The purpose of this national survey was to explain the relationships between professors’ contextual characteristics, teaching conceptualizations and motivation, and the use of learnercentered teaching (LCT) methods in colleges of environmental, agricultural, applied, and life sciences. Three hundred and twenty-nine professors from land-grant universities (1862 & 1890) and state colleges partici...

Approach Increase Student Achievement? teaching styles (teacher-centered instruction versus student-centered instruction) and examined whether teaching. I believe that student-centered learning arose in reaction to this scenario. Students who went It's a blend of both Teacher-and Student-centered approaches. Others argue that learner-centered is idealistic, unrealistic, and irresponsible. While...

BACKGROUND The most common teaching method used in China is lecturing, but recently, efforts have been widely undertaken to promote the transition from teacher-centered to student-centered education. The patient-oriented problem-solving (POPS) system is an innovative teaching-learning method that permits students to work in small groups to solve clinical problems, promotes self-learning, encour...

Large group teaching has always been the most popular way of teaching from past decades. It is one of the most convenient and economical ways to transfer knowledge from the content expert to the learner. Educationists have always raised concerns about active learning in this method. The use of variety of methods would be included in classroom teaching and active learning should be encouraged. T...

The Chinese-English bilingual teaching in the circuit course is an important approach to foster innovational talents for the electronic industry in the new century. In this article, we analyze the background, applicability and feasibility of bilingual teaching in the course of circuit and the difficulties facing in the process of implementation. We explore various approaches and methods to over...

Abstract One-on-one tutoring is the most effective teaching arrangement. Most schools and families, however, cannot afford to provide each child with a tutor. Peer in classrooms, more feasible scalable learning arrangement, increases for both tutors tutees, but peer tutors’ efficacy often limited by their didactic disempowering approaches. Two interventions distinctly different designs were dev...

Many graduate and professional programs include Problem Based Learning (PBL) as a mainstay in their curricula. For many undergraduate students, this is a change from a teacher-centered to a student-centered learning method. This study was undertaken to learn about perceptions and test performances of college students (N=116) enrolled in liberal education classes when PBL is used vs. traditional...