NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)2
Since 2006 (last 20 years)7
Audience
Teachers1
Location
Sweden9
Ghana1
Japan1
Latvia1
Malaysia1
Russia1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Peabody Picture Vocabulary…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 9 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Euler, Elias; Rådahl, Elmer; Gregorcic, Bor – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
In this paper, we present a case study of a pair of students as they use nondisciplinary communicative practices to mechanistically reason about binary star dynamics. To do so, we first review and bring together the theoretical perspectives of social semiotics and embodied cognition, therein developing a new methodological approach for analyzing…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Logical Thinking, Semiotics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Holm, Linus; Ullen, Fredrik; Madison, Guy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
We investigated the causal role of executive control functions in the production of brief time intervals by means of a concurrent task paradigm. To isolate the influence of executive functions on timing from motor coordination effects, we dissociated executive load from the number of effectors used in the dual task situation. In 3 experiments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Executive Function, Time
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gustafson, Stefan; Samuelsson, Christina; Johansson, Ellinor; Wallmann, Julia – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
According to the Simple View of Reading, reading ability can be divided into decoding and language comprehension. In the present study, decoding and comprehension's contribution to reading ability was studied both in children with reading difficulties and in children with typical reading ability. Decoding and comprehension was further divided into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bivall, Petter; Ainsworth, Shaaron; Tibell, Lena A. E. – Science Education, 2011
This study explored whether adding a haptic interface (that provides users with somatosensory information about virtual objects by force and tactile feedback) to a three-dimensional (3D) chemical model enhanced students' understanding of complex molecular interactions. Two modes of the model were compared in a between-groups pre- and posttest…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Science Instruction, Tactual Perception, Educational Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Taber, Keith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
Many studies into learners' ideas in science have reported that aspects of learners' thinking can be represented in terms of entities described in such terms as alternative conceptions or conceptual frameworks, which are considered to describe relatively stable aspects of conceptual knowledge that are represented in the learner's memory and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Misconceptions, Models, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ehrlen, Karin – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
Visual representations play an important role in science teaching. The way in which visual representations may help children to acquire scientific concepts is a crucial test in the debate between constructivist and socio-cultural oriented researchers. In this paper, the question is addressed as a problem of how to contextualize conceptions and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Cultural Context
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Pettersson, Rune – 1993
The act of communicating is not complete until the message is received and understood by the audience. This paper focuses on formulating messages for comprehensibility, in a discussion that is fundamentally applicable to all media. The ability to understand a verbovisual message depends on its readability, legibility, and its reading value.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Foreign Countries
Waern, Yvonne – 1976
It is suggested that a reader's idea structure will affect processing of incoming information. Two aspects of the idea structure are further developed--the truth value aspect and the analytic level aspect. The idea structure can be characterized by ideas consisting of propositions which are considered to be more or less true or false (beliefs), or…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension