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Alexia Micallef; Philip M. Newton – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Prior research suggests that the teaching of abstract concepts can be enhanced by the use of concrete examples, but there are few controlled studies. Objective: To replicate key findings from experiment one from Rawson et al. (2015). Method: Experiment participants studied definitions of abstract concepts from psychology, either with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Psychology, Concept Formation
Tim Stoeckel; Tomoko Ishii – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
In an upcoming coverage-comprehension study, we plan to assess learners' meaning-recall knowledge of words as they occur in the study's reading passage. As several meaning-recall test formats exist, the purpose of this small-scale study (N = 10) was to determine which of three formats was most similar to a criterion interview regarding mean score…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Classification
Baktemur, Gamze; Civak, Rukiye Ayan; Bostan, Mine Isiksal – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service middle school mathematics teachers' (mis)conceptions related to definitions, classifications, and inclusion relations of convex quadrilaterals through a case study research design. The participants of the study were 20 pre-service middle school mathematics teachers who attended a must course,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Middle School Mathematics, Undergraduate Students
Swanson, Scott R. – Marketing Education Review, 2019
Prior to taking the principles of marketing course, undergraduate students were surveyed to determine their perceptions of marketing. Twelve categories emerged from the content analysis, suggesting that students have a more holistic view of marketing than previously reported. Results provide a vivid portrait of current student beliefs.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Marketing, Beliefs
McClung, Emily L.; Schneider, Joanne Kraenzle – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2015
Over the last several decades there has been an increase in the amount of research conducted concerning academically dishonest behaviors at the undergraduate level. However, this research and subsequent interventions are based on the assumptions that there exists a clear understanding of what constitutes academic dishonesty. In an attempt to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cheating, Student Attitudes, Classification
Kim, Miso – English Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to analyze six English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' trajectories of discriminating near-synonyms in a data-driven learning task. Since the learners find it considerably difficult to learn subtle meaning differences of near-synonyms, corpus-based data-driven learning may provide an opportunity for them to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
Dolu, Gamze – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
Determining what students think about science, technology, and society (STS) is of great importance. This also provides the basis for scientific literacy. As such, this study was conducted with a total of 102 senior students attending a university located in western Turkey. This study utilized the survey model as a research model and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Seniors, Student Attitudes
Little, Angela Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation I analyze the process of crafting definitions whose purpose is classification. The context I examine is undergraduate upper-division physical science majors defining and naming sub-categories of a physical phenomenon in the context of a design task over an extended period of time. The goal of the design task is one of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Classification, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
Unsal, Yasin – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2010
In several resources, especially in textbooks, there are two or more alternatives for terms. These terms generally come from foreign words and alternative equivalences of these words. The aim of the study is to investigate whether this situation causes students problems in perceiving the terms; in which alternatives, the conceptual perception is…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Physics, Science Education, Foreign Countries