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El Razonamiento de Profesoras en Formación Acerca de la Variación en Situaciones de Riesgo = Preservice Teachers' Reasoning about Variation in Risk Situations
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Orta Amaro, José Antonio; Sánchez Sánchez, Ernesto A.; Ramírez-Esperón, María Eugenia – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
The aim of this investigation is to explore the preservice teachers' reasoning about variation (variability or spread) when they analyze data in situations that involve risk. In particular, in this communication the responses to two problems of a questionnaire administered to 96 preservice teachers are reported. The problems are of comparing…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Abstract Reasoning, Data Analysis
Evaluation of Intercultural Instructional Multimedia Material on Implicit Xenophobic Cognition: Short Time Effects on Implicit Information Processing
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Zumbach, Joerg; Schrangl, Gerhard; Mortensen, Chad; Moser, Stephanie – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
Considering xenophobic attacks against foreigners and ethnic or religious motivated wars, there is a need for educational concepts to extinguish xenophobia. A model describing the cognitive processes involved in Xenophobic cognition was developed. Instructional multimedia material that discussed various forms of alienation was developed and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Multimedia Materials, Instructional Material Evaluation, Stranger Reactions
An Experimental Investigation of Peer Influences on Adolescent Hostile Attributions
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Freeman, Kim; Hadwin, Julie A.; Halligan, Sarah L. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
Aggression in young people has been associated with a bias toward attributing hostile intent to others. However, little is known about the origin of biased social information processing. The current study explored the potential role of peer contagion in the emergence of hostile attribution in adolescents. One hundred thirty-four adolescents (M age…
Descriptors: Aggression, Adolescents, Peer Influence, Information Processing
Language Learner Strategy Use and Test Performance of Chinese Learners of English
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Song, Xiaomei; Cheng, Liying – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This article examines language learner strategy use reported by 121 Chinese learners of English through a questionnaire and the relationships between their strategy use and language performance on a national English proficiency test: College English Test-Band 4. Results showed that this group of learners reported using more metacognitive…
Descriptors: College English, Achievement Tests, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
Users' Information Behaviour--A Gender Perspective
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Steinerová, Jela; Šušol, Jaroslav – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2007
Introduction: The paper is based on the study of library users in Slovakia as part of a larger research project on the use of information. Method: A large-scale questionnaire survey was conducted in 2002 in sixteen academic and research libraries with 793 subjects, especially students and educators. Analysis: The data were analysed with the use of…
Descriptors: Users (Information), Questionnaires, Surveys, Research Libraries
The Information Needs, Usage and Attitudes of Medical Researchers in Australia. First Report to the National Library of Australia.
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Maguire, Carmel; Lovelace, Eugenia – 1975
Approximately 300 Australian users and non-users of the biomedical computerized data base, MEDLARS, were surveyed by mailed questionnaire in an attempt to determine the needs of present and potential users of the system and their prior experiences with computerized as well as other information services. Results of the survey reveal: (1) an…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Needs