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Streveler, Ruth A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2022
Engineering educators strive to help students understand concepts that may be difficult and counterintuitive. This often entails helping students bring their understanding of how a phenomenon works into alignment with the scientifically-accepted explanation. For the most part, fostering conceptual change has been thought of as a process of…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Concept Formation, Engineering Education, Psychological Patterns
Barton, Craig – American Educator, 2018
In this article, the author asserts that asking and responding to diagnostic questions is the single most important part of teaching secondary school mathematics. He notes the importance of formative assessment and recommends a formative assessment strategy that requires students to be public about their answers to questions, displaying their…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Schoenfeld, Alan H. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
In this Research Commentary, the author explores what is meant by "teaching for understanding" and delves into these questions: How does teaching for understanding interact with the backgrounds of the students who experience it or the attributes of the contexts in which they learn? Which empirical findings are context dependent, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Comprehension
Kampourakis, Kostas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Teaching about nature of science (NOS) is considered as an important goal of science education in various countries. Extensive empirical research about how some aspects of NOS can be effectively taught is also available. The most widely adopted conceptualization of NOS is based on a small number of general aspects of NOS, which fall into two…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Smith, K. Christopher; Villarreal, Savannah – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
In this reply to Elon Langbeheim's response to an article recently published in this journal, authors Smith and Villarreal identify several types of general chemistry students' misconceptions concerning the concept of particle position during physical change. They focus their response on one of the misconceptions identified as such: Given a solid…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
Sherin, Bruce – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
In this commentary, the author presents his thoughts on two papers appearing in this special issue. The first, "The Importance of Language in Students' Reasoning about Heat in Thermodynamic Processes," by David T. Brookes and Eugenia Etkina (See: EJ1060728), and the second, "Varying Use of Conceptual Metaphors Across Levels of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Science Education, Schemata (Cognition), Science Instruction
Schattner, Peter – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
Can learning molecular biology and genetics be enjoyable? Of course it can. Biologists know their field is exciting and fascinating and that learning how cells and molecules shape the living world is extraordinarily interesting. But can students who are not already inclined towards science also be convinced that learning molecular biology is…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Student Motivation
Hayes, David – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Beliefs, Misconceptions
Núñez, Rafael – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
The last couple of decades have seen an enormous development in the study of embodied cognition through the investigation of conceptual mappings, such as conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending. Initially, this progress was achieved at a theoretical level, and more recently through empirical research in basic science--from psycholinguistics,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Schemata (Cognition)
Parslow, Graham R. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2012
Teaching by night and reflecting on a subject by day is the way that Salman Khan sees education evolving in the age of online lectures. Khan believes he is onto something in what he styles the "flipped classroom." In Khan's view, there is no need for students to be divided into grades by age. Instead, they should learn at their own pace, moving on…
Descriptors: Homework, Video Technology, Lecture Method, Science Instruction
Stone, Jake E. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
This article provides a commentary on the Reggio Emilia approach from a Vygotskian perspective. In particular, the article considers how Vygotskian rationalism and Vygotsky's theory of concept development cohere with the Reggio Emilia approach. The article argues that these aspects of Vygotskian theory are applicable to, and can strengthen the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Reggio Emilia Approach, Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy
Gibbs, Graham – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
Educational development has changed in many ways over the last 40?years and the International Consortium for Educational Development has highlighted the sheer variety of practices by bringing together educational developers from countries where activities differ markedly. These reflections identify the wide range of foci of attention that are…
Descriptors: Reflection, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Mackenzie, Jim – Oxford Review of Education, 2008
This paper argues that recent work in philosophy complements the discourse of psychologists and educationists on such questions as the differences between behavioral and conceptual learning, the nature of the latter, the formation of general ideas, and the stability and transferability of knowledge. Conclusions about both teaching methods and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Psychologists, Teaching Methods, Philosophy
Vosniadou, Stella – Educational Psychologist, 2007
In this article we argue that both the cognitive and situative perspectives need to be modified to account for the empirical evidence on learning, taking as a central example the problem of knowledge transfer. Our proposal is that we need an approach that takes as a unit of analysis the individual in a constructive interaction with the world…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Methods, Discussion, Intentional Learning
Tiberghien, Andree – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
This commentary on Roth, Lee, and Hwang's paper aims at analysing their theoretical approach in terms of its object of study, and the aspects that are brought to the fore, like the cultural activity of conversation, and those that are overshadowed, like the role of the material world and its perception on learning. This analysis, developed on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Cultural Influences, Science Instruction