Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are used extensively as undergraduate science lab instructors at universities, yet they often have having minimal instructional training and little is known about effective training methods. This blind randomized control trial study assessed the impact of two training regimens on GTA teaching effectiveness. GTAs teaching undergraduate biology labs (n = 52) co...

Against the background of the central dilemma in teacher education of the relationship between theory and practice, this article reports a teacher education approach that strongly emphasizes the use of theory in learning to teach, assuming that teaching is also an intellectual activity. A main starting point is the subject pedagogy, the ‘Fachdidaktik’, in this case of Dutch language and literat...

One of the reasons that undergraduate students, particularly women and minorities, can become disenchanted with computer science education is because software development is wrongly characterized as a solitary activity. We conducted a collective case study in a software engineering course at North Carolina State University to ascertain the effects of a collaborative pedagogy intervention on stu...

Architecture education is unique because the architectural system project-based learning, where primary teaching and learning process occurs within studio. However, during endemic phase, architecture studios are conducted in a hybrid manner which for design faces many challenges.This includes exposing testing students' ability to combine knowledge from disciplines such as philosophy, art, socio...

This paper proposes a model of adaptation called Feijoo.net. Feijoo.net is a system which adapts contents and the presentation of these contents to the learning style of each student. In this model, contents are separated from their presentation on the Web. Feijoo.net is focused on university students. The main goal is to get an adaptation model of the learning of each student following the dir...