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Emil Eidin; Tom Bielik; Israel Touitou; Jonathan Bowers; Cynthia McIntyre; Dan Damelin; Joseph Krajcik – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Understanding the world around us is a growing necessity for the whole public, as citizens are required to make informed decisions in their everyday lives about complex issues. Systems thinking (ST) is a promising approach for developing solutions to various problems that society faces and has been acknowledged as a crosscutting concept that…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, High School Students, Educational Technology
Rooney, Donna; Young, Kirsty – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
This paper addresses the question of why young Australians with intellectual disability (ID) remain underrepresented in open employment despite significant investment by various stakeholders. It uses the analogy of Whack-a-Mole (an arcade game) to draw attention to the complexity young people face during transition, and to illustrate how…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Employment
Wellmanns, Andrea; Schmiemann, Philipp – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
Feedback loop reasoning is an essential part of systems thinking, which includes the analysis and description of system behaviour and regulative measures. In feedback loops, every change can simultaneously represent a cause and an effect. Research on reasoning in feedback loops is limited to investigating students' existing mental models. This…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Science Instruction, Visual Aids, Physiology
Cox, Marjolein; Elen, Jan; Steegen, An – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2020
Several challenges faced by humanity, such as the world food problem, migration flows or climate change, are all taught about in geography courses worldwide. Behind these challenges are complex systems consisting of several interrelated causes and consequences. In order to better understand these highly complex geographical systems, a systems…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability
Nancy L. Deutsch; Victoria A. Mauer; Haley E. Johnson; Anita A. Grabowska; Miriam R. Arbeit – Grantee Submission, 2020
Adults play important roles in the lives of adolescents, serving as role models, sources of social support, and providers of social capital. Natural mentoring relationships (NMRs), relationships between adults and youth that rise to a level of significance for the youth, have a positive impact on youth outcomes in a number of academic,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Youth, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults
Yoon, Susan A.; Goh, Sao-Ee; Yang, Zhitong – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2019
Recent research on what students know about complex systems shows that they typically have challenges in understanding particular system ideas such as nonlinearity, complex causality, and decentralized control. Yet this research has yet to adopt a systematic approach to learning about complex systems in an ordered way in line with the Next…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Middle School Students, High School Students
Marjolein Cox; An Steegen; Jan Elen – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2018
To gain insight into complex sustainability problems and acknowledge complexity is essential and can be achieved by creating an overview of the entire system, including interaction between variables. Therefore, systems thinking is recognized as a vital cognitive skill required to grasp complex global problems. Nevertheless, the implementation of…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Thinking Skills, Systems Approach, Geography Instruction
Truby, William F. – Online Submission, 2016
This article provides information, questions, and answers about current approaches to dropping the dropout rate of our students. For example, our current model of education is based on the mass production or assembly line model promoted by Henry Ford back in early years of the 1900s (1900-1920). This model served both factory production and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Intervention
Rates, Christopher A.; Mulvey, Bridget K.; Feldon, David F. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
Components of complex systems apply across multiple subject areas, and teaching these components may help students build unifying conceptual links. Students, however, often have difficulty learning these components, and limited research exists to understand what types of interventions may best help improve understanding. We investigated 32 high…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Systems Approach, High School Students, Simulation
Weintrop, David; Beheshti, Elham; Horn, Michael; Orton, Kai; Jona, Kemi; Trouille, Laura; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
Science and mathematics are becoming computational endeavors. This fact is reflected in the recently released Next Generation Science Standards and the decision to include "computational thinking" as a core scientific practice. With this addition, and the increased presence of computation in mathematics and scientific contexts, a new…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Science, High School Students, Mathematics Education
Stamovlasis, Dimitrios – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2014
This paper addresses some methodological issues concerning traditional linear approaches and shows the need for a paradigm shift in education research towards the Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDS) framework. It presents a quantitative piece of research aiming to test the nonlinear dynamical hypothesis in education. It applies…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Systems Approach, Statistical Analysis, Science Achievement
Trout, Charlotte; Sinex, Scott A.; Ragan, Susan – Physics Teacher, 2011
Models are essential to the learning and doing of science, and systems thinking is key to appreciating many environmental issues. The National Science Education Standards include models and systems in their unifying concepts and processes standard, while the AAAS Benchmarks include them in their common themes chapter. Hyerle and Marzano argue for…
Descriptors: Physics, Models, Systems Approach, Computer Uses in Education
Lee, Chang-Hun – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The aim of this study is to identify an ecological prediction model of bullying behaviors. Based on an ecological systems theory, this study identifies significant factors influencing bullying behaviors at different levels of middle and high school. These levels include the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Bullying, Models, Parent Participation
Feinstein, Sheryl; Driving-Hawk, Christopher; Baartman, Jyl – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
The term resiliency is used to describe the "human capacity and ability to face, overcome, be strengthened by, and even be transformed by experiences of adversity." Native American culture provides a framework for fostering resiliency. The Lakota Sioux society identifies four core needs that foster resiliency and motivate individuals to reach…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, American Indians, Systems Approach, Adolescents
Mac Iver, Martha Abele – Education and Urban Society, 2007
This article presents a longitudinal case study of an urban high school as it transitioned from one comprehensive reform model to another over a 10-year period. The study is based on qualitative interview data and quantitative data on student outcomes. Despite evidence of improved student outcomes during this reform period, the school could not…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, High Schools, Case Studies