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Panayiota Kendeou – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
In this paper, I discuss the inspiration, development, and further refinement of the Knowledge Revision Components framework (KReC; Kendeou & O'Brien, 2014). In KReC, we theorize about the conditions that facilitate knowledge revision during reading, and thus successful learning in the presence of prior, often incorrect knowledge. I discuss…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Reading, Prior Learning, Information Literacy
Micah Watanabe; Tracy Arner; Danielle McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
David Stephens, a 4th grade teacher in Washington State, was preparing a lesson plan about desert wildlife (all names are pseudonyms). He was planning on assigning his students the chapter book, "Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus." The students had divergent knowledge about the topic. For example, Maryam had grown up in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Elementary School Students
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Stock, Wendy A. – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
What do we know about how well graduate teaching in economics addresses cognitive challenges to learning? In short, very little. There is a dearth of research that investigates how graduate student, program and professor characteristics, and choices impact graduate student learning and other outcomes. Some of the broader literature on graduate…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Graduate Students, Learning, Cognitive Structures
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John Paul Tassoni – Journal of Basic Writing, 2024
This narrative essay describes a basic writing instructor's engagement with student confusion in a hybrid Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) course. The story examines the ways confusion can mark sites of engagement for students and teachers and how ALP courses, in particular, might mediate effective (and ineffective) forms of confusion.
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Teachers, Blended Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
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Taber, Keith S. – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
This article argues that what is most at risk in schooling during a global pandemic, or other similar broad challenges to normal functioning, are those elements that might be considered the less traditional and so the most progressive. After setting out some general background common to the challenge faced by schools and school teachers, this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Progressive Education
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Colby, Ira – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
Urban legends circulate throughout society, including higher education and social work education. Some academic mythologies take on the status of a tradition--no matter the evidence or lack thereof--and continue to thrive, to influence thinking, and to shape norms, which, in turn, direct behaviors. As with urban legends, academic myths are able to…
Descriptors: Social Work, Misconceptions, Critical Thinking, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Elliott, Katrina; Pillman, Anne – Teaching Science, 2016
This paper explores strategies for teachers to work with science conceptions, both those consistent and those inconsistent with western science understanding. It emphasises the value of teachers checking their own and their students' prior understanding of concepts to be learnt. A past approach of educators has been to replace old beliefs with new…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Attitudes, Misconceptions
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Ergul, N. Remziye – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
This study investigated the basic knowledge levels of teacher candidates from different branches regarding the subjects of radiation and radioactivity. 42 variables were determined in relation to the specified titles. In the preparation stage of determining the variables, all the related programs were examined, and attention was paid to include…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Radiation, Knowledge Level
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Shanahan, Timothy – Educational Leadership, 2013
Urban legends are plausible stories--told as truths--that revolve around the complexities and challenges of modern life. Sociologists have not managed to pin down exactly how and why these stories get started, but they are clearly spread by word of mouth and there is usually a grain of truth in them (and sometimes, as it turns out in the case of…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Misconceptions, Popular Culture
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Sherin, Bruce L.; Krakowski, Moshe; Lee, Victor R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
This article is concerned with "commonsense science knowledge", the informally gained knowledge of the natural world that students possess prior to formal instruction in a scientific discipline. Although commonsense science has been the focus of substantial study for more than two decades, there are still profound disagreements about its nature…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
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Lambe, Susan; Cantwell, Nicole; Islam, Fareesa; Horvath, Kathy; Jefferson, Angela L. – Gerontologist, 2011
Purpose: To learn about African American older adults' knowledge and perceptions of brain donation, factors that relate to participating or not participating in a brain donation research program, and methods to increase African American brain donation commitment rates in the context of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) research program. Design and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Medical Research, Alzheimers Disease, Focus Groups
Universities UK, 2016
Universities transform lives. Going to university leads to new ways of seeing the world, to new horizons and networks, and to significantly enhanced job opportunities, but not everyone benefits in the same way. Fewer students from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds go to university, and when they do they tend not to do as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Savion, Leah – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
A large body of research demonstrates the incredible power of initial conceptions, scripts, and stereotypes that result from our naive theories. Prior knowledge compatible with information introduced by instructors enhances encoding and retrieval, but hinders learning when in conflict with it. Theories and facts contradicting existing beliefs are…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Misconceptions, Heuristics, Theories
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Roberts, Kim P.; Powell, Martine B. – Child Development, 2007
The current study addressed how the timing of interviews affected children's memories of unique and repeated events. Five- to six-year-olds (N = 125) participated in activities 1 or 4 times and were misinformed either 3 or 21 days after the only or last event. Although single-experience children were subsequently less accurate in the 21- versus…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Young Children, Interviews, Time
Upadhyay, Bhaskar; DeFranco, Cristina – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2008
This study compares 3rd-grade elementary students' gain and retention of science vocabulary over time in two different classes--"connected science instruction" versus "direct instruction." Data analysis yielded that students who received connected science instruction showed less gain in science knowledge in the short term compared to students who…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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