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Haupt, Grietjie – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2015
Empirical evidence on the way in which expert designers from different domains cognitively connect their internal processes with external resources is presented in the context of an extended cognition model. The article focuses briefly on the main trends in the extended design cognition theory and in particular on recent trends in information…
Descriptors: Design, Expertise, Cognitive Processes, Models
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Schellings, Gonny – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
This article discusses measuring learning strategies by means of questionnaires. In "multi-method" research, in which think-aloud measures are compared with questionnaires, low or moderate correlations are found. A conclusion often drawn is that learners are not able to verbally report on their learning activities. Alternative explanations concern…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, Questionnaires
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Breakstone, Joel – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2014
This article considers the design process for new formative history assessments. Over the course of 3 years, my colleagues from the Stanford History Education Group and I designed, piloted, and revised dozens of "History Assessments of Thinking" (HATs). As we created HATs, we sought to gather information about their cognitive validity,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Tests, Correlation
Rebello, Carina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored the effects of alternative forms of argumentation on undergraduates' physics solutions in introductory calculus-based physics. A two-phase concurrent mixed methods design was employed to investigate relationships between undergraduates' written argumentation abilities, conceptual quality of problem solutions, as well…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Problem Solving
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Eskin, Handan; Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
The aim of this study was, first, to investigate any pattern between students' quantitative contribution to argumentation and their science understanding, and second, to analyze any relationship between students' qualitative contribution to argumentation and their scientific knowledge. Participants of the study were four tenth-grade students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 10, Physics