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Bussey, Thomas J.; Orgill, MaryKay; Crippen, Kent J. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
Instructors are constantly baffled by the fact that two students who are sitting in the same class, who have access to the same materials, can come to understand a particular chemistry concept differently. Variation theory offers a theoretical framework from which to explore possible variations in experience and the resulting differences in…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Instruction, Prior Learning, Learning Theories
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LeCroy, Craig Winston – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
This article addresses efforts to build social work research in a manner consistent with good science and research. A critical perspective is applied to examine what does not work in building knowledge and how social work research can address factors that limit knowledge building. A critical perspective is imperative to social work knowledge…
Descriptors: Social Work, Grants, Criticism, Critical Thinking
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Kress, Tricia M. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
Critical theory and critical research are undeniably useful for revealing oppressive social structures and challenging the status quo in the realm of grand theory; yet, they are also useful for creating knowledge structures when academics deploy them on the ground. This article explores how critical theory and critical research can be used to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, High School Students, Research, Social Influences
National High School Center, 2011
The National High School Center's goal is to encourage researchers, policymakers, and practitioners at all levels to engage in comprehensive, systemic efforts to maximize attainment for all high school students, with a focus on those students who have been historically underserved. To this end, it has developed a framework that consists of eight…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Improvement, Cognitive Structures, Curriculum Development
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McMahon, Mary; Watson, Mark – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2007
Since its first publication more than 15 years ago, the Systems Theory Framework (STF) has become an established metatheoretical framework in the international career development literature. Ten years into its history, the first review of its development was published. The present article overviews the expansion of the STF literature since that…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Social Theories, Cognitive Structures, Theory Practice Relationship
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Happs, John C.; Stead, Keith – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1989
Considered are two commonly used techniques, the interview and word association techniques. Highlighted is a third technique called the repertory grid. This third technique can be used to interpret students' knowledge based on an explicit, psychological theory of human behavior. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Evaluation Methods, Interviews
Koplowitz, Herb – 1979
The world presented to our senses is essentially continuous in space and time. The simplest observations of children have shown that we are not born with ways of "breaking up" the world. The structures of our knowledge must be developed, and the major issue this paper considers is how those structures develop. The discussion focuses on Jean…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Epistemology
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Astley, W. Graham – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
Administrative scientists superimpose analytic frameworks on their observations when trying to make knowledge meaningful. The generation of knowledge should be seen as an essentially interpretive and subjective activity. An awareness of this fact may encourage a view of scientific progress that is reinforced by the social context in which research…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Cognitive Structures, Knowledge Level
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Hills, George L. C. – Science Education, 1989
Explores how some of the work in the history and philosophy of science might develop a more adequate understanding of students' untutored ideas. Describes how students' views can be interpreted. Explains and discusses the merits of commonsense-scientific theory analogy. (YP)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
von Glasersfeld, Ernst – 1989
Like any apparently novel approach to the basic epistemological problems of "knowledge," the constructivist ideas that have spread in the last 20 years continue to generate a host of negative as well as a few positive reactions. This document focuses on some aspects of Radical Constructivism, as distinct from "trivial"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Gutierrez, Angel; And Others – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1991
Presented is an alternative method for analyzing the van Hiele level of students' geometrical reasoning. The accuracy of students' answers may afford a description of acquisition and/or expertise for each of the van Hiele levels simultaneously rather than the traditional assignment and evaluation of one level at a time. (JJK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Furuness, Linda B.; Cohen, Michael R. – 1990
Science education has often struggled to determine effective teaching methodologies and learning strategies. One promising field of research has been that of alternative frameworks. The research described in this paper describes how immersion in an unfamiliar environment and culture affected teacher learning, some of the significant experiences…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Structures, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
Burstein, Leigh; Hawkings, John – 1986
A review and conceptual analysis of the literature on the characteristics of students in Japan and of the factors influencing those characteristics was conducted. Information from both English and Japanese sources about cognitive, non-cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of students and factors influencing them was sought regarding students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Area Studies, Cognitive Structures
von Glasersfeld, Ernst – 1988
This paper analyzes Bogdanov's theory of knowledge as found in philosophical dialogues and essays. The style of Bogdanov's writing and his ideas on philosophy, science, scientific constructs, truth, human knowledge, objectivity and ethics are discussed. These ideas are compared to the constructivist view of knowledge. (CW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Science, Educational Philosophy
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Williams, Steven R. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1991
A study documented 10 college students' understanding of the limit concept and the factors affecting changes in that understanding. Encouragement by the researchers for the students to change their common informal models of limit to more formal conceptions were met with extreme resistance. (Author/JJK)
Descriptors: Calculus, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, College Mathematics
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