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Lima, Marcos – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2021
This book is a compilation of tools, techniques and frameworks for use in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation (E&I) education. Developed and honed over the past two decades, these teaching approaches are combined with well-versed practical insight. As professors know all too well, the human brain cannot articulate more than three or…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Structures
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Shen, Zixing; Tan, Songxin; Siau, Keng – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
Mental models and cognitive maps have been used in college business education as an instructional design technique, assessment tool, and learning strategy. The authors propose a novel use of mental models and cognitive maps as a device to elicit students' challenges in learning the domain knowledge of a course. Such usage is illustrated in a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Cognitive Mapping, College Students
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Balabanoff, Morgan E.; Al Fulaiti, Haiyan; Bhusal, Shikshya; Harrold, Archer; Moon, Alena C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Light is used ubiquitously across science and engineering to explore, characterise, understand matter, and catalyse processes. Relative to its utility in science and engineering, very little research has been conducted on how students develop an understanding of light-matter interactions, especially at the quantum level, which is necessary to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Light, Student Attitudes
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DeCocq, Victoria; Bhattacharyya, Gautam – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
We report our qualitative study of twenty-four students enrolled in the second-semester of a second-year undergraduate (sophomore-level) organic chemistry course, Organic Two. We asked the research participants to propose the product and electron-pushing mechanism of elementary mechanistic steps in the absence and presence of the corresponding…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Teaching Methods
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Ramazanoglu, Mehmet – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This paper focuses on revealing and modeling the cognitive constructs of pre-service teachers regarding the characteristics of a good IT academician. The research was carried out via the exploratory sequential design with the participation of 42 volunteer pre-service teachers enrolled in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technology. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Information Technology, Cognitive Structures
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Arslan, A. Saglam; Durikan, U. – Science Education International, 2016
The aim of the present study is to determine pre-service teachers' mental models related to basic astronomy concepts. The study was conducted using a survey method with 293 pre-service teachers from 4 different departments; physics education, science education, primary teacher education and early childhood education. An achievement test with…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Structures, Models, Visualization
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Hardof-Jaffe, Sharon; Aladjem, Ruthi – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
A personal space of information (PSI) refers to the collection of digital information items created, saved and organized, on digital devices. PSIs play a central and significant role in learning processes. This study explores the mental models and perceptions of PSIs by learners, using drawing analysis. Sixty-three graduate students were asked to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
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Arslan, Ali Riza; Dazkir, Sibel Seda – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
We explored how beginning-level interior architecture students develop skills to create mental visualizations of three-dimensional objects and environments, how they develop their technical drawing skills, and whether or not physical and computer generated models aid this design process. We used interviews and observations to collect data. The…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Visualization, Spatial Ability, Drafting
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Moutinho, Sara; Moura, Rui; Vasconcelos, Clara – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Model-Based learning is a methodology that facilitates students' construction of scientific knowledge, which, sometimes, includes restructuring their mental models. Taking into consideration students' learning process, its aim is to promote a deeper understanding of phenomena's dynamics through the manipulation of models. Our aim was to ascertain…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Visualization, Teaching Methods
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Srivastava, Anveshna – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
When students build physical models from prefabricated components to learn about model systems, there is an implicit trade-off between the physical degrees of freedom in building the model and the intensity of instructor supervision needed. Models that are too flexible, permitting multiple possible constructions require greater supervision to…
Descriptors: Models, Biology, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Structures
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Stains, Marilyne; Sevian, Hannah – Research in Science Education, 2015
Students' mental models of diffusion in a gas phase solution were studied through the use of the Structure and Motion of Matter (SAMM) survey. This survey permits identification of categories of ways students think about the structure of the gaseous solute and solvent, the origin of motion of gas particles, and trajectories of solute particles in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level
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Haynes, Chayla – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
An investigation of the literature revealed that racial consciousness and the behaviors of White faculty in the classroom appeared linked. A conceptual framework, Racial Consciousness and Its Influence on the Behaviors of White Faculty in the Classroom, was subsequently developed and tested in this constructivist grounded theory study. Findings…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Racial Bias
Leone, Lucian Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Community colleges in the United States are faced with several challenges, one of which is increasing the percentage of students that earn an associate degree. Research (American Association of Community Colleges, 2012; Amey, 2005; Eddy, 2010; Roueche, 2008) suggests that community college administrators need to think, act, manage, and lead in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Cognitive Structures, Models
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Darabi, Aubteen; Arrastia-Lloyd, Meagan C.; Nelson, David W.; Liang, Xinya; Farrell, Jennifer – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
In order to develop an expert-like mental model of complex systems, causal reasoning is essential. This study examines the differences between forward and backward instructional strategies in terms of efficiency, students' learning and progression of their mental models of the electronic transport chain in an undergraduate metabolism course…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Undergraduate Students
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Okur-Berberoglu, Emel – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Environmental awareness is evaluated related to cognitive and affective areas so it might be considered one of the important points in order to predict environmental behavioural change. One of the behavioural change models is ecological dynamics model (EDM) and this model's characteristics overlap with ecopedagogy-based outdoor experiential…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning, Environmental Education, Behavior Change
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