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Rodríguez-Nieto, Camilo Andrés; Rodríguez-Vásquez, Flor Monserrat; García-García, Javier – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The quality of the intra-mathematical connections made by Mexican university students when solving tasks on the derivative was characterized. The typology of mathematical connections and the quality levels of mathematical connections were used. Interviews were conducted based on eight tasks applied to three case studies. The results showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Late Adolescents, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Mi, Shuaishuai; Lu, Shanshan; Bi, Hualin – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
This study aims to reveal the trends and foundations in research on students' conceptual understanding in science education. The literature was selected from three recognized journals in science education. The Structural Topic Model (STM) method was used to categorize articles into ten topics considering information about the semantic cohesion and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Persuasive Discourse
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Land, Ray; Rattray, Julie; Vivian, Peter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
The threshold concepts approach to student learning and curriculum design now informs an empirical research base comprising over 170 disciplinary and professional contexts. It draws extensively on the notion of troublesomeness in a "liminal" space of learning. The latter is a transformative state in the process of learning in which there…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Curriculum Design, Learning Processes, Figurative Language