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White, Peter J. T.; Syncox, David; Heppleston, Audrey; Isaac, Siara; Alters, Brian – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Teaching competence is an important skill for graduate students to acquire and is often considered a precursor to an academic career. In this study, we evaluated the effects of a multi-day teaching workshop on graduate teaching philosophies by surveying 200 graduate students, 79 of whom had taken the workshops and 121 who had not. We found no…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Theory Practice Relationship, Workshops, Educational Philosophy
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Jubas, Kaela – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
This article discusses shopping, especially critical shopping, as a process of informal and incidental adult learning about the intersecting politics of globalization and consumption. The author uses academic skills and disciplines as a metaphor to respond to an emerging conceptual question: To what extent can formality, informality, and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Concept Formation, Informal Education, Figurative Language
Korpan, Connie A.; Bisanz, Gay L.; Bisanz, Jeffrey; Lynch, Mervyn A. – 1998
This report opens with a review of how two structured interview protocols that identify the nature and scope of children's science-related activities outside of school were developed. The interview procedures are known as Community and Home Activities Related To Technology and Science (CHARTS) with the preschool version known as CHARTS/PS and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Alberta Education, 2007
Young people entering post-secondary institutions or seeking employment generally require senior high school diplomas. There are few jobs available that do not require advanced levels of many kinds of literacy and most employers will consider only those applicants who have completed senior high school, even for entry-level positions. When English…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, High Schools, Speech Communication, Second Languages
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Meyer, Karen; Woodruff, Earl – Science Education, 1997
Focuses on one target group of seventh-grade science students (N=19) who are working to achieve consensus and a coherent explanation of light and shadow effects. Articulates the beginnings of a framework for consensus building with inquiry discourse. Contains 41 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect, Discourse Modes
Woloshyn, Vera E.; And Others – 1992
One hundred and forty students in grades 6 and 7 were asked to process 32 science statements. Half of the statements were consistent with their prior knowledge, whereas the remaining facts were inconsistent with it. Half of the students were instructed to read the sentences for understanding (reading controls). The remaining students were…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation