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Lorien Cafarella; Lucas Vasconcelos – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Middle school students often enter Computer Science (CS) classes without previous CS or Computational Thinking (CT) instruction. This study evaluated how Code.org's block-based programming curriculum affects middle school students' CT skills and attitudes toward CT and CS. Sixteen students participated in the study. This was a mixed methods action…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
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Lazar Živojinovic; Danijela Stojanovic; Aleksandra Labus; Zorica Bogdanovic; Marijana Despotovic-Zrakic – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This research proposes a methodological approach to using the social network Instagram® as a tool for collaborative e-learning activities in higher education. Collaborative e-learning activities are conducted on Instagram® through challenges and quizzes. The main aim of these activities is to encourage students' creativity, motivation for…
Descriptors: Social Media, Cooperative Learning, Social Networks, Learning Activities
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Maj-Tatsis, Bozena; Tatsis, Konstantinos – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2018
The present paper examines a patterning activity that was organised within a teaching experiment in order to analyse the different uses of variables by secondary school students. The activity presented in the paper can be categorised as a pictorial/geometric linear pattern. We adopted a student-oriented perspective for our analysis, in order to…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Secondary School Students, Geometric Concepts, Visual Aids
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Sibbald, Matthew; de Bruin, Anique B. H. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Clinicians are believed to use two predominant reasoning strategies: system 1 based pattern recognition, and system 2 based analytical reasoning. Balancing these cognitive reasoning strategies is widely believed to reduce diagnostic error. However, clinicians approach different problems with different reasoning strategies. This study explores…
Descriptors: Expertise, Pattern Recognition, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning
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Tarim, Kamuran – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The aim of this research is twofold; to investigate the effects of cooperative group-based work activities on children's pattern recognition skills in pre-school and to examine the teachers' opinions about the implementation process. In line with this objective, for the study, 57 children (25 girls and 32 boys) were chosen from two private schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Preschool Children
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Chang, Chih-Kai; Chen, Gwo-Dong; Wang, Chin-Yeh – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2011
Functional roles may explain the learning performance of groups. Detecting a functional role is critical for promoting group learning performance in computer-supported collaborative learning environments. However, it is not easy for teachers to identify the functional roles played by students in a web-based learning group, or the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Group Dynamics