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Shannon M. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Chemistry is a difficult subject for many students. The content is challenging, and students often enter chemistry classes with preconceived ideas about chemical phenomena which may or may not align with scientific ideas (Gabel, 1999; Johnstone, 1991, 1993; Nakhleh, 1992). The purpose of this study was to understand high school students'…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Comprehension, Concept Formation
William D. Riihiluoma – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The ability to relate physical concepts and phenomena to multiple mathematical representations--and to move fluidly between these representations--is a critical outcome expected of physics instruction. In upper-division quantum mechanics, students must work with multiple symbolic notations, including some that they have not previously encountered.…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level, College Students
Marissa Renee Bamberger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Belief in psychological misconceptions, especially those regarding brain function and learning (i.e., neuromyths), hinders students' decision-making and learning. This necessitates conceptual change. Using an experimental design, this dissertation examined whether a utility value instructional induction (UVII) facilitated conceptual change.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Misconceptions, Persuasive Discourse, Educational Practices
Rachel Carter Poirier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Reading is a fascinating cognitive process through which individuals perceive arbitrary symbols on a page and turn them into vivid mental representations of text. Most available evidence supports an embodied explanation for how readers are capable of such representations--they recruit supralinguistic brain regions in order to mentally simulate the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies
Kimberly A. Shapiro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Postmodern picturebooks do not follow the established norms of traditional picturebooks and instead invite readers to navigate nonlinear structures and attend to metafictive devices, including counterpoint and multiple narratives, experimental typography, nonlinearity, intertextuality, and ambiguities in meaning. These qualities challenge readers…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Picture Books, Literacy Education, Learning Modalities
Courtney R. Simmons – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research has shown the majority of students who have completed a university calculus course reason about the definite integral primarily in terms of prototypical imagery or in purely algorithmic and non-quantitative ways. This dissertation draws on the framework of Emergent Quantitative Models to identify how calculus students might develop a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Concepts
Olson, Collin S. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Gestures and other bodily movements are frequently used as instructional strategies in second language classrooms. Research has demonstrated that gestures are an effective strategy to improve L2 vocabulary recall. However, previous studies have only used vocabulary items that are known to participants in their native languages. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication
Stradtmann, Amy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Motivation and engagement are often barriers to literacy for adolescent readers. Traditionally, the graphic novel has been seen as easy to read and a resource that only has value for students with language difficulties or learning challenges. This qualitative case study investigated how middle school readers' ability to make meaning contributed to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Motivation, Learner Engagement, Reading
Parrish, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Buddy reading a text is a collaborative act that typically generates discourse that provides researchers with a glimpse of the comprehending taking place. However, in recent years, the infusion of technology in classrooms has resulted in many traditional texts being replaced by digital versions. Thus, this qualitative case study examined the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Comprehension
Shenk, Lynne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The periodic table is recognized as one of the most powerful tools in science. While it is included in virtually all high school and undergraduate general chemistry curricula, it remains a mystery to many chemistry students who find it impossible to decode. Students are often able to predict periodic trends concerning atomic radius, ionization…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Chemistry, Problem Solving
Carter, Kelli Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There has been a call from the national community of biologists and biology educators to increase biological literacy of undergraduate students, including understanding and application of core concepts. The structure and function relationship is a core concept identified by the wider biology community and by physiology faculty. Understanding of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Comprehension, Scientific Concepts, Formative Evaluation
Kimberly D. Buescher – ProQuest LLC, 2015
A well-documented curricular gap exists in L2 pedagogy between the introductory courses, focusing mainly on language, and advanced courses, focusing mainly on literary content. Intermediate learners, despite their proficiency, generally have difficulty in bridging this gap, as it requires a shift from decoding to interpreting and analyzing texts.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Concept Formation, Teaching Methods
Sota, Melinda – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Analogies play significant roles in communication as well as in problem solving and model building in science domains. Analogies have also been incorporated into several different instructional strategies--most notably in science domains where the concepts and principles to be learned are abstract or complex. Although several instructional models…
Descriptors: Evolution, Logical Thinking, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
Burnett-Bradshaw, Camille S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The primary goal of the study presented in this dissertation is to describe 11th-graders' understandings, through different representations, of: (1) the definition of function, (2) the production of a function, and (3) the interpretation of a function. In addition, this dissertation seeks to describe the relationship between 11th-graders' scores…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Comprehension
Heredia, Keily – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This work describes three case studies conducted to address two major problems in the area of chemistry education research, the lack of reported psychometrics regarding instrument scores, and the need for well-characterized assessments to evaluate college chemistry curricula. The first case study describes a psychometric evaluation of the Colorado…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chemistry, Science Education, Educational Research
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