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Marczyk, Agnieszka Aya; Jay, Lightning; Reisman, Abby – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
Engaging historiography and interpreting secondary sources represent essential elements of historians' work that have been largely ignored in favor of primary source reading in high school history classrooms in the United States. To understand whether and how students apply their historical reasoning skills to secondary sources, we asked…
Descriptors: Historiography, History Instruction, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Stieff, Mike; Hegarty, Mary; Deslongchamps, Ghislain – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
Increasingly, multi-representational educational technologies are being deployed in science classrooms to support science learning and the development of representational competence. Several studies have indicated that students experience significant challenges working with these multi-representational displays and prefer to use only one…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Visual Aids, Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry
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Lawson, Michael J.; Chinnappan, Mohan – Cognition and Instruction, 1994
The problem-solving performance of high-achieving (HA) and low-achieving (LA) 11th-grade students was compared during solution of geometry problems using a think-aloud procedure. Detailed analysis of problem-solving protocols indicated that HA students not only accessed a greater body of geometrical knowledge but also used that knowledge more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Geometry