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Jingwan Tang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study aims to explore the validity of measuring joint attention through gaze coordination in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) research. Gaze coordination, aligning visual attention in social contexts, aids comprehension and communication. Many CSCL researchers use gaze coordination to gauge joint attention quantitatively.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Eye Movements
Haider, Muhammad Qadeer – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Inquiry-oriented teaching is a specific form of active learning gaining popularity in teaching communities. The goal of inquiry-oriented classes is to help students in gaining a conceptual understanding of the material. My research focus is to gauge students' performance and conceptual understanding in inquiry-oriented linear algebra classes. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Chen, Guanhua – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is part of a larger design study that iteratively improves a robotics programming curriculum as well as a computational thinking (CT) instrument. Its focus was majorly on CT assessment and particularly on an online CT instrument with logging functionality that can store a student's problem-solving process by recording interactions…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Test Construction, Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Duncan, Neelima Gutti – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Direct training procedures have been beneficial in increasing teachers' knowledge and skills for the use of recommended intervention for target students in their classrooms. However, direct training alone has not been successful in teachers' consistent and sustained use of the intervention for the target student and the generalized use…
Descriptors: Intervention, Direct Instruction, Problem Solving, Teachers
Pham, Linh Hung – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study was designed to investigate the predictive relationships of creative problem-solving attributes, which comprise divergent thinking, convergent thinking, motivation, general and domain knowledge and skills, and environment, with mathematical creativity of sixth grade students in Thai Nguyen City, Viet Nam. The study also aims to revise…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking, Thinking Skills
Yang, Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Investigating students' perceptions of their classroom environment is one of the ways researchers and educators can effectively determine what factors may benefit students' learning. Student Perceptions of Classroom Quality (SPOCQ; Gentry & Owen, 2004) was used with a group of Chinese gifted and general secondary students in the study. SPOCQ…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, Self Efficacy
Perry, Lee R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In response to the diverse requirements of 21st-century police work and the increasing emphasis on community-policing philosophy, the Los Angeles Police Department has implemented changes within its academy curricula and methods of instruction, including the use of adult-learning concepts, a community policing problem-solving model known as…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Law Enforcement, Police Education, Training Methods
Buelin-Biesecker, Jennifer Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study compared the creative outcomes in student work resulting from two pedagogical approaches to creative problem solving activities. A secondary goal was to validate the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) as a means of assessing creativity. Linear models for problem solving and design processes serve as the current paradigm in classroom…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Creativity, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods