Teaching Environmental Education through PBL: Evaluation of a Teaching Intervention Program

Vasconcelos, Clara

doi:10.1007/s11165-010-9192-3

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“…Students are actively involved and learn within the context in which knowledge is to be used (Chin & Chia, 2004). The role of the teacher is to facilitate this process of problemsolving (Bache & Hayton, 2012;Chin & Chia, 2004, Vasconcelos, 2012, for example, by monitoring discussion and intervening when appropriate, asking questions that probe accuracy, relevance, and depth of information and analyses, raising new issues for consideration, and fostering students participation (Allen, Donham, & Bernhardt, 2011, p. 23). This methodology is included in the Inquiry-Based Teaching perspective, which constitutes a dynamic process, in which learning is a process of continuous thinking that involves flexibility and judgment.…”

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Problem-Based Learning And Nature of Science: A Study With Science Teachers

Moutinho

Torres

Fernandes

et al. 2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Problem-Based Learning, a methodology that builds on problems to develop students' new knowledge, can also be useful in helping students to learn Nature of Science. Prospective science teachers' conceptions regarding Nature of Science and its teaching through Problem-Based Learning were analyzed by applying a semi-structured interview. Nine respondents recognized that this methodology promote research activities and contribute to the learning of some aspects of scientific inquiry. Moreover, they specifically considered that Problem-Based Learning may foster the understanding of the tentative nature of scientific knowledge and of the role of creativity implicit in scientific endeavor. Authors consider that more attention should be given to the contemporary Nature of Science views and to its consistent teaching through this methodology.

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Section: Problem Based Learning As An Inquiry Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Problem-Based Learning And Nature of Science: A Study With Science Teachers

Moutinho

Torres

Fernandes

et al. 2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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“…Such a pedagogical approach is consistent with socio-constructivist theory and with problem-based learning (PBL) which uses "student-centred methods based on the principle of using problems as the starting point for the acquisition of new knowledge" (Lambros, 2004, in Vasconcelos, 2012.…”

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Challenging students' perceptions of sustainability using an Earth Systems Science approach

Clark

Zeegers

2015

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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This study investigated whether an Earth Systems-based course focused on raising postgraduate students' awareness of sustainability, from a systems-thinking perspective, would produce graduates with commitment to drive the sustainability agenda forward with a broad perspective. It investigated students' pre and postcourse perceptions of sustainability using a pre-and post-course survey, and by analysing the students' reflective journal entries. The findings confirmed those of previous studies in that initially these students did have an enviro-centric view. The study showed that while the students' perceptions had indeed moved towards a broader view of sustainability, many still leaned towards an environmentally focused perspective.

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“…Burden (2008Burden ( , 2010interviewed several award-winning teachers in higher education, and observed that they all attached great importance to SET, but only a few teachers considered that educational evaluation was helpful for them to improve their teaching quality. (c) Combining algorithms with SET: in the literature, (Vasconcelos, 2012) puts forward the key rule mining method based on data mining technology to find the meaningful association between data, and gives the framework of teaching evaluation data mining system. In order to study more scientifically and accurately, a study results generalized ordered logistic regression analyses show that male students express a bias in favour of male professors (Boring, 2017).…”

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An Empirical Study on Student Evaluations of Teaching Based on Data Mining

Zhang

Qin

Jin

et al. 2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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Under the influence of big data, many fields have undergone tremendous changes. In the field of education, the data still contains a wealth of practical value, but the data mining and knowledge discovery is not enough, especially in the application of student evaluations of teaching (SET). In study, the K-means algorithm is used to cluster the data of three main teaching evaluation indexes (TEI) including individual background, course content, teaching method into high satisfaction degree (HSD), middle satisfaction degree (MSD), and low satisfaction degree (LSD). The logistic regression results showed that gender was a significant factor in students' evaluation of teachers and that there were potential connections between teaching evaluation and teachers' gender, age, and teaching content. In addition, the research shows that the effect of satisfaction degree on students' academic achievement is limited. The findings from this empirical study present a better understanding of reform of SET in higher education.

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Teaching Environmental Education through PBL: Evaluation of a Teaching Intervention Program

Cited by 42 publications

References 31 publications

Problem-Based Learning And Nature of Science: A Study With Science Teachers

Problem-Based Learning And Nature of Science: A Study With Science Teachers

Challenging students' perceptions of sustainability using an Earth Systems Science approach

An Empirical Study on Student Evaluations of Teaching Based on Data Mining

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