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Direct linkChattoe-Brown, Edmund – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
This article argues that Agent-Based Modelling, owing to its capabilities and methodology, has a distinctive contribution to make to delivering coherent social science prediction. The argument has four parts. The first identifies key elements of social science prediction induced from real research across disciplines, thus avoiding a straw person…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Models, Evaluation Methods, Social Science Research
Solop, Frederic I.; Anderson, Haley N.; Barsky, Christina; Schnurr, Emily; Witlacil, Mary – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Client-Focused Research (CFR) offers an approach to teaching research methods that brings classes into a professional environment by working directly with nonprofit or public sector clients. Students work with clients to define the scope of the research project, design the research methodology, create data collection instruments, gather and…
Descriptors: Political Science, Teaching Methods, Models, Educational Benefits
Download full textJeanna de Haan-Topolscak; Merle Ebskamp; Pauline Vos-de Tombe – Design and Technology Education, 2024
This pilot study investigates the way that young students and teachers of a Dutch Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) secondary school subject Research and Design (R&D) reason about the concept of 'model'. The core of the Dutch Technasium secondary school course Research and Design curriculum (R&D is in Dutch called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education
Veri, Francesco – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article aims to clarify fundamental aspects of the process of assigning fuzzy scores to conditions based on family resemblance (FR) structures by considering prototype and set theories. Prototype theory and set theory consider FR structures from two different angles. Specifically, set theory links the conceptualization of FR to the idea of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Theories, Concept Formation, Models
Winkelmann, Jan – Science & Education, 2023
Idealizations are omnipresent in science. However, to date, science education research has paid surprisingly little attention to the use of idealizations in fostering students' model competence and understanding of the nature of science (NOS). The starting point for the theoretical reflection in this paper is that insufficient consideration of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Educational Research, Science Instruction
Giacomo Zuccarini; Massimiliano Malgieri – Science & Education, 2024
Most educational literature on conceptual change concerns the process by which introductory students acquire scientific knowledge. However, with modern developments in science and technology, the social significance of learning successive theories is steadily increasing, thus opening new areas of interest to discipline-based education research,…
Descriptors: Models, Concept Formation, Theories, Educational Research
Jeffery, Kathleen A.; Pelaez, Nancy; Anderson, Trevor R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
To keep biochemistry instruction current and relevant, it is crucial to expose students to cutting-edge scientific research and how experts reason about processes governed by thermodynamics and kinetics such as protein folding and dynamics. This study focuses on how experts explain their research into this topic with the intention of informing…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Thermodynamics
Chijioke, Onah Celestine; Ikechukwu, Asadu; Aloysius, Aduma – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
The role theory plays in research work cannot be over-emphasized. A theory that is apt gives direction to research work in explaining, organizing, analyzing, and predicting phenomenon and showing their relationships in order to enhance understanding. Despite these roles played by theory, upcoming scholars and students many at times fail to use…
Descriptors: Theories, Social Science Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Definitions
Potvin, Patrice; Nenciovici, Lucian; Malenfant-Robichaud, Guillaume; Thibault, François; Sy, Ousmane; Mahhou, Mohamed Amine; Bernard, Alex; Allaire-Duquette, Geneviève; Blanchette Sarrasin, Jérémie; Brault Foisy, Lorie-Marlène; Brouillette, Nancy; St-Aubin, Audrey-Anne; Charland, Patrick; Masson, Steve; Riopel, Martin; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Bélanger, Michel; Chastenay, Pierre – Studies in Science Education, 2020
In this article, we propose an analysis of the state of, and trends in, the field of conceptual change research in science education through the lens of its models. Using a quantitative approach, we reviewed all conceptual change articles (n = 245) published in five major journals in the field of science education in search of the support that…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Science Instruction, Science Education
Fry, Elizabeth Brondos – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recommended learning goals for students in introductory statistics courses include the ability to recognize and explain the key role of randomness in designing studies and in drawing conclusions from those studies involving generalizations to a population or causal claims (GAISE College Report ASA Revision Committee, 2016). The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Concept Formation, Sampling
Provost, Amanda; Lim, Su San; York, Toni; Panorkou, Nicole – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
The frequentist and classical models of probability provide students with different lenses through which they can view probability. Prior research showed that students may bridge these two lenses through instructional designs that begin with a clear connection between the two, such as coin tossing. Considering that this connection is not always…
Descriptors: Probability, Models, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
D'Eon, Marcel; Yasinian, Maryam – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
In this article, we propose a new model of student workload. We conducted an extensive literature review of student workload, its impact on students' lives, factors influencing student workload, objective and subjective measurements. The previous conceptualizations of student workload conflate student work and course workload, two related but…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Barriers
Galbraith, David; Baaijen, Veerle M. – Educational Psychologist, 2018
This article proposes that two processes are involved in the generation of content during writing: (a) an active, knowledge-constituting process in which content is synthesized by constraints within semantic memory representing the implicit structure of the writer's understanding, and (b) a reflective, knowledge-transforming process in which…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Cognitive Processes, Reflection, Concept Formation
Trowler, Paul – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This paper considers how the idea of "discipline" can best be conceptualised, both in general and particular terms. Much previous research has employed a strong essentialist approach, a model of disciplines which exaggerates the homogeneity of specific disciplinary features and accords disciplines generative powers which they rarely…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intellectual Disciplines, Concept Formation, Research Design
Galoyan, Tamara; Betts, Kristen – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2021
Transfer of knowledge, skills, and experience is critical in an increasingly competitive knowledge-based global economy. Research indicates major issues relating to transfer of learning, including (a) the complex nature of transfer, (b) the multiple variables affecting transfer, and (c) the limited knowledge of instructional methodologies for…
Descriptors: Models, Transfer of Training, Higher Education, Concept Formation
