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Isabelle C. de Vink; Lisette Hornstra; Evelyn H. Kroesbergen – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Creative thinking is an important aspect of education. However, students differ widely in their ability to think creatively. Working memory might explain these differences. Therefore, this study focuses on how different aspects of WM can explain differences in divergent thinking, both separately and conjointly. To do so, latent profile analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Creative Thinking
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Benjamin D. Zinszer; Joelle Hannon; Anqi Hu; Aya Élise Kouadio; Hermann Akpé; Fabrice Tanoh; Madeleine Wang; Zhenghan Qi; Kaja Jasinska – Developmental Science, 2024
Studies of non-linguistic statistical learning (SL) have often linked performance in SL tasks with differences in language outcomes. Most of these studies have focused on Western and high-income educational contexts, but children worldwide learn in radically different educational systems and communities, and often in a second language. In the west…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Grade 5
Spyridoula Tsouganatou – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify quality indicators for visual based learning material for technology education classes for grades 6th to 9th. This is a three round Delphi study aimed in answering the following research question. RQ: What are the quality indicators that contribute to the successful selection of visual-based learning…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Sukma Perdana Prasetya; Fahmi Fahrudin Fadirubun; Lidya Lestari Sitohang; Armawati Hidayati – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
This research aimed to investigate the impact of learning strategies with learning styles on learning performance in disaster mitigation. Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Direct Instruction (DI) are the strategies used. The learning styles used as moderator variables are kinaesthetic, visual and auditory. The research subjects included two junior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Problem Based Learning, Direct Instruction
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Daihu Yang; Minghui Zhou – American Biology Teacher, 2024
The Next Generation Science Standards regard biological structures at both the micro and macro levels as a core idea of life sciences and expect students to understand animals have external structures that perform diverse functions. Using the common creature of bees as a case, this study aimed to ascertain teenage students' ideas of bees through…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Freehand Drawing, Scoring Rubrics
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Wan Mohd Faizal Wan Mohd Nasir; Lilia Halim; Nurazidawati Mohamad Arsad – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
Mastering creative thinking skills (CTS) is crucial for enhancing students' science conceptual understanding. However, conventional teaching prioritizes linear thinking over the three sub-CTS essential to science learning: associative, visual, and divergent thinking. Weaknesses in these three sub-CTS cause students to have misconceptions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, High School Students, Grade 8
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Yuchen Chen; Xinli Zhang; Lailin Hu – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
In conventional ancient Chinese poetry learning, students tend to be under-motivated and fail to understand many aspects of poetry. As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has been applied to education, image-GAI (iGAI) provides great opportunities for students to generate visualized images based on their descriptions of poems, and to situate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Poetry, Artificial Intelligence
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Inaltekin, Tufan; Goksu, Volkan – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2019
The aim of this study was to analyse the kinds and frequency of visual learning representations within 8th grade students' notebooks for science classes. As part of the research, 93 science notebooks which belonged to students from 13 secondary schools in Kars Province (the east of Turkey) were collected at the end of the academic year in 2018.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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Aydin, Nurullah; Börekçi, Muhsine – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using short films in Turkish lesson on visual reading skills of 7th graders. Mixed methods design was utilized. The quantitative part of the study was formed by an experimental pattern with pretest-post-test control group, and the qualitative part was a case study consisting of observation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Films
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Sulisawati, Dwi Noviani; Lutfiyah; Murtinasari, Frida; Sukma, Luzainiatus – Malikussaleh Journal of Mathematics Learning, 2019
Characteristics of students who are diverse, such as different learning styles will also lead to the possibility of differences in students' ability to understand the learning material and every problem given, especially at the stage of understanding the problem given, because this stage is the most important step to determine the next problem…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities, Aural Learning, Visual Learning
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Inaltekin, Tufan; Goksu, Volkan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The aim of this study is to analyze the types of visual representations in primary and secondary science textbooks in Turkey. The sample of the research constitutes six textbooks prepared by private publishers for primary and secondary science courses (3rd -8 th Grade) in Turkey in 2018-2019 academic year. Document analysis design, which is one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education, Textbooks
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Chen, Yu-ching – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
Motivation and math anxiety are crucial in performance and satisfaction, and augmented reality (AR) may be a useful tool in enhancing these factors because it provides users with interesting visual experiences. Since related empirical research is limited in investigating the effects of using free mobile AR apps integrating Keller's ARCS…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Simulation, Mathematics Anxiety, Visual Learning
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Özerem, Aysen; Akkoyunlu, Buket – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: While designing a learning environment it is vital to think about learner characteristics (learning styles, approaches, motivation, interests… etc.) in order to promote effective learning. The learning environment and learning process should be designed not to enable students to learn in the same manner and at the same level,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Instructional Design, Cognitive Style, Mathematics Achievement
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Watanabe, Tad – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) (CCSSI 2010) identifies the strategic use of appropriate tools as one of the mathematical practices and emphasizes the use of pictures and diagrams as reasoning tools. Starting with the early elementary grades, CCSSM discusses students' solving of problems "by drawing." In later…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students