Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)

This study investigates how the prior knowledge of the students can be used to develop an effective teaching and learning strategy. First - year university science students come from a variety of teaching and learning cultures with a wide range of academic abilities. Moreover many studies have shown...

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Main Authors: Siddiqui, Salim, Yeo, Shelley, Zadnik, Marjan
Other Authors: Frank Sheehy
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12951
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author Siddiqui, Salim
Yeo, Shelley
Zadnik, Marjan
author2 Frank Sheehy
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Siddiqui, Salim
Yeo, Shelley
Zadnik, Marjan
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description This study investigates how the prior knowledge of the students can be used to develop an effective teaching and learning strategy. First - year university science students come from a variety of teaching and learning cultures with a wide range of academic abilities. Moreover many studies have shown that science students hold a variety of alternative conceptions that are hard to change. These combining factors pose a daunting challenge for the instructor to teach such a group of varying abilities and mixed conceptions. A traditional mode of teaching in many cases is not suitable and may result in a high drop out rate. Before embarking on a full teaching program, it is therefore, useful to develop a teaching and learning strategy that is suitable for the whole class. In this paper we will discuss the outcome of two years of study for two different groups of students.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-129512017-02-28T01:34:21Z Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II) Siddiqui, Salim Yeo, Shelley Zadnik, Marjan Frank Sheehy mixed conceptions learning culture prior knowledge This study investigates how the prior knowledge of the students can be used to develop an effective teaching and learning strategy. First - year university science students come from a variety of teaching and learning cultures with a wide range of academic abilities. Moreover many studies have shown that science students hold a variety of alternative conceptions that are hard to change. These combining factors pose a daunting challenge for the instructor to teach such a group of varying abilities and mixed conceptions. A traditional mode of teaching in many cases is not suitable and may result in a high drop out rate. Before embarking on a full teaching program, it is therefore, useful to develop a teaching and learning strategy that is suitable for the whole class. In this paper we will discuss the outcome of two years of study for two different groups of students. 2002 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12951 Curtin University of Technology fulltext
spellingShingle mixed conceptions
learning culture
prior knowledge
Siddiqui, Salim
Yeo, Shelley
Zadnik, Marjan
Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)
title Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)
title_full Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)
title_fullStr Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)
title_full_unstemmed Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)
title_short Designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (II)
title_sort designing teaching strategy to enhance student learning (ii)
topic mixed conceptions
learning culture
prior knowledge
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12951