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Karen Zwanch; Heather Carlile Carter; Jianna Davenport – Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
This case study investigated the relationship between five undergraduate interior design students' reasoning with numerical units and reasoning about length and area. The multiplicative concepts frame participants' coordination of numerical units. Differences were found between participants' reasoning about length and area, based on their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interior Design, Correlation, Mathematics Skills
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Awaah, Fred; Okebukola, Peter; Shabani, Juma; Arkorful, Helen – Cogent Education, 2023
Studies on reasons accounting for the difficulties in learning public administration is relatively new in the public administration literature though many findings exist regarding students' difficulties in the study of different subject areas. This paper examines whether the perceived reasons in other subjects are real in the study of public…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions, Concept Formation
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Kleinkorres, Ruben; Forthmann, Boris; Holling, Heinz – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
Up to now, support for the idea that a controlled component exists in creative thought has mainly been supported by correlational studies; to further shed light on this issue, we employed an experimental approach. We used four alternate uses tasks that differed in instruction type ("be fluent" vs. "be creative") and concurrent…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Correlation
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Injeong Jo; Jessie Jungeun Hong-Dwyer – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Empirical evidence is insufficient on the specific roles GIS learning plays in developing students' understanding various spatial concepts. The present study aims to draw attention to common struggles of learning some spatial concepts in geography and offer directions for future research on GIS learning and the development of student spatial…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction, Spatial Ability, Concept Formation
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John Hansen; Amanda Nemeth; John Stewart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Curricular analytics (CA) is a quantitative method that analyzes the sequence of courses (curriculum) that students in an undergraduate academic program must complete to fulfill the requirements of the program. The main hypothesis of CA is that the less complex a curriculum is, the more likely it is that students complete the program. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Xiaofei Lu; Yizhou Wang – Language Awareness, 2025
This study explored the relationship between task complexity, textual emotionality, and linguistic complexity in second language (L2) writing. Fifty-eight L2 English learners performed simple and complex versions of an argumentative writing task manipulated along with resource-­directing variables. The essays were first analysed for textual…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Xiuyu Lin; Zehui Zhan; Xuebo Zhang; Jiayi Xiong – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
The attribution of learning success or failure is crucial for students' learning and motivation. Effective attribution of their learning success or failure in the context of a small private online course (SPOC) could generate students' motivation toward learning success while an incorrect attribution would lead to a sense of helplessness. Based on…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Processes, Learning Motivation, Attribution Theory
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Chesebrough, Christine; Chrysikou, Evangelia G.; Holyoak, Keith J.; Zhang, Fengqing; Kounios, John – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
An underexplored aspect of the relationship between analogical reasoning and creativity is its phenomenology; in particular, the notion that analogical reasoning is related to insight and its associated "aha!" experience. However, the relationship between these phenomena has never been directly investigated. We adapted a set of verbal…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Figurative Language, Concept Formation
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Reisoglu, Ilknur; Çebi, Ayça; Bahçekapili, Tugba – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
While the impact of behavioural and cognitive processes on online information searching behaviours have been studied in some depth, little is known about the impact of procedural and metacognitive processes on online information searching behaviours. In addition, although the literature contains studies examining online information searching…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Information Seeking, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes
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Gál, Éva; Tóth-Király, István; Szamosközi, István; Orosz, Gábor – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
The present research, by using cross-sectional (Study 1, N = 413) and daily diary methods (Study 2, N = 95) aimed to investigate the way intelligence mindset influences students' self-esteem and emotional experiences when they are confronting academic adversities (i.e., failures and difficulties). Although fixed intelligence mindset showed no…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Self Esteem, Correlation, Emotional Response
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Redifer, Jenni L.; Bae, Christine L.; DeBusk-Lane, Morgan – SAGE Open, 2019
Creative thinking shares many characteristics with traditional complex tasks. We investigated whether implicit theories of creativity would affect creative thinking in a way similar to the impact of implicit theories of intelligence on academic tasks. We altered participants' theories of creativity to be either more incremental or more…
Descriptors: Theories, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Slepkov, A. D.; Van Bussel, M. L.; Fitze, K. M.; Burr, W. S. – SAGE Open, 2021
There is a broad literature in multiple-choice test development, both in terms of item-writing guidelines, and psychometric functionality as a measurement tool. However, most of the published literature concerns multiple-choice testing in the context of expert-designed high-stakes standardized assessments, with little attention being paid to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests
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Mu-Hsuan Chou – Educational Psychology, 2023
Approaches to learning a second/foreign language can be affected by such individual differences as personality traits, motivational variables, and task difficulty. Personality traits have been proven to influence academic achievement, but their effects on motivation and language learning approaches remain unanswered. The first purpose of the study…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), Task Analysis
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Akhtar, Hanif – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
When examinees perceive a test as low stakes, it is logical to assume that some of them will not put out their maximum effort. This condition makes the validity of the test results more complicated. Although many studies have investigated motivational fluctuation across tests during a testing session, only a small number of studies have…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Student Motivation, Test Validity, Student Attitudes
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Çekmez, Erdem; Cevahir Bolat, Rümeysa – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the understanding of prospective elementary mathematics teachers of the formal definition of the limit of a sequence. The participants were 32 prospective mathematics teachers (8 male and 24 female) who were in their third year of study in a four-year mathematics teacher preparation programme Istanbul…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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