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Graphic Comprehension and Interpretation Skills of Preservice Teachers with Different Learning Approaches in a Technology-Aided Learning Environment
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Çelik, Harun; Pektas, Hüseyin Miraç – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
A one-group quasi-experimental design and survey methodology were used to investigate the effect of virtual laboratory practices on preservice teachers' (N = 29) graphic comprehension and interpretation skills with different learning approaches. Pretest and posttest data were collected with the Test of Understanding Kinematic Graphs. The Learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Learning Strategies, Graphs, Skill Analysis
Teaching Real Data Interpretation with Models (TRIM): Analysis of Student Dialogue in a Large-Enrollment Cell and Developmental Biology Course
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Zagallo, Patricia; Meddleton, Shanice; Bolger, Molly S. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
We present our design for a cell biology course to integrate content with scientific practices, specifically data interpretation and model-based reasoning. A 2-year research project within this course allowed us to understand how students interpret authentic biological data in this setting. Through analysis of written work, we measured the extent…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Cytology, Instructional Design
Undergraduate Student Construction and Interpretation of Graphs in Physics Lab Activities
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Nixon, Ryan S.; Godfrey, T. J.; Mayhew, Nicholas T.; Wiegert, Craig C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Lab activities are an important element of an undergraduate physics course. In these lab activities, students construct and interpret graphs in order to connect the procedures of the lab with an understanding of the related physics concepts. This study investigated undergraduate students' construction and interpretation of graphs with best-fit…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graphs, Physics, Laboratory Procedures
Detecting Learning Strategies with Analytics: Links with Self-Reported Measures and Academic Performance
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Gaševic, Dragan; Jovanovic, Jelena; Pardo, Abelardo; Dawson, Shane – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2017
The use of analytic methods for extracting learning strategies from trace data has attracted considerable attention in the literature. However, there is a paucity of research examining any association between learning strategies extracted from trace data and responses to well-established self-report instruments and performance scores. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Educational Research
Modeling the Distinct Phases of Skill Acquisition
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Tenison, Caitlin; Anderson, John R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
A focus of early mathematics education is to build fluency through practice. Several models of skill acquisition have sought to explain the increase in fluency because of practice by modeling both the learning mechanisms driving this speedup and the changes in cognitive processes involved in executing the skill (such as transitioning from…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Mathematics Skills, Learning Processes, Markov Processes
Making Sense of Students' Actions in an Open-Ended Virtual Laboratory Environment
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Gal, Ya'akov; Uzan, Oriel; Belford, Robert; Karabinos, Michael; Yaron, David – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
A process for analyzing log files collected from open-ended learning environments is developed and tested on a virtual lab problem involving reaction stoichiometry. The process utilizes a set of visualization tools that, by grouping student actions in a hierarchical manner, helps experts make sense of the linear list of student actions recorded in…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Laboratory Experiments, Online Courses, Electronic Learning