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New Teaching Techniques to Improve Critical Thinking. The Diaprove Methodology
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Saiz, Carlos; Rivas, Silvia F. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2016
The objective of this research is to ascertain whether new instructional techniques can improve critical thinking. To achieve this goal, two different instruction techniques (ARDESOS--group 1--and DIAPROVE--group 2--) were studied and a pre-post assessment of critical thinking in various dimensions such as argumentation, inductive reasoning,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Student Improvement
Syntactic Awareness and Arithmetic Word Problem Solving in Children with and without Learning Disabilities
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Peake, Christian; Jiménez, Juan E.; Rodríguez, Cristina; Bisschop, Elaine; Villarroel, Rebeca – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Arithmetic word problem (AWP) solving is a highly demanding task for children with learning disabilities (LD) since verbal and mathematical information have to be integrated. This study examines specifically how syntactic awareness (SA), the ability to manage the grammatical structures of language, affects AWP solving. Three groups of children in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Arithmetic
Group Training in Interpersonal Problem-Solving Skills for Workplace Adaptation of Adolescents and Adults with Asperger Syndrome: A Preliminary Study
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Bonete, Saray; Calero, María Dolores; Fernández-Parra, Antonio – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Adults with Asperger syndrome show persistent difficulties in social situations which psychosocial treatments may address. Despite the multiple studies focusing on social skills interventions, only some have focused specifically on problem-solving skills and have not targeted workplace adaptation training in the adult population. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asperger Syndrome, Problem Solving, Intervention
Improving Students' Representational Flexibility in Linear-Function Problems: An Intervention
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Acevedo Nistal, A.; Van Dooren, W.; Verschaffel, L. – Educational Psychology, 2014
This study evaluates the effects of an intervention aimed at improving representational flexibility in linear-function problems. Forty-nine students aged 13-16 participated in the study. A pretest-intervention-posttest design with an experimental and control group was used. At pretest, both groups solved a choice test, where they could freely…
Descriptors: Intervention, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Secondary School Mathematics
Evaluation of the ARDESOS Program: An Initiative to Improve Critical Thinking Skills
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Saiz, Carlos; Rivas, Silvia F. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
It is desirable that reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills should form an integral part of our private and professional lives. Here we show how these skills can be improved through the use of the ARDESOS program. To test the effect of the program, we have also developed an assessment test (PENCRISAL). Our results are going in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Inferences
Solving Problems in Genetics, Part III: Change in the View of the Nature of Science
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Ibanez-Orcajo, M. Teresa; Martinez-Aznar, M. Mercedes – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
Numerous investigations show that most school science teaching, in Spain and elsewhere, implicitly transmits an inductivist and very stereotyped view of science and conveys an unrealistic image of scientific work. We present some results of an investigation with fourth-level Spanish secondary education students (15 year olds) who were taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Investigations, Experimental Groups
Solving Problems in Genetics II: Conceptual Restructuring
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Orcajo, Teresa Ibanez; Aznar, Mercedes Martinez – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
This paper presents the results of part of an investigation carried out with fourth-level Spanish secondary education students (15 years old), in which we implemented a teaching unit based on problem-solving methodology as an investigation to teach genetics and human inheritance curricular contents. By solving open problems, the students…
Descriptors: Genetics, Control Groups, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries