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Monika Parchomiuk; Katarzyna Cwirynkalo; Agnieszka Zyta – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: The perception and experience of death with respect to individuals with intellectual disability are almost unexplored in the Polish context. We aimed to understand how these persons conceptualise death, understand their experiences associated with it, and the meanings they ascribe to it. Method: The study was designed and conducted…
Descriptors: Death, Comprehension, Intellectual Disability, Concept Formation
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Heesoo Ha; Jongchan Park; Ying-Chih Chen – Research in Science Education, 2024
Sensemaking is conceptualized as a trajectory to develop better understanding and is advocated as one of the fundamental practices in science education. However, the field is lacking of a framework to view the prolonged process of sensemaking that starts from a raise of uncertainty of a target phenomenon to a grasping of a better understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Vaunam P. Venkadasalam; Nicole E. Larsen; Patricia A. Ganea – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Evaluating evidence and restructuring beliefs based on anomalous evidence are fundamental aspects of scientific reasoning. These skills can be challenging for both children and adults, especially in domains where they possess inaccurate prior beliefs that can interfere with the acquisition of correct scientific information (e.g., heavier objects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Concept Formation, Cognitive Development
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Diana Villabona; Asuman Oktaç; Solange Roa-Fuentes – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
We offer a new angle to explain the comprehension of mathematical infinity. We use Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS) theory to explore the construction of different aspects of the cognitive Object related to this notion. We focus our attention on different ways of interacting with infinity, and how to act on infinite entities. Our aim is to shed…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Sarah N. Abdo; Jeremy L. Hsu; Constantine Kapetanakis; Dina L. Newman; L. Kate Wright; Jennifer Bailey – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Effective spatial visualization and reasoning skills are often credited for students' success in science and engineering courses. However, students enrolled in these science courses are not always exposed to or trained properly on the best ways to utilize models to aid in their learning. Improving spatial visualization techniques with 3D models,…
Descriptors: Models, Visual Aids, Concept Formation, Molecular Structure
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Ziqian Wei; Yishan Zhang; Roy B. Clariana; Xuqian Chen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Learning from multiple documents is an essential ability in today's society. This experimental study used concept network analysis to consider how reading prompts and post-reading generative learning tasks can alter students' documents integration performance. Undergraduates (N = 119) read three documents about Alzheimer's disease with one of two…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Prompting, Network Analysis
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Konstantina Dogani; Evangelia Papadopoulou – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Teaching music often focuses on developing musical concepts, through comparisons and discriminations. This paper contributes to the discussion on concept development in music through recognition of common elements in a situation and a shift from a local to a general level, considering theoretical approaches to mathematical generalisation. It sets…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Preschool Children, Concept Formation
Marissa Renee Bamberger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Belief in psychological misconceptions, especially those regarding brain function and learning (i.e., neuromyths), hinders students' decision-making and learning. This necessitates conceptual change. Using an experimental design, this dissertation examined whether a utility value instructional induction (UVII) facilitated conceptual change.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Misconceptions, Persuasive Discourse, Educational Practices
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Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study attempted to examine the impacts of conceptual and perceptual primes on the word recognition and sentence comprehension of beginner, intermediate and advanced EFL learners. Consequently, 246 EFL learners were recruited for study and categorized into three English proficiency levels. The needed data was collected via Lexical Decision…
Descriptors: Priming, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Vahide Yigit-Gençten; Mehmet Gultekin; Filiz Aydemir – Curriculum Journal, 2024
This paper examines underlying beliefs and values about nature within the early years education in Turkey, as reflected in the curricula and standards documents guiding instruction. Given that not every child has the opportunity for nature-based education, it becomes essential to incorporate nature-based learning into indoor classrooms. Employing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Kimberly A. Shapiro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Postmodern picturebooks do not follow the established norms of traditional picturebooks and instead invite readers to navigate nonlinear structures and attend to metafictive devices, including counterpoint and multiple narratives, experimental typography, nonlinearity, intertextuality, and ambiguities in meaning. These qualities challenge readers…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Picture Books, Literacy Education, Learning Modalities
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Amanda Folk; Katie Blocksidge; Jane Hammons; Hanna Primeau – Journal of Information Literacy, 2024
Within the past decade, there has been a shift in how our guiding professional documents conceptualise information literacy (IL) - evolving from a skills-based conceptualisation to one emphasising ways of thinking and knowing. This has been both productive and disruptive. Our professional documentation does not provide a framework for making this…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Concept Formation, Faculty Development
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Samuel Kenney; Forster D. Ntow – SAGE Open, 2024
This article uses the concurrent mixed methods design to explore the errors made by 171 Grade Seven learners in algebraic problem-solving within the Assin Central Municipality in Ghana. The participants were categorized into low-achieving and high-achieving groups based on their performance in a pretest, to help provide a detailed examination of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Low Achievement
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Magdalena Pando – Language and Education, 2024
This is a qualitative case study framed by a sociosemiotic theoretical framework to explore science and language instruction with three Emergent Bilinguals (EBs) in sixth grade. The study details the modeling and explanatory processes used by EBs to mediate science learning through evidence-based argumentation. A thematic analysis of students'…
Descriptors: Science Education, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education, Persuasive Discourse
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Rio Satria Nugroho; Radityo Widiatmojo – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
This research discusses the close relationship between visual literacy, the ability to read, understand, and create visual texts -- and elementary school books, particularly children's picture books. It aims to explore the visual literacy parameters in English elementary textbooks published by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. In…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction