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Lauren A. Mason; Abigail Miller; Gregory Hughes; Holly A. Taylor – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
False alarming, or detecting an error when there is not one, is a pervasive problem across numerous industries. The present study investigated the role of elaboration, or additional information about non-error differences in complex visual displays, for mitigating false error responding. In Experiment 1, learners studied errors and non-error…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods, Visual Aids
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Alexia Micallef; Philip M. Newton – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Prior research suggests that the teaching of abstract concepts can be enhanced by the use of concrete examples, but there are few controlled studies. Objective: To replicate key findings from experiment one from Rawson et al. (2015). Method: Experiment participants studied definitions of abstract concepts from psychology, either with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Psychology, Concept Formation
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Smith, J. David; Jackson, Brooke N.; Adamczyk, Markie N.; Church, Barbara A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Categorization researchers have long debated the possibility of multiple category-learning systems. The need persists for paradigms that dissociate explicit-declarative category-learning processes (featuring verbalizable category rules) from implicit-procedural processes (featuring stimulus-response associations lying beneath declarative…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Perception, Learning Processes
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Caitlin R. Bowman; Dagmar Zeithamova – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
A major question for the study of learning and memory is how to tailor learning experiences to promote knowledge that generalizes to new situations. In two experiments, we used category learning as a representative domain to test two factors thought to influence the acquisition of conceptual knowledge: the number of training examples (set size)…
Descriptors: Classification, Learning Processes, Generalization, Recognition (Psychology)
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Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez; Mauricio Suárez – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), "Inference and Representation. A Study in Modelling Science," Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press). On the other, we have…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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George Kinnear – Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
Prompting learners to generate examples has been proposed as an effective way of developing understanding of a new concept. However, empirical support for this approach is lacking. This article presents two empirical studies on the use of example-generation tasks in an online course in introductory university mathematics. The first study compares…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Classification, Task Analysis, Mathematics Instruction
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Nadja Beeler; Esther Ziegler; Andreas Volz; Alexander A. Navarini; Manu Kapur – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Even though past research suggests that visual learning may benefit from conceptual knowledge, current interventions for medical image evaluation often focus on procedural knowledge, mainly by teaching classification algorithms. We compared the efficacy of pure procedural knowledge (three-point checklist for evaluating skin lesions) versus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Premedical Students, Undergraduate Students, Medicine
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Sakyiwaa Boateng; Sizwe J. C. Masuku – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Electricity and magnetism are fundamental areas of physics and are integral to science curricula at various educational levels. However, this area has been reported to contain several concepts that students find challenging, leading to perspectives that diverge from scientifically accepted views. This study examines the errors made by physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Ajao, Adeola; Fitzallen, Noleine; Chick, Helen; Oates, Greg – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
In this paper, the SOLO taxonomy is used to identify different levels of student understanding of the statistical concepts associated with sampling distribution. This study was part of a research project investigating students' conceptual understanding of concepts of hypothesis testing taught with the support of simulation learning activities. The…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Statistics Education, Learning Activities, Simulation
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Cock, Jade; Marras, Mirko; Giang, Christian; Käser, Tanja – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
Interactive simulations allow students to independently explore scientific phenomena and ideally infer the underlying principles through their exploration. Effectively using such environments is challenging for many students and therefore, adaptive guidance has the potential to improve student learning. Providing effective support is, however,…
Descriptors: Prediction, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Physics
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Ragonis, Noa; Shmallo, Ronit – Informatics in Education, 2022
Object-oriented programming distinguishes between instance attributes and methods and class attributes and methods, annotated by the "static" modifier. Novices encounter difficulty understanding the means and implications of "static" attributes and methods. The paper has two outcomes: (a) a detailed classification of aspects of…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Concept Formation, Thinking Skills
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Kreager, B. Z.; LaDue, N. D.; Shipley, T. F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2023
Sequence stratigraphic and Wheeler diagram interpretations require a strong combination of conceptual understanding and diagram reasoning skills. Students are generally exposed to the foundational concepts within sequence stratigraphy (relative sea level, eustasy, base level, and accommodation) in a variety of courses along their degree path,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Visual Aids, Thinking Skills, Learning Processes
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Amanda Folk; Katie Blocksidge; Jane Hammons; Hanna Primeau – Journal of Information Literacy, 2024
Within the past decade, there has been a shift in how our guiding professional documents conceptualise information literacy (IL) - evolving from a skills-based conceptualisation to one emphasising ways of thinking and knowing. This has been both productive and disruptive. Our professional documentation does not provide a framework for making this…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Concept Formation, Faculty Development
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González, Beatriz Adriana Rodríguez; Ibarra, Gabriela Noemí Figueroa; Barbosa, Omar Guirette; Muñoz, Héctor Antonio Durán – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
There is a growing interest in conducting research in educational mathematics in the area of the didactics of probability, where the main difficulties that students have in understanding the concepts related to statistical inference have been revealed. For this research, the concept of the empirical rule and a practical application created by…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education
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Yun Huang; Christian Dieter Schunn; Julio Guerra; Peter L. Brusilovsky – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Programming skills are increasingly important to the current digital economy, yet these skills have long been regarded as challenging to acquire. A central challenge in learning programming skills involves the simultaneous use of multiple component skills. This article investigates why students struggle with integrating component skills--a…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Error Patterns, Classification
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