Objectives of the research: This project aims to identify the most effective tools for increasing student engagement. Research methods: An ad hoc questionnaire to measure the engagement capacity of teaching tools, principal component analysis (PCA), and machine learning forward regression. Structure of the article: Introduction, methodology and res...
This study draws on media literacy to suggest pedagogical techniques that aim to combat boredom and enhance student engagement in freshman writing classes. Students often complain they cannot relate to course work; they maintain that course materials do not connect to their real lives and are therefore uninteresting. Because writing classes can ser...
In 2013, I added an extra credit assignment to my freshmen composition classes encouraging students to bring in news stories each class period; this assignment was designed to encourage students to be more willing to participate in classroom discussions. We then spent the first few minutes of each class discussing the stories they brought. After us...
Sodobni izobraževalni sistemi potrebujejo rešitve, ki se prilagajajo tehnološkemu napredku ter omogočajo večjo fleksibilnost in prilagodljivost pri učenju. Prehod na spletno izobraževanje med pandemijo COVID-19 je pokazal potencial digitalnih orodij za povečanje angažiranosti in sodelovanja študentov. Cilj tega projekta je razviti aplikacijo, ki iz...
This report presents an in-depth review of the main theoretical models and methods for measuring student engagement in the educational context. The first part describes and compares the theoretical approaches proposed by several scholars (Astin, Skinner, and Fredricks). The second part takes stock of all existing means of collecting empirical data ...
In a changing educational landscape, student engagement remains a prominent issue in research and practice. This study explores engagement from the student’s perspective across multiple disciplines, year levels and delivery modes. It draws on 13,125 Student Evaluation of Teaching survey comments where students have used the word “engage” (or deriva...
This study investigates the influence of library orientations on student engagement and academic success within higher education settings. Using a mixed-methods approach involving surveys, interviews, and academic performance metrics, the research explores the correlation between participation in library orientations and students' familiarity with ...
Published in BMC Medical Education
Background Medical diagnostics is a pivotal bridge curriculum that receives much less attention from undergraduates in non-clinical medicine health profession programs with less student engagement and poor performance. Mind mapping is an active learning strategy for graphically presenting radiant thinking to culture clinical reasoning. The purpose ...
Published in BMC medical education
"Student engagement" (SE) is gaining momentum as an approach to improve the performance of health professions education (HPE). Nevertheless, despite the broad studies about the role of students in various areas, little is known about the role of SE in policy and decision-making activities. This study aimed to map SE in policy and decision-making re...
Published in Heliyon
This study rigorously examines Project-Based Learning's (PBL) efficacy in augmenting creative thinking within educational frameworks. It investigates PBL's alignment with psychological tenets and cognitive processes to bolster creative capacities. Employing an extensive literature review, the research scrutinizes PBL's psychological and educational...
