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Identifying Cross-Domain Distinguishing Features of Cognitive Structure
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Ifenthaler, Dirk – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
Our research aims to identify domain-specific similarities and differences of externalized cognitive structures. Cognitive structure, also known as knowledge structure or structural knowledge, is conceived as the manner in which an individual organizes the relationships of concepts in memory. By diagnosing these structures precisely, even…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Structures, Learning Processes, Intellectual Disciplines
On the Role of Concepts in Learning and Instructional Design
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Jonassen, David H. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2006
The field of instructional design has traditionally treated concepts as discrete learning outcomes. Theoretically, learning concepts requires correctly isolating and applying attributes of specific objects into their correct categories. Similarity views of concept learning are unable to account for all of the rules governing concept formation,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Evaluation Methods
Alternatives in Evaluating Multimedia in Secondary School Science Teaching
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Cronje, J. C.; Fouche, J. – Computers & Education, 2008
While different approaches to evaluation will yield different results, depending on the purpose of the evaluation this article describes an evaluation approach that was aimed at investigation of the mental models of users of the programme. The study was driven by questions about the differences in mental models of the instructional designers and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Energy, Evaluation Methods
Conceptual Change.
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Ram, Ashwin, Ed.; Nersessian, Nancy J., Ed.; Keil, Frank C., Ed. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1997
This special issue includes four articles that address issues concerning conceptual change. Topics include analogical reasoning and a case study of Johannes Kepler; conceptual change and wine expertise; the role of extreme case reasoning in instruction for conceptual change; and dynamic science assessment: a new approach for investigating…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Concept Formation, Instructional Design
How Do Preservice Teachers Use Concept Maps To Organize Their Curriculum Content Knowledge?
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Ferry, Brian; Hedberg, John; Harper, Barry – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1998
Reports on preservice teachers' use of a concept-mapping tool to create/modify concept maps about science-related elementary curriculum-content knowledge. Data from interviews, journals, and analysis of the concept maps showed how the preservice teachers used the tool to construct their curriculum-content knowledge in the form of more powerful…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Course Content, Elementary Education
Comparing Individual and Collective Mathematical Activity across Two Teaching Experiments. Draft.
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