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Cem Gerçek – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
The purpose of education is to actualise meaningful learning. Therefore, researching the issues on how students process information and how they configure it is important for meaningful learning. The issue of protein synthesis contains a number of abstract topics and concepts. Hence, it is important in biology teaching to be informed of students'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Biochemistry
Rus, Vasile; Lintean, Mihai; Azevedo, Roger – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
This paper presents several methods to automatically detecting students' mental models in MetaTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that teaches students self-regulatory processes during learning of complex science topics. In particular, we focus on detecting students' mental models based on student-generated paragraphs during prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Prior Learning, Cognitive Structures, College Students
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Gerwin, David – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
A "Motivation" eliciting the "Aim" of each lesson initiates each lesson in the orthodox "developmental lesson-plan" that has dominated classroom instruction in NYC public schools for at least the past half-century. An action-research study of 38 lesson-plans (over 5 each from 5 teachers) drawn from student-teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans