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Melis Arzu Uyulgan; Nalan Akkuzu Güven – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2024
The primary aims of environmental education and courses at universities are for students to develop an environmental mentality and to be able to apply that mindset to solving real-world issues. In this study, pre-service elementary students participated in active learning environments through creating educational radio program activities by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Environmental Education
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Erdem, Aliye – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Mind map, which was developed by Tony Buzan as a note-taking technique, is an application which has the power of uncovering the thoughts which the brain has about a subject from different viewpoints and which activate the right and left lobes of the brain together as an alternative to linear thought. It is known that mind maps have benefits such…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning
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Shallcross, David C. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2016
Concept maps are used to assess student and cohort learning of sustainable development. The concept maps of 732 first-year engineering students were individually analyzed to detect patterns of learning and areas that were not well understood. Students were given 20 minutes each to prepare a concept map of at least 20 concepts using paper and pen.…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Sustainable Development, Taxonomy, Classification
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Oh, Jun-Young; Lee, Hyonyong; Lee, Sung-Soon – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2017
Background: Kuhn's model of science has been widely influential, but in this paper, it is argued that it is more appropriate to consider constructivist learning within science education as a research program in the sense used by Lakatos. Purpose/Hypothesis: This study offers teaching strategies and their corresponding instructional sequences based…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Elementary School Curriculum, Preservice Teacher Education
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Williams, Marian H. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Mind Mapping has predominantly been used by individuals or collaboratively in groups as a paper-based or computer-generated learning strategy. In an effort to make Mind Mapping kinesthetic, collaborative, and three-dimensional, an innovative pedagogical strategy, termed Physical Webbing, was devised. In the Physical Web activity, groups…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping
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Winton, Sue – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Constructing a policy web of relationships is proposed as a useful way to identify and understand complex relationships between policies and their contexts. In Canada, the province of Ontario's "Character Development Initiative" (CDI) and its relationships to student achievement, citizenship education, and safe schools policies provide…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Personality, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
McAleese, Ray – 1998
This paper explains the process of creating and managing concept maps, using reflection as a focus for its argument. Section 1, What is a Concept Map?, highlights the background and definition of concept mapping, explains how maps signify virtual conceptual structures, looks at structural knowledge, provides an example of a concept map, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
McAleese, Ray; Grabinger, Scott; Fisher, Kathleen – 1999
This paper uses a theoretical framework for concept mapping as an instance of a learning environment - the knowledge arena - and examines it against an existing framework for active learning called REAL (Rich Environment for Active Learning). The paper is intended to help in the understanding of environments for learning. Section 1 defines a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Pomson, Alex D. M.; Hoz, Ron – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1998
Describes the use of cognitive mapping to identify historical conceptions by examining whether adolescents' historical knowledge can be characterized according to distinctions between critical and traditional orientations. Presents three "ideal conceptions'" of Jewish history: (1) theological; (2) sociological; and (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Concept Mapping, Critical Thinking
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Huai, Heling – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1997
Describes the current situation of teaching and learning in China and the features of biology science; reviews existing theories of cognitive and learning styles as well as concept mapping. A Concept Mapping Training Course is outlined which incorporates concept mapping into biology learning. Students' different cognitive styles are taken into…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Kilic, Ziya – Online Submission, 2004
Student-centered approach of scoring the concept maps consisted of three elements namely symbol system, individual portfolio and scoring scheme. We scored student-constructed concept maps based on 5 concept map criteria: validity of concepts, adequacy of propositions, significance of cross-links, relevancy of examples, and interconnectedness. With…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Validity, Prior Learning, Achievement Tests
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Gold, John R.; Coaffee, Jon – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1998
Describes the use of concept mapping in teaching complex notions in urban geography. Discusses the nature and characteristics of concept mapping, course context, three experimental exercises, and student responses in evaluations. Finds that concept-mapping techniques increased students' understanding. Emphasizes the continuing potential of this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Concept Teaching
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Irez, Serhat – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
Teacher beliefs have become important constructs in educational research with the recognition that beliefs are the best indicators of teachers' planning, decision-making and subsequent classroom behaviour. In this movement many probes and strategies have been employed by researchers for effective data collection and analysis. This paper discusses…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Foreign Countries, Educational Research
Chou, Chien; Lin, Hua – 1997
A study of first-year college students (n=121) in Taiwan investigated the effects of navigation maps and learner cognitive styles on performance in searches for information, estimation of course scope, and the development of cognitive maps within a hypertext learning course. Students were tested to determine level of perceptual field dependence…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Style, College Students, Computer Networks
Cunliffe, Annette – 1994
A longitudinal case study was conducted to explore changes in how beginning science teachers conceptualize science teaching. The current study explored the development of two of these teachers who were chosen because of their contrasting levels of expertise after their first semester of independent teaching. The research was designed to elicit the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Case Studies