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Shuang Li; Xinyi He; Jiaqi Chen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
To inform the relationships among interaction patterns, social capital accumulation, and learning benefits, based on 29,056 log data from a cMOOC (Connectivist Massive Open Online Course) in China, this study examined the difference in social capital accumulation and content production among different interaction patterns using cluster analysis,…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Capacity Building, Interpersonal Competence, Foreign Countries
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Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
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Tang, Xiaowei; Elby, Andrew; Hammer, David – Science Education, 2020
Through analysis of a classroom lesson led by a decorated teacher, we illustrate how instructional practices favor students seeking empirical patterns at the expense of using mechanistic reasoning. In the lesson, when students spontaneously come up with hypothetical mechanisms to explain why a light bulb in an electric circuit does or does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pattern Recognition, Logical Thinking, Concept Formation
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Yang, Juan; Huang, Zhi Xing; Gao, Yue Xiang; Liu, Hong Tao – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2014
During the past decade, personalized e-learning systems and adaptive educational hypermedia systems have attracted much attention from researchers in the fields of computer science Aand education. The integration of learning styles into an intelligent system is a possible solution to the problems of "learning deviation" and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pattern Recognition, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Prediction
Terauchi, Hajime, Ed.; Noguchi, Judy, Ed.; Tajino, Akira, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
This book proposes a new paradigm for English language teaching based on concepts from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and applications as well as from growing evidence relating pattern recognition to language learning ability. The contributors to the volume argue that learners should not try to become proficient all-around users of…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Slingerland, Edward; Chudek, Maciej – Cognitive Science, 2012
We respond to several important and valid concerns about our study ("The Prevalence of Folk Dualism in Early China," "Cognitive Science" 35: 997-1007) by Klein and Klein, defending our interpretation of our data. We also argue that, despite the undeniable challenges involved in qualitatively coding texts from ancient cultures,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Coding, Time
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DeBoer, Jennifer – Peabody Journal of Education, 2012
As detailed in the articles throughout this issue, the U.S. education system experienced a number of structural developments throughout the 20th century. These changes served to shift the landscape of decision-making authority in multiple areas of primary and secondary schooling. This article provides an international perspective on the changes…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Comparative Education, Global Approach
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Armstrong, Stephen; Desrosiers, Marian – Social Education, 2012
A visitor to a random sampling of Modern World History classes in the United States will find that the subject of "revolution" is a favorite for many students. Reading about and researching individuals and topics such as Tsar Nicholas II, Rasputin, Marie Antoinette and guillotines is never boring. Unfortunately, in too many classrooms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, History Instruction, College Instruction
Liu, Bin; Bi, Qing-sheng – Online Submission, 2010
The Verhulst model can be used to forecast the sequence, which is characterized as non-monotone and fluctuant sequence or saturated S-form sequence. According to the situation of national enrollment scale of college, this paper forecasts the quantity of students taking entrance examination to college with a Verhulst model with remedy based on data…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Models, College Entrance Examinations
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Swetz, Frank – Mathematics Teacher, 1978
The origin of the magic square, its numerical concepts, and some procedures for its construction are discussed. (JT)
Descriptors: History, Mathematical Enrichment, Number Concepts, Numbers
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Xiao, Jin; Tsang, Mun C. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2004
In the fast-growing market-oriented economy of Shenzhen, China, most employees have continued to participate in job-related education and training. We argue that as firms have acquired autonomy in their operations and individuals have gained the right to pursue their personal occupational aspirations, non-state-sponsored education and training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Aspiration, Job Training, Participation
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 43 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Adl…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Research Reports, Symbols (Mathematics)