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Mustu, Özlem Eryilmaz; Özkan, Emin Berk – Online Submission, 2017
Students try to understand many abstract concepts by using mental models they have created by thinking and imagining. Students must have a functional and dynamic atomic model in their minds in order to understand the atomic and atomic concepts. In this study; it was aimed to determine the models of science student candidates using the analogy of…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Undergraduate Students
Mehrmohammadi, Mahmoud – Online Submission, 2011
What is a viable theoretical scheme that can guide school curriculum deliberations, maintaining both a global and a local quality OR which curriculum theory has the power of being adopted universally and the versatility of being adapted locally? Can the notion of "Glocal" coined in the field of sociology (2010) be regarded as a meaningful and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Global Approach, Knowledge Representation
Oosterhof, Albert – Online Submission, 2012
Declarative knowledge involves being able to state and explain characteristics, terminologies, properties, phenomena, concepts, principles, and techniques. Chi and Ohlsson (2005) characterize it as the dominant form of knowledge, maintaining that it does not involve isolated units but rather is organized as semantic networks, theories, schemas, or…
Descriptors: Science Education, Grade 7, Cognitive Ability, Schemata (Cognition)
Casas-Garcia, Luis M.; Luengo-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Godinho-Lopes, Vitor – Online Submission, 2011
We present a new software, called Goluca (Godinho, Luengo, and Casas, 2007), based on the technique of Pathfinder Associative Networks (Schvaneveldt, 1989), which produces graphical representations of the cognitive structure of individuals in a given field knowledge. In this case, we studied the strategies used by teachers and its relationship…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Knowledge Representation, Computer Software, Mental Computation
Hall, Barbara M. – Online Submission, 2011
Threaded discussions represent conversational turn-taking in asynchronous, online learning environments. Given the crucial role that discussions play in the construction of knowledge within an online course, the quality of the interaction that occurs within threaded discussions is important to achieving the learning objectives of the designed…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication
Dag, Funda; Erkan, Kadir – Online Submission, 2007
In this work is proposed that an adaptation tool that is for the automatic generation and personalization of courses of a general-purpose LCMS that is named A Tutor. A Tutor is a Learning Content Management System. The architecture of the adaptation tool that allows a personalized sequencing of LOs in A Tutor for the learner's learning goals,…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Sequential Learning, Concept Mapping