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Almog, Nava; Ilany, Bat-Sheva – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
Inequalities are one of the foundational subjects in high school math curricula, but there is a lack of academic research into how students learn certain types of inequalities. This article fills part of the research gap by presenting the findings of a study that examined high school students' methods of approaching absolute value inequalities,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, High School Students, Measures (Individuals)
Rashkovits, Rami; Lavy, Ilana – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
This study discusses and presents various strategies employed by novice programmers concerning exception handling. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: we provide an analysis tool to measure the level of assimilation of exception handling mechanism; we present and analyse strategies to handle exceptions; we present and analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming Languages, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation

Stavy, Ruth – School Science and Mathematics, 1991
The development of students' (n=80) conceptions of matter was investigated. Students' ideas about matter were examined by asking students to verbally explain what matter means and to classify items into matter and nonmatter. A major difficulty is indicated by students regarding the concept of matter. (KR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classification, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education

Dreyfus, Amos – British Educational Research Journal, 1989
Describes a pattern of failure to apply relevant scientific principles among pupils. Tenth grade Israeli students were tested and later interviewed in order to determine areas of knowledge in which there was some question concerning knowledge of scientific principles. Suggests that teachers must involve the pupils in situations in which erroneous…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Interviews

Finegold, M.; Gorsky, P. – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
The consistency, if any, with which force concepts are used by individual students in different, but closely related, contexts was investigated. A total of 534 university and high school students were tested to elicit their beliefs about the forces acting on various objects. Students' beliefs about the forces acting on objects at rest and in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Context Effect

Dreyfus, Amos; Jungwirth, Ehud – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Describes a diagnostic evaluation to measure the idea of the living cell as the basic unit of life. Describes the classification of student knowledge as common knowledge, wide-spread lack of knowledge, inadequate alternatives, and contradictions. (YP)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries