International Journal of New Trends in Arts, Sports & Science Education

Yazarlar: Allen Scarboro

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Özet: This study served two goals. First, the production of a research question and carrying that question through conceptualization and operationalization to data gathering and analysis provided the central learning activity for a group  of more than 50 first year sociology students. As such, this project is an example of the active learning approach to teaching and learning. The students worked hard and enthusiastically and completed a complex task within the allotted time. I am proud of them and want to use this opportunity to acknowledge and thank them.  Second, this project explores several variables that my students and I thought might be related to students’ perception of settings and approaches that supported them as successful learners. While our findings cannot be generalized beyond the students of one university at one point in time, our data suggest that several factors seem important to students.  One cluster of factors centers around the way faculty act out their role: those faculty who themselves are active researchers, who assign heavy out of class homework, especially those who assign student research activities, and those faculty who are available for informal interaction with their students are seen as powerful contributors to student learning.

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