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Wei, Ge; Chung, Chi-yang – ECNU Review of Education, 2023
Purpose: This study explores the achievements and process of a group of Chinese primary school teachers learning from a research-based school-university collaborative project. Design/Approach/Methods: We used qualitative methods to construct our research design, collecting data through participatory observations of weekly meetings, teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, College School Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers, Meetings
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DeLiema, David; Kwon, Yejin Angela; Chisholm, Andrea; Williams, Immanuel; Dahn, Maggie; Flood, Virginia J.; Abrahamson, Dor; Steen, Francis F. – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
When teachers, researchers, and students describe productively responding to moments of failure in the learning process, what might this mean? Blending prior theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between failure and learning, and empirical results from four data sets that are part of a larger design-based research project, we…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Learning Processes, Correlation, Failure
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Roorda, Gerrit; Vos, Pauline; Goedhart, Martin J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
This article reports on a longitudinal observation study about students' development in their use of procedures to calculate instantaneous rate of change. Different procedures for solving tasks on rate of change are taught in mathematics and physics classes, and together they form a repertoire. Our study took an actor-oriented perspective, which…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Secondary School Mathematics, Calculus
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Nabiyeva, Shelale Z. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The study aims at analysis an educational and informative competence, describing the components of schoolchildren's educational and informative activity and submitting an efficient set of exercises resulted from the educational and informative activity component analysis. The relevance of the study is determined by modernization of an educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Competence, Native Language
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English, Lyn D.; King, Donna T. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: Internationally, there is a growing concern for developing STEM education to prepare students for a scientifically and technologically advanced society. Despite educational bodies lobbying for an increased focus on STEM, there is limited research on how engineering might be incorporated especially in the elementary school curriculum. A…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering, Design, Elementary School Science
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Carini, Patricia F. – Childhood Education, 1973
Analyzes the effect recordkeeping has when it is designed to assess children's problem-solving and thinking processes over time. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Educational Objectives
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Breuer, Klaus; Kummer, Ruediger – Computers in Human Behavior, 1990
Discusses content learning versus process learning, describes process learning with computer-based simulations, and highlights an empirical study on the effects of process learning with problem-oriented, computer-managed simulations in technical vocational education classes in West Germany. Process learning within a model of the cognitive system…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
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Maher, Carolyn A.; And Others – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1991
A longitudinal study followed Brian from grade five through grade seven to examine his representation and development of mathematical knowledge. Some observations over the four years were that Brian liked to figure things out, responded poorly to suggestions not fitting the representation he constructed, and changed attitudes from purposeful and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Mathematics at the Centre." This volume features 60 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Abr…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Textbooks