This paper evaluates the impact of a student-centered teaching pedagogy program by local education authority on cooperative behaviors 610 students in five middle schools. We measure changes students’ cooperation with lab-in-the-field experiments, implemented before and after program. Relying classroom-level fixed effect strategy, we show that has positive linear public goods experiment way reme...

Student-centered learning is generally defined as any instructional method that purportedly engages students in active learning and critical thinking. The student-centered method of teaching moves the focus from teaching to learning, from the teachers' conveying course concepts via lecture to the understanding of concepts by students. The student-centered method has been used extensively in lec...

Professional development (PD) workshops designed to help faculty move from teacherto learner-centered science courses for undergraduates are typically evaluated with self-reported surveys that address faculty’s satisfaction with a workshop, what they learned, and what they applied in the classroom. Professional development outcomes are seldom evaluated through analysis of observed teaching prac...

Children represent an important and ever-growing target group of the game industry but nevertheless up to now children are rarely involved in the development process. In this paper we aim to introduce childcentered game development (CCGD) approaches for user-centered design (UCD) for the context school building on suitable HCI and educational pedagogy approaches. The CCGD approaches illustrate ...

Educators in informal settings can be a key part of the learning experience, yet they are often poorly supported as professionals. This study followed the professional development of museum educators who participated in iterative implementation of a new school trip program focused on climate change. The learner-centered pedagogy, inquiry format, and controversial content of this program all pre...

Anjur SS. Student-centered physiology in high schools. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 161–167, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00076.2010.— Student test score percentages in the Physiology and Disease (PAD) course at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a high school for students of the state of Illinois gifted in math and science, were studied over a period of 5 yr. Inquiry-based laboratory experiences...

One of the important problems of cyber pedagogy is the following: how, knowing the parameters of the student, his initial level of knowledge and the impact of the teacher to predict knowledge of student at subsequent times. Simulation method allows you to create a computer program that simulates the behavior of the "teacher–student"– system and investigate the influence of system parameters on ...

The major purpose of this case study was to document the classroom management beliefs and practices of three teachers reputed to implement student-centered instruction and to examine the relationship between their instructional and managerial approaches. More specifically, do teachers who use student-centered instruction also implement studentcentered management? Results indicate that, although...

PURPOSE This study investigated characteristics of medical teachers who have adopted student-centered teaching methods into their teaching. METHODS A 24-item questionnaire consisted of respondent backgrounds, his or her use of student-centered teaching methods, and awareness of the school's educational objectives and curricular principles was administered of faculty members at a private medic...