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Memnun, Dilek Sezgin; Sevindik, Fatma; Beklen, Canan; Dinç, Emre – World Journal of Education, 2019
This study aimed to analyze the abstraction process of twelve-grade students' continuity knowledge through the RBC+C abstraction model. With this aim, a semi-constructed interview was conducted with two twelfth-grade students and recorded with a video camera. Two different research problems were addressed in the interview, and the students were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 12, Cognitive Processes, Abstract Reasoning
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Sumbera, Becky – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2017
This three-phase, two-method qualitative study explored and identified policies, programs, and practices that school-site administrators perceived as most effective in reengaging at-risk students emotionally, behaviorally, and cognitively at 10 California Model Continuation High Schools (MCHS). Eccles' expectancy-value theoretical framework was…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, High School Students, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students
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Homer, Bruce D.; Plass, Jan L. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
The influence of prior knowledge and cognitive development on the effectiveness of iconic representations in science visualizations was examined. Middle and high school students (N = 186) were given narrated visualizations of two chemistry topics: Kinetic Molecular Theory (Day 1) and Ideal Gas Laws (Day 2). For half of the visualizations, iconic…
Descriptors: Age, Prior Learning, Mechanics (Physics), Cognitive Development