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Threshold Concepts and Pedagogic Representation
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Meyer, Jan H. F. – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a brief exposure to the development of the threshold concepts framework (TCF), the intention being to illuminate for interested readers a broader landscape of research activity than that perhaps conveyed by the individual contributions to this special edition. Design/Methodology/Approach: There is…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Concept Formation, Integrated Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Learning by Mapping across Situations
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Reed, Stephen K. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
Many types of learning require the mapping of information across situations. The proposed organizational framework extends the cognitive study of mappings across problems to include mappings across representations, solutions, and sociocultural contexts. I apply one-to-one, one-to-many, and partial mappings to analyze representative cases that…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cognitive Processes, Logical Thinking, Information Transfer
Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing
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McNeill, Katherine L.; Krajcik, Joseph S. – Pearson, 2011
By providing a variety of strategies, scenarios, examples of student writing, classroom video clips from across all science content areas, rubrics, and guidelines for designing assessment items, "Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing" provides…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Science Teachers
Approaches to Teaching in Mainstream and Separate Postsecondary Classrooms
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Marschark, Marc; Richardson, John T. E.; Sapere, Patricia; Sarchet, Thomastine – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
The study examined attitudes toward teaching reported by university instructors who normally teach hearing students (with the occasional deaf or hard of hearing student) and by instructors who normally teach deaf and hard of hearing students at the same institution. Overall, a view of instruction as "information transmission" was associated with a…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Deafness, Concept Formation, Teaching Methods
Elaboration: The Role of Activity and Conceptual Processing in Children's Memory.
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Grier, Leslie K.; Ratner, Hilary Horn – Child Study Journal, 1996
Examined kindergartners' and third graders' recall to test the effects of four learning strategies applied to items involving three conceptual relations--taxonomic, contextual, and unrelated. Found that (using a constructivist framework for interpretation) learner activity and causal processing improved memory when memory was not supported by…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Teaching Law Concepts within Mainstreamed Middle School Social Studies Settings.
Hollenbeck, Keith; Tindal, Gerald – Diagnostique, 1996
A study compared the performance of 21 sixth graders receiving Title I services, 13 with learning disabilities, 9 gifted students, and 58 others on a legal knowledge test after a 3-week course in a mainstream setting. The groups differed significantly on declarative knowledge tasks, but not on procedural and conditional knowledge tasks. Results…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Strategies