Teaching statistics is a critical and challenging issue especially to students from multidisciplinary and diverse postgraduate backgrounds. Postgraduate research students require statistics not only for the design of experiments; but also for data analysis. Students often perceive statistics as a complex and technical subject; thus, they leave data analysis to the last moment. The lecture needs...

Teachers’ teaching methods are important as they have been shown to determine the students’ mathematics performance at secondary schools. However, it is evident that a significant number of students cannot continue Grade 11, and there simultaneous decline in student enrolment science-related degrees university level Papua New Guinea (PNG). That being case, this study aims examine employed by te...

background: failure in reaching the predetermined goals of education can be considered as one of the most important problems of educational systems. today, it is believed that active teaching methods are more effective than lecturing which lead to effective teaching. participation of students in education is one of the major factors of active learning. the purpose of the present study is to det...

This study explores four-year elementary education students’ understanding of how children learn mathematics through the use of concept maps. Thirteen Canadian and 9 students from Lebanon participated in the study. Over a two-week period students were asked to reflect on how children learn mathematics. The Lebanese students were prone to produce conceptual structures that were more teacher-cent...

This paper reports on the incremental improvement of assessment, learning and teaching activities in a large, first-year, undergraduate course. The changes, made over three years, resulted in the implementation of a student-centered (though individual) assessment strategy that included students in developing and applying the assessment criteria themselves. The outcome was a student-centered cou...

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Science teachers from secondary schools in Tanzania were offered an in-service arrangement to prepare them for the integration of technology in a studentcentered approach to science teaching. The in-service arrangement consisted of workshops in which educative curriculum materials were used to prepare teachers for student-centered education and for the use and application of Microcomputer Based...