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Peer reviewedFrankel, Richard M. – Optometric Education, 1992
Optometry educators can be assisted in making complex concepts understandable to students by using rhetorical devices such as metaphors, similes, analogies, parables, and allegories. As an example, the difficulties in communicating everyday but complex clinical concepts regarding inflammatory disorders are discussed and use of rhetorical devices…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedStanley, William B.; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1987
Investigates the nature of social concept development in young children. A heterogeneous sample of 64 kindergarten and 65 first grade public school students completed an assessment task for both basic concepts and social concepts. Grades, sex, and racial group had significant impact on performance. Important differences in difficulty among social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Grade 1
Download full textBeins, Bernard C. – 1987
Students in a college introductory statistics class were evaluated with conceptual and computational tests and the relationship between their levels of knowledge on the two forms of testing was assessed. There were significant correlations between their abilities to perform computations and to answer more conceptual questions on individual tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, Comprehension, Computation
