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Rachmatullah, Arif; Wiebe, Eric N. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Integral to fostering computational thinking (CT) skills, which are increasingly essential in today's digital era, has been the shift of paper-based pictorial modeling activities to computational modeling. Research has indicated that modeling activities can advance students' understanding of a system's mechanism (i.e., systems thinking), such as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Models
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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
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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
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Alisha R. Szozda; Kathryn Bruyere; Hayley Lee; Peter G. Mahaffy; Alison B. Flynn – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Systems thinking in chemistry education (STICE) has been proposed as an approach that could better equip students with abilities to connect their chemistry knowledge with other disciplines and with the skills needed to tackle complex global issues. However, educational change in chemistry is a complex effort that involves many interconnected…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Goncharenko, Olga Nikolaevna; Semenkova, Svetlana Nikolaevna – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
Youth is a dynamically developing social group that actively participates in the reproduction process of the social and professional structure of society. The complication of production processes and rapid scientific and technological progress increase the importance of this social group in Russian society. This scientific article attempts to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Secondary Education, Vocational Education
Katrina Alford – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the world faces increasingly complex issues, there is a recognition in many disciplines that the existing paradigm of reductionist and linear thinking is not enough to address these issues. The agriculture, food, and natural resources fields are facing a host of issues that defy solutions in part because of the level of complexity. Systems…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Models, Classification, Agricultural Education
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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
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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
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Gilissen, Melde G. R.; Knippels, Marie-Christine P. J.; van Joolingen, Wouter R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
The main aim of this study is to teach students to take a systems perspective in understanding complex biological problems. Two lessons were designed and tested in two secondary classes (15- to 16-year-old students), using a lesson study approach. Three students from each class were observed more closely when visualizing and reasoning about two…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Systems Approach
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Nuhoglu, Hasret – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
The main goal of this research is to study the effect of modelling with system dynamics on learning. Specifically, this research studies if using inductive or deductive learning methods applied during modelling with system dynamics has any effect on problem solving skills of students. This research has three other goals: Firstly, the successful…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Conservation (Environment)
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Dilek, Harun; Akbas, Ufuk – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to develop Education Value Perception Scale (EVPS) based on Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory and to investigate its psychometric properties according to Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). The data were collected from 2872 secondary school students by stratified purposeful sampling method.…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Psychometrics, Systems Approach, Measures (Individuals)
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Cox, Marjolein; Elen, Jan; Steegen, An – Journal of Geography, 2019
Increasing interconnectedness of people and goods enhances the complexity of geographical problems. For students to understand geography, systems thinking--and in this context, the use of causal diagrams--is a promising approach. A quasi-experimental design is used in which the systems thinking ability of students working with causal diagrams is…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Concept Mapping, Visual Aids, Systems Approach
Edmunds, Julie A.; Arshavsky, Nina; Coyle, Victoria; Hutchins, Bryan C.; Gicheva, Dora; Lewis, Karla; Williams, Melissa; Rosof, Laura; Henson, Bob – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2022
Project EQuIPD--Engaging Quality Instruction through Professional Development--sought to establish and test for efficacy a professional development model to produce highly qualified teachers in STEM practices for all children, especially for students who are in traditionally underserved schools and districts within the State of Florida. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Models, STEM Education, Teacher Education
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
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Spaiser, Viktoria; Hedström, Peter; Ranganathan, Shyam; Jansson, Kim; Nordvik, Monica K.; Sumpter, David J. T. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
It is widely recognized that segregation processes are often the result of complex nonlinear dynamics. Empirical analyses of complex dynamics are however rare, because there is a lack of appropriate empirical modeling techniques that are capable of capturing complex patterns and nonlinearities. At the same time, we know that many social phenomena…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Research Methodology, Social Systems, Systems Approach
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