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Tugba Dönmez – Online Submission, 2023
Rules are often created based on the needs and values of society. Social rules, on the other hand, are guidelines that state whether we should or should not do certain behaviors. In addition to educational activities, schools also include activities aimed at teaching social rules. The concept of rule, its formation, implementation, classification…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Student Attitudes
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Teaching and learning of technical terms constitute a major problem for ESP instructors and students. To help the students learn, retain, apply and relate technical terms, a multiple-associations instructional approach that focuses on connecting the printed form of the technical term with its pronunciation (the hidden sounds, double and silent…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
This article aims to give a comprehensive guide to planning and designing vocabulary tests which include Identifying the skills to be covered by the test; outlining the course content covered; preparing a table of specifications that shows the skill, content topics and number of questions allocated to each; and preparing the test instructions. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Test Construction, Course Content
Erdogan, Ahmet – Online Submission, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine pre-service mathematics teachers' conceptual structures about "geometry". Qualitative research methodology has been adopted in the study. The data of the study is obtained from mathematics teacher candidates who have been students at the faculties of education of an Anatolian university in the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Toghyani Khorasgani, Amir; Khanehgir, Mansour – Online Submission, 2017
Early language learning for children is increasingly common, and the majority of parents and the public do not see it as superfluous or overburdening children. Moreover, teaching a foreign language to very young children has been an increasingly dominant trend in most globalized societies. While there is abundant literature that supports teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hacioglu, Yasemin; Yamak, Havva; Kavak, Nusret – Online Submission, 2016
The aim of this study is to reveal pre-service science teachers' cognitive structures regarding Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and science education. The study group of the study consisted of 192 pre-service science teachers. A Free Word Association Test (WAT) consisting of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Structures, STEM Education, Science Teachers
Eren, Fetah; Sahin, Ismail; Celik, Ismail; Akturk, Ahmet Oguz – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this study is to discover secondary school students' perceptions related to information technologies and the connections between concepts in their cognitive structures. A word association test consisting of six concepts related to information technologies is used to collect data from 244 secondary school students. Concept maps that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Information Technology
Howell, Gina – Online Submission, 2012
For this project I worked with twelve of my fourth grade students from a local school in the southwestern part of Stokes County, North Carolina on increasing their vocabulary skills through the development and implementation of seven vocabulary strategies. During the Literature Review I came across the following seven strategies: Prediction;…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Semantics, Observation, Vocabulary
Silla, Vanessa A.; Vesloski, Mary J. – Online Submission, 2008
The importance of play in child development and the barriers that individuals with autism face regarding play skills requires us to identify specific interventions which can assist in the development of such skills. Stimulus pairing, which has been documented as a procedure by which an event comes to elicit a response by being paired with an event…
Descriptors: Autism, Observational Learning, Child Development, Association (Psychology)