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Learning by Evaluating (LbE): Promoting Meaningful Reasoning in the Context of Engineering Design Thinking Using Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ)
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Nathan Mentzer; Wonki Lee; Andrew Jackson; Scott Bartholomew – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Adaptive comparative judgment (ACJ) has been widely used to evaluate classroom artifacts with reliability and validity. In the ACJ experience we examined, students were provided a pair of images related to backpack design. For each pair, students were required to select which image could help them ideate better. Then, they were prompted to provide…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Design, Engineering Education, Evaluation Methods
Using Paraphrasing and Text Structure Instruction to Support Main Idea Generation
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Elizabeth A. Stevens; Sharon Vaughn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
The Institute for Education Sciences identifies main idea and summarization instruction as effective practices for improving adolescent students' reading comprehension. Main idea generation is a higher-level comprehension skill that requires students to read the text, connect information across the paragraph or section, determine the most…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing
Middle School Emergent Bilingual Migrant Students and the Encoding of Spanish-English Cognates
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Ignosencia Vasquez Campos – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The assessment data in La Frontera School District suggests a need for improving instructional practices for middle school emergent bilingual migrant students' language and reading development. One possible solution to the language and literacy issues maybe introducing cognates. Cognates are words with identical or similar orthography and meaning…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mathematical Representational Code Switching
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Bossé, Michael J.; Bayaga, Anass; Fountain, Catherine; Young, Erica Slate – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2019
This study investigates representational code-switching (RCS) by considering three high school students' communications in the process of comparing and contrasting pairs of representations (e.g., equation and graph) in the context of rational functions. Supporting this study is research in the realms of students interacting with mathematical…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (12th, Montreal, Canada, July 2-5, 2019)
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Favorite Activities for the Teaching of Psychology
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Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr., Ed. – APA Books, 2008
The most popular activities from APA's successful "Activities Handbooks for the Teaching of Psychology" are gathered together and updated in this book of teachers' favorites. The lesson plans, which encourage active learning and involve the whole class, have stood the test of time and proven themselves to be entertaining, effective, and easy to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans