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De Van Vo; Geraldine Mooney Simmie – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
While national curricula in science education highlight the importance of inquiry-based learning, assessing students' capabilities in scientific inquiry remains a subject of debate. Our study explored the construction, developmental trends and validation techniques in relation to assessing scientific inquiry using a systematic literature review…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Science Process Skills, Student Evaluation
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Rönnebeck, Silke; Bernholt, Sascha; Ropohl, Mathias – Studies in Science Education, 2016
Despite the importance of scientific inquiry in science education, researchers and educators disagree considerably regarding what features define this instructional approach. While a large body of literature addresses theoretical considerations, numerous empirical studies investigate scientific inquiry on quite different levels of detail and also…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Inquiry, Scientific Research, Scientific Concepts
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Maor, Dorit; Ensor, Jason D.; Fraser, Barry J. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Supervision of doctoral students needs to be improved to increase completion rates, reduce attrition rates (estimated to be at 25% or more) and improve quality of research. The current literature review aimed to explore the contribution that technology can make to higher degree research supervision. The articles selected included empirical studies…
Descriptors: Supervision, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Klauer, Karl Josef; Phye, Gary D. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
Researchers have examined inductive reasoning to identify different cognitive processes when participants deal with inductive problems. This article presents a prescriptive theory of inductive reasoning that identifies cognitive processing using a procedural strategy for making comparisons. It is hypothesized that training in the use of the…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Klin, Celia M.; Guzman, Alexandria E.; Weingartner, Kristin M.; Ralano, Angela S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Klin et al., 2004 and Levine et al., 2000 concluded that readers fail to resolve noun phrase anaphors when the antecedent is difficult to retrieve from memory and the inference is not necessary for comprehension. In four experiments we investigated the hypothesis that these inferences were actually partially encoded. Although the results of a…
Descriptors: Inferences, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Lexicology