conceptions of engineering and teaching engineering held by secondary mathematics and science teachers upon entering a professional development program. Results obtained f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,308 Views
16 Pages

5 December 2017

Despite many millions of dollars being spent each year to support undergraduate research experiences for students in the sciences, there has been little in the way of solid evaluation of these experiences. Recently, research has surfaced that address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,821 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2017

Diagnostic competence is an important skill of professional teachers and is a part of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). Because increasing heterogeneity and diversity characterize our schools, diagnostic competence plays a prominent role in teache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,882 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2017

In this paper, a discussion is presented into how remote laboratories can be utilized in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in order to provide and promote access to laboratory experiments via the Internet. This provis...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,402 Views
11 Pages

21 November 2017

This paper reports on a mixed-methods study with high school students. The study focused on the reasons they give with regard to “what they find interesting about their physics lesson” and “what makes them want to study their physics lesson” during a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,866 Views
8 Pages

A Mixed Methods Study on the Effect of Flipping the Undergraduate Medical Classroom

  • Kelly W. Burak,
  • Maitreyi Raman,
  • Michael Paget,
  • Kevin Busche,
  • Sylvain Coderre and
  • Kevin McLaughlin

14 November 2017

The flipped classroom model is increasingly being adopted in healthcare education, despite the fact that recent systematic reviews in the nursing and medical education literature suggest that this method of instructional design is not inherently bett...

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Educ. Sci. - ISSN 2227-7102