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Yong-Woon Choi; In-gyu Go; Yeong-Jae Gil – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to derive a correlation between the technological thinking disposition and the computational thinking ability of gifted students in Korea. The correlation between each element was analyzed by looking at the sub-elements of computational thinking according to the components of technological thinking disposition. The…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mental Computation, Gifted, Correlation
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Argelagós, Esther; Pifarré, Manoli – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The use of the Internet to learn involves complex cognitive activities. Educational researchers claim more attention in studying the nature of students' challenges when using digital information for learning purposes. Our research investigated in depth the challenges that secondary students face when solving web information-problem tasks. We…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Computer Literacy, Gender Differences, Internet
Dorko, Allison; Speer, Natasha – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2015
Units of measure are critical in many scientific fields. While instructors often note that students struggle with units, little research has been conducted about the nature and extent of these difficulties or why they exist. We investigated calculus students' unit use in area and volume computations. Seventy-three percent of students gave…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Calculus, Geometric Concepts
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Wäschle, Kristin; Lehmann, Thomas; Brauch, Nicola; Nückles, Matthias – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
Becoming a history teacher requires the integration of pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and content knowledge. Because the integration of knowledge from different disciplines is a complex task, we investigated prompted learning journals as a method to support teacher students' knowledge integration. Fifty-two preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, History Instruction, Journal Writing, Prompting
Assiri, Mohammed S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
With the focus on how a sample of 25 Arab ESL learners respond to the TOEFL-iBT reading tasks, this study aimed to find out what strategies respondents tend to use, investigate if there are differences between high- and low-scorers in strategy use, and determine aspects of effective strategy use among respondents. Data were collected using a…
Descriptors: Arabs, Program Effectiveness, Scoring, Data Analysis