‘Context‐based courses’ are increasingly used in an address to the major challenges that
science education currently faces: lack of clear purpose, content overload, incoherent learning …

Four guidelines for teaching quantitative problem‐solving are presented, based on research
results. These guidelines are interrelated: for instruction with proper orientation, exercise …

Most of us who are scientists have enjoyed climbing this ladder as part of our education. We
revel in the lofty view from the top. Unfortunately, many students do not see the connection …

Asian countries with Confucian heritage culture (CHC) such as China, Vietnam, Singapore,
Korea and Japan have been proven to share characteristics of a collectivist society. …

This article is concerned with the influence of western educational approaches in non‐western
countries and societies. This influence is frequently referred to as educational …

This study was aimed at finding effective ways of organising peer assessment of written
assignments in the context of teaching history at university level. To discover features yielding …

Peer assessment is understood to be an arrangement with students assessing the quality of
their fellow students’ writings and giving feedback to each other. This multiple‐case study of …

The nature of written and oral peer feedback will be described as it occurred in seven writing
courses, each with a different design of peer assessment. In all courses, peer feedback was …

Introduction Nowadays, one of the most important questions in teaching and learning involves
increasing the degree of students’ engagement in learning. According to Astin’s Theory of …

This article aims to explain differences between a group learning English on a Facebook
page and a face-to-face group in terms of Self-Determination Theory (SDT). SDT focuses on …