Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

Learning involves not only the acquisition of new knowledge by learners but also the integration into the knowledge community and the construction of meaning through social interaction (Chen et al., ...

Although critical thinking has a long history in research, the concept of critical thinking, which is regarded as an essential competence for learners in the 21st century, has recently attracted more ...

A cross-sectional quantitative research design was used, and data were collected from a state university in southeastern Türkiye. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the structural ...

Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

Collaborative learning is essential to advance in organizational training and professional development. Employees must continuously engage with changing information and solve new problems, requiring ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

Why struggle through setting and assessing group tasks when this teaching approach can present considerable challenges around communication and conflict? These insights offer ways to design tasks that ...

The gifted group. The slow group. The behavioral issues group. Grouping in schools fell out of favor partially because educators—and parents—felt like kids were getting labeled and that groupings didn ...

A teaching approach that requires students to work together in groups to solve problems, complete tasks, or develop project solutions (with clear connections to problem-based learning). It fosters a ...