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Nakiboglu, Canan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
The topic of physical and chemical changes is one of the basic and essential issues of both the lowersecondary school science curriculum and the upper-secondary school chemistry curriculum in many countries. The focus of the present study is to investigate the students' cognitive structures on the topic of physical and chemical changes at…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures
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Bozdemir, Hafife; Ezberci Çevik, Ebru; Kurnaz, Mehmet Altan; Yaz, Ömer Volkan – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2019
The purpose of this study is to determine the distribution of Science achievements in Life Studies Course Curricula of 2009, 2015 and 2018 regarding the knowledge and cognitive process dimensions of the Revised Bloom Taxonomy and to comparatively examine the resulting distributions. This study adopted document analysis. While conducting the…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Science Achievement, Biological Sciences, Science Instruction
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Yener, Yesim – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The main focus of this study is to determine pre-service science teachers' cognitive structure about trichome and stoma through two alternative assessment techniques: metaphor and word association test. The study was conducted with 35 pre-service science teachers. Word association test given stoma and trichome as stimulant words was applied. Also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Eroglu, Deniz; Tanisli, Dilek – Online Submission, 2017
Getting students adopt the habits of mind specific to many disciplines can be seen as an anchor that will support them to solve the problems in their daily lives. Starting from this premise, a new subject, featuring the habits of mind and how to use and improve them in educational environments seems to worth thinking on. This article describes an…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
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Önal, Gökçe Ketizmen – Design and Technology Education, 2017
This study is mainly about developing an approach for fostering creativity in design education through analyzing the interactions among creative dimensions resembling spatial and organizational pattern of folding as a technique and also by the help of cognitive action of designers: workshop participants. In order to make an assessment, a case…
Descriptors: Creativity, Design, Interaction, Spatial Ability
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Acar, Ömer; Türkmen, Lütfullah; Bilgin, Ahmet – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
We examined the influence of several students' cognitive and motivational factors on 8th graders' science achievement and also gender differences on factors that significantly contribute to the science achievement model. A total of 99 girls and 83 boys responded all the instruments used in this study. Results showed that girls outperformed boys on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Science Achievement, Grade 8, Student Motivation
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Yalçinkaya, Elvan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Problem Statement: History is a science that helps people guide their futures; it is an indispensable part of education. It is important for students to know the past well in order to understand the present better and direct their future. History does not have magical laws to generalize in predicting future. However, we have to know that history…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Figurative Language, History Instruction, Concept Formation
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Kurt, Hakan; Ekici, Gulay; Aktas, Murat; Aksu, Ozlem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The purpose of the current study is to determine biology student teachers' cognitive structures on the concept of microscope. Qualitative research methodology has been applied in the study. The data were collected from biology student teachers. Free word association test and drawing-writing test were used to collect data. The data collected were…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Biology, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts
Bingolbali, Erhan; Monaghan, John – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This report explores first year undergraduate mechanical engineering and mathematics students' conceptions of the derivative and the contribution that membership of different departments may have on these conceptions. Quantitative results suggest that mechanical engineering students develop a proclivity for rate of change aspects of the derivative…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education, Concept Formation
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Baser, Mustafa – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive conflict based physics instruction over traditionally designed physics instruction on preservice primary school teachers at grade 2. The subjects were 82 (27 boys, 55 girls) second grade pre-service teachers in two classes. One of the classes (42 students) was randomly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods