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Informal Statistical Models and Modeling
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Dvir, Michal; Ben-Zvi, Dani – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
Growing scholarship on the pedagogical applications of statistical modeling is currently taking place to create adaptations of this practice to introduce novices to statistics. These are intended to promote novices' reasoning, and are typically void of formal mathematical procedures and calculations. In this article, we define the potential…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Statistics Education, Novices, Correlation
Assessing the Impact of a Program Designed to Develop Sustainability Leadership amongst Staff Members in Higher Education Institutes: A Case Study from a Community of Practice Perspective
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Alkaher, Iris; Avissar, Ilana – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This study focuses on the impact of a sustainability leadership development program (SLDP) designed to develop staff members as leaders who encourage sustainability practices within institutions of higher education (IHE). Using the framework of community of practice (CoP), we explored the program's contribution by interviewing 16 staff members who…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Program Evaluation
Theories of Transformative Learning in Jewish Education: Three Cases
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Levisohn, Jon A. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2017
We frequently encounter the claim that a particular Jewish educational experience will be "transformative" for the participants. The language may be hyperbole. But it may also point to educators' aspirations to affect not just knowledge and practice but character and identity. In order to understand this phenomenon--not the phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Educational Experience, Jews, Judaism
Bringing Older Adults into the Classroom: The Sharing Community Model
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Hantman, Shira; Oz, Miriam Ben; Gutman, Caroline; Criden, Wendy – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2013
This article describes an innovative model for teaching gerontological social work that has been introduced into the social work methods curriculum in the Department of Social Work at a college in northern Israel. The basic concept of the model is to create an alternative learning environment by including older persons as full participants in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Social Work
Four Case Studies, Six Years Later: Developing System Thinking Skills in Junior High School and Sustaining Them over Time
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Ben-Zvi-Assaraf, Orit; Orion, Nir – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
This study examines the process by which system thinking perceptions develop within the context of a water cycle curriculum. Four junior high school students undergoing an especially designed inquiry-based intervention were closely observed before, during, immediately after, and 6 years after completing a year long systems-based learning program.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Water, Interviews, Junior High School Students
Environmental Education in Israel: A Model.
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Washton, Nathan S. – School Science and Mathematics, 1981
The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary curriculum at the experimental high school on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel, is described. It is viewed as a worldwide model available to academic communities to study the impact of environment on survival of all living things. (MP)
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Curriculum Design, Environmental Education, Experimental Curriculum