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Astrid Berg; Magnus Hultén – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
The importance of introducing students to mechanistic reasoning (MR) early in their schooling is emphasised in research. The goal of this case study was to contribute with knowledge on how early primary students' (9-10 year-olds) MR in chemistry is expressed and developed in a classroom practice framed by model-based inquiry. The study focuses on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts
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Panorkou, Nicole; Germia, Erell – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
In this article, we address a call by Thompson and Carlson to directly contribute to defining the variation of students' reasoning about varying quantities. We show that students as young as in sixth grade can engage in complex forms of reasoning about multiple quantities in contexts that involve exploring science phenomena using interactive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills
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Resnick, Ilyse; Newcombe, Nora; Goldwater, Micah – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
There is strong evidence from research conducted in the United States that fraction magnitude understanding supports mathematics achievement. Unfortunately, there has been little research that examines if this relation is present across educational contexts with different approaches to teaching fractions. The current study compared fourth and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Mathematics Skills
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Zhong, Baichang; Xia, Liying; Su, Siyu – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
One of the aspects of programming that novices often struggle with is the understanding of abstract concepts, such as variables, loops, expressions, and especially Boolean operations. This paper aims to explore the effects of programming tools with different degrees of embodiment on learning Boolean operations in elementary school. To this end, 67…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Programming, Novices, Elementary Education
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Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.; Braden, Sarah K.; Young, Tamara G.; Gailey, Sara – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Research in undergraduate physics and in K-12 science education has demonstrated challenges and successes in facilitating student engagement with reasoning practices associated with professional physicists. Here we focus on one important dimension of physics reasoning, using evidence to revise models. While this topic has been explored at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
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Pittalis, Marios; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Christou, Constantinos – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
A theoretical model describing young students' (Grades 1-3) functional-thinking modes was formulated and validated empirically (n = 345), hypothesizing that young students' functional-thinking modes consist of recursive patterning, covariational thinking, correspondence-particular, and correspondence-general factors. Data analysis suggested that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Task Analysis, Profiles
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Flores, Margaret M.; Moore, Alexcia J.; Meyer, Jill M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
Elementary standards include multiplication of single-digit numbers and students advance to solve complex problems and demonstrate procedural fluency in algorithms. The ability to illustrate procedural fluency in algorithms is dependent on the development of understanding and reasoning in multiplication. Development of multiplicative reasoning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Teaching Methods
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Langbeheim, Elon; Ben-Eliyahu, Einat; Adadan, Emine; Akaygun, Sevil; Ramnarain, Umesh Dewnarain – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Learning progressions (LPs) are novel models for the development of assessments in science education, that often use a scale to categorize students' levels of reasoning. Pictorial representations are important in chemistry teaching and learning, and also in LPs, but the differences between pictorial and verbal items in chemistry LPs is unclear. In…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Trajectories, Chemistry, Thinking Skills
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Dickes, Amanda Catherine; Sengupta, Pratim; Farris, Amy Voss; Satabdi, Basu – Science Education, 2016
In this paper, we present a third-grade ecology learning environment that integrates two forms of modeling--embodied modeling and agent-based modeling (ABMs)--through the generation of mathematical representations that are common to both forms of modeling. The term "agent" in the context of ABMs indicates individual computational objects…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Education, Grade 3, Science Process Skills
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Cyr, Stéphane; Charland, Patrick; Riopel, Martin; Bruyère, Marie-Hélène – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2019
Serious video games (SVGs) are increasingly used as supplementary teaching tools for mathematics education. Several studies report their positive impact on student learning. However, these impacts are variable, and the success of the tools cannot be generalized or extended to all settings or disciplines without an in-depth look at the games…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, Design, Models
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Guncaga, Ján; Tkacik, Štefan; Žilková, Katarína – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
Misconceptions in geometry are an essential problem in the understanding of geometric terms by primary and pre-primary aged children. Present research shows some misconceptions in geometry demonstrated in the understanding of circles, squares, triangles and oblongs for children in the last year of kindergarten and pupils in the last year of…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Elementary School Students, Preschool Children, Teacher Education
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Baird, Thomas J.; Clark, Linda E. – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Professional development is an important part of creating a culture of continuous school improvement to maximize student learning. Rarely do we measure the impact of professional development on teacher learning, implementation and student outcomes. This study describes a professional development strategy for elementary teachers to promote…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Models, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Strategies
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Zangori, Laura; Forbes, Cory T.; Schwarz, Christina V. – Science & Education, 2015
Opportunities to generate model-based explanations are crucial for elementary students, yet are rarely foregrounded in elementary science learning environments despite evidence that early learners can reason from models when provided with scaffolding. We used a quasi-experimental research design to investigate the comparative impact of a scaffold…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Task Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document is the fourth volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 42 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Mul and Wu:…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Motion, Mathematics Teachers, Self Efficacy