What Types of Instructional Shifts Do Students Experience? Investigating Active Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Classes across Key Transition Points from Middle School to the University Level

Frontiers in Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Akiha, Kenneth ^a   Brigham, Emilie ^a   Couch, Brian A ^b   Lewin, Justin ^a   Stains, Marilyne ^c   Stetzer, MacKenzie R ^a,d   Vinson, Erin L ^a   Smith, Michelle K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; classroom observation; educational transitions; secondary education; undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85070274654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2504284X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00068     Document Type: Article

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