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Saeed Salimpour; Russell Tytler; Michael T. Fitzgerald; Urban Eriksson – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023
Cosmology presents students with ideas that stimulate their curiosity and brings together various concepts from STEM that call on a variety of reasoning types across multiple representational modes, involving subtleties of spacetime relations, a variety of models and evidence requiring multiple lines of high precision observations. This study…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
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Nordlander, Maria Cortas; Nordlander, Edvard – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2012
A study of how Swedish students understand the concept of complex numbers was performed. A questionnaire was issued reflecting the student view of own perception. Obtained answers show a variety of concept images describing how students adopt the concept of complex numbers. These concept images are classified into four categories in order to…
Descriptors: Numbers, Classification, Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction
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Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education