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Mindset Gap among SES Groups: The Case of Chile with Census Data
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Claro, Susana; Paunesku, David – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Students' academic motivation and their achievement is affected by the mindset that students hold about their own intelligence. The current study presents a unique nationally-representative dataset to study the relationship of Mindset and Achievement among different populations. With census data of Chilean 10th graders and their schools, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Census Figures, Grade 10
High School Students' Informal Reasoning Regarding a Socio-Scientific Issue, with Relation to Scientific Epistemological Beliefs and Cognitive Structures
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Wu, Ying-Tien; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This study investigated the relationship among 68 high school students' scientific epistemological beliefs (SEBs), cognitive structures regarding nuclear power usage, and their informal reasoning regarding this issue. Moreover, the ability of students' SEBs as well as their cognitive structures for predicting their informal reasoning regarding…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Nuclear Energy, Cognitive Processes, High School Students
An Application of Conceptual Change Approaches to Cultural Issues among High School Students
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Fardanesh, Hashem – Online Submission, 2006
Conceptual change as the foundation of meaningful learning is discussed and applied to the change in the context of cultural issues among high school students. Cultural issues are envisioned as the repertory of internal cognitive structure of individuals that shapes the foundations of their attitudinal and behavioural functioning. Each one of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, High School Students, Models, Questionnaires
Fears of Children in the United States: An Examination of the American Fear Survey Schedule with 20 New Contemporary Fear Items
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Burnham, Joy J. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2005
Twenty contemporary fears (e.g., terrorist attacks, drive-by shootings, having to fight in a war) were added to E. Gullone and N. J. King's (1992) Australian Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II for use in the United States. The revised survey, the American Fear Survey Schedule for Children (J. J. Burnham, 1995), was investigated. The component…
Descriptors: Fear, Security (Psychology), Student Surveys, Research Methodology
Probing High School Physics Students' Views and Concerns about Learning Activities
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Langley, Dorothy; Eylon, Bat-Sheva – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2006
The current study is framed within an ongoing effort of probing students' attitudes and expectations about knowing and learning physics, which has driven several investigations during the past decade. The questionnaire we developed focuses on physics students' views regarding a variety of specific learning activities, which are presented by title…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence of Students' Cognitive Processes in Three Dimensions of Content, Complexity, and Time
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von Aufschnaiter, Claudia; von Aufschnaiter, Stefan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
In the literature, learners' cognitive development is mainly discussed with respect to changes in learners' content-dependent knowledge (conceptual change or growth). Additional dimensions of time and complexity may also be taken into account to describe cognitive processes in at least three dimensions. We discuss these three dimensions of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures