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Iva Božovic – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
This work reports on the implementation of a self-contained data-literacy exercise designed for use in undergraduate classes to help students practice data literacy skills such as interpreting and evaluating evidence and assessing arguments based on data. The exercises use already developed data-visualizations to test and develop students' ability…
Descriptors: Data Use, Teaching Methods, Data, Information Literacy
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Spindler, Richard – PRIMUS, 2019
Project-based learning supports unique and authentic problems in differential equations courses. An intuitive, interesting and deep differential equations project is described. The description illustrates a case study of guiding students through a complex project and the technical and personal rewards gained from it. Valuable advice is provided to…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Calculus, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction
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Xu, Sen; Jiang, Xueting; Walsh, Ian J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2018
In this paper, we explain the influence of co-worker trust on the effect of employees' openness to experience on their perceptions of their own creativity. We surveyed 199 working professionals in Ireland and found that openness to experience was positively associated with both employees' perceptions of their radical creativity and incremental…
Descriptors: Creativity, Work Experience, Trust (Psychology), Collegiality
Folsom, Jennifer; Espolt, Aaron; Moyle, Patrick; Leonard, Karen; Busselle, Rebecah; Pate, Christina; Walrond, Natalie – National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2021
There is enormous urgency to actively develop sound plans that address equity, social and emotional well-being, and academic excellence in schools. This blueprint is founded on the belief that all students can succeed when learning is supported by equitable systems. To achieve equity, individuals and systems must truly value all students and their…
Descriptors: Well Being, Excellence in Education, Equal Education, Academic Achievement
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Acar, Serra; Blasco, Patricia M. – Young Exceptional Children, 2018
The Part C of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2011) supports service delivery that recognizes cultural and linguistic diversity, which often involves the use of interpreters and translators, §303.321(a)(5) and 303.321(a)(6). Therefore, it is essential that early intervention/early childhood special education…
Descriptors: Translation, Early Intervention, Special Education, Guidelines
Briggs, Derek C.; Diaz-Bilello, Elena; Peck, Fred; Alzen, Jessica; Chattergoon, Rajendra; Johnson, Raymond – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2015
This report describes the use of a Learning Progression Framework (LPF) to support the Student Learning Objectives (SLO) process. The report highlights a few common threats we currently see in the SLO process implemented at various states and districts, and offers the LPF as a possible solution for addressing these threats. This report was…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Objectives, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Belward, Shaun; Balatti, Jo – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
Peer group learning is the name we have given to a particular type of collaborative learning that has been implemented as part of an action research project designed to improve teaching and learning of first year university mathematics at James Cook University. Using an innovation-decision process model we analysed the response of academics to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Cooperative Learning, Action Research
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Levy, Brett L. M.; Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth; Drago, Kathryn; Rex, Lesley A. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Many educational researchers across the United States have found that inquiry-based learning (IBL) supports the development of deep, meaningful content knowledge. However, integrating IBL into classroom practice has been challenging, in part because of contrasting conceptualizations and practices across educational fields. In this article, we (a)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Educational Practices, Professional Development
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Leutner, Detlev; Plass, Jan L. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1998
Describes the development of the VV-BOS (Visualizer/Verbalizer Behavior Observation Scale), a computer-based instrument for direct observation of students' preferences for visual or verbal learning material. Results of a study with second-language learners indicated a high degree of reliability as an alternative to conventional questionnaires.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Oriented Programs, Learning Strategies, Observation
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Kashihara, Akihiro; Kinshuk; Oppermann, Reinhard; Rashev, Rossen; Simm, Helmut – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2000
Describes a methodology for supporting exploratory learning that attempts to limit learning space, called exploration space, and adequately control the cognitive load learners would face in their exploration process. In Exploration Space Control (ESC) the extent of exploration space is controlled according to domain complexity, but also to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Educational Environment
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Maypole, Joanne; Davies, Timothy Gray – Community College Review, 2001
Describes a qualitative study of a community college American history survey course using constructivist teaching, wherein all learning is filtered through the learner's lens of reality. Reports that one implication of the study was that applied constructivism may result in a more holistic approach to teaching and learning. (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Bower, B. – Science News, 1987
Discusses the findings of a recent study concerning the ability of an infant to see an object as a symbol. Reports that infants between 36 and 39 months old significantly outperformed informed infants between 30 and 32 months old on a symbolic task. (TW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Imagery
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DeLoache, Judy S. – Science, 1987
Reports on a study in which the symbolic relation between a scale model and the larger space that it represents was displayed by two groups of young children. Three-year-old children outperformed 2.5-year-olds in finding an object in a room after seeing an analogous object hidden in a model. (TW)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Imagery
Rubin, Rochelle L.; Norman, John T. – 1989
Previous research has shown a relationship between formal reasoning ability and science process skill attainment. It has been hypothesized that an increased emphasis on teaching process skills might enhance the formal thinking abilities of students. A variety of strategies have been proposed to better accomplish this task, most notable, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Junior High Schools
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Fouzder, Nani B.; Markwick, Andrew J. W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Describes the affective factors involved in the academic progress and achievement of newly-arrived bilingual twins in a secondary school in London. Finds that different personality traits and self-perceptions resulted in the development of their divergent personal learning styles, and that task interest, appropriate learning strategies, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries
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