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Download full textSaul, Jeffery M.; Deardorff, Duane L.; Abbott, David S.; Allain, Rhett J.; Beichner, Robert J. – 2000
The Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics (SCALE-UP) project at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is developing a curriculum to promote learning through in-class group activities in introductory physics classes up to 100 students. The authors are currently in Phase II of the project using a specially designed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Curriculum, Concept Formation, Epistemology
Peer reviewedHaile, J. M. – Chemical Engineering Education (CEE), 1997
Argues that there are many kinds of understanding and many ways to reach these different understandings. Suggests that this is the reason why articulating general rules that can consistently lead to understanding is difficult. Discusses the relationship between brain structure and learning. (DDR)
Descriptors: Biology, Brain, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures
Yackel, Erna; Bowers, Janet – 1997
This paper examines students' mathematics learning in a social context as two versions of an instructional sequence designed to facilitate students' development of a conceptual foundation for place-value numeration are enacted in two third grade classrooms. The same instructional sequence is used in each classroom with the regular classroom…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Structures
