Nurse educators, under pressure to prepare graduates who are able to think critically and
solve problems in a variety of clinical practice settings, require active teaching strategies to …

Recent changes in nurse education have led to a desire in nurse educators to promote
meaningful learning rather than rote learning of facts A major metacognitive learning …

While student stress and anxiety are frequently cited as having negative effects on students'
academic performance, the role that instructors can play in mitigating these challenges is …

This paper describes two metacognitive tools, concept mapping and Vee diagramming, and
reports on research utilizing these tools from grades one through university instruction. The …

The study of concept mapping as a research topic evolved from work conducted at Cornell
University under the auspices of Novak (Novak and Gowin, 1984). Most recently reported is …

This study investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping used as a learning strategy
with students in English as a Second Language classrooms. Seventy-nine ESL students …

The results of recent studies into the use of the concept mapping heuristic seem to
demonstrate that meaningful learning results through its use in science classrooms. While …

The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between chemistry laboratory anxiety,
chemistry attitudes, and self-efficacy. Participants were 395 university students. Participants …

The complex nature of climate change science poses special challenges for educators.
Learners come to the classroom with prior knowledge on the topic, which serves as a …

Background: South Korea has recently started to implement a STEM-like approach in K-12
education, titled STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), to train …