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Lee, Peter; And Others – 1993
This paper reports on the current progress of the CHATA Project (Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches, 7 to 14), funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) as part of its program, "Innovation and Change: The Quality of Teaching and Learning." The project is set in the context of changes within history…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Educational Research
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Whitelock, Denise – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
The testing of a formal causal model of thinking about motion is described using a matching-pairs paper-and-pencil task. Subjects were asked to distinguish between examples of stereotypical motions by the similarity or difference of causes of pairs of motions. The results suggest that responses can be predicted by the model with the addition of an…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
van Hout, Hans – 1991
This study examined the problems of postgraduate research assistants in the Netherlands. The study was conducted as a result of Government plans to introduce a new educational system for obtraining a doctorate equivalent to a Ph.D.--the "assistants-in-training system" (aio system). On the basis of a literature study on the American and…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Deng, Francis M. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1996
Identifies and defines four models of internal ethnic conflict and discusses those conflicts within various African nations. The corresponding models and countries include Integration Model: Botswana and Somalia; Managed Diversity Model: Ghana, Cote d'Ivorie, Kenya, and Nigeria; Ambivalent Accommodation Model: Ethiopia and Djibouti; and Acute…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Colonialism, Conflict, Cultural Interrelationships