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Shar, Kelli; Russ, Rosemary S.; Laverty, James T. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Assessments are usually thought of as ways for instructors to get information from students. In this work, we flip this perspective and explore how assessments communicate information to students. Specifically, we consider how assessments may provide information about what faculty and/or researchers think it means to know and do physics, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Science Instruction, Physics, Science Tests
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Modir, Bahar; Thompson, John D.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Students' difficulties in quantum mechanics may be the result of unproductive framing and not a fundamental inability to solve the problems or misconceptions about physics content. We observed groups of students solving quantum mechanics problems in an upper-division physics course. Using the lens of epistemological framing, we investigated four…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Problem Solving, Quantum Mechanics, Physics
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Bloch-Schulman, Stephen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2016
The goal in this article is to offer a vision for a scholarship of philosophical learning that philosophers find plausible and helpful and that utilizes our disciplinary skills and knowledge to produce useful insights into how students learn philosophy. Doing so is a challenge because philosophers typically and historically conceive of our work as…
Descriptors: Criticism, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
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Jay, Lightning – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
After three decades of scholarship describing why and how students ought to be taught to think historically, this study asks what happens when they are. Ten high school students from a school that incorporated historical thinking into all history coursework repeated the think-aloud task from Wineburg's 1991 study of the cognitive processes…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Protocol Analysis
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Henderson, J. Bryan; MacPherson, Anna; Osborne, Jonathan; Wild, Andrew – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This paper argues that science education has overemphasized the importance of construction at the expense of critique. In doing so, it draws on two key premises--Ford's argument that the construction of knowledge requires a dialectic between construction and critique and Mercier and Sperber's theory of argumentative reasoning that critique is…
Descriptors: Role, Science Education, Epistemology, Literacy
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Mercan, Fatih Caglayan – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
This study examines the epistemic beliefs about justification employed by physics undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the context of solving a standard classical physics problem and a frontier physics problem. Data were collected by a think-aloud problem solving session followed by a semi-structured interview conducted with 50…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Protocol Analysis, College Students
Maggioni, Liliana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Building on the literature on epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and historical thinking, three class-level case studies were conducted to investigate features of historical thinking and history-specific epistemic beliefs of high-school students and their teachers. These cases also considered teachers' pedagogical practices and the potential…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Teaching Methods, History, Investigations
Crawford, Pamela Sharp – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This was a qualitative case study that compared data across six district-level literacy coaches' epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading. All six coaches were working as a cohort of literacy coaches on the development and implementation of a secondary reading intervention program for seventh-grade struggling readers.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods, Vignettes
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Shawer, Saad – Curriculum Journal, 2010
This investigation examined the influence of EFL student teacher self-regulation of learning (SRL) on their curricular content-knowledge and course-design skills. Positivism guided this study at the levels of: ontology (one form of reality); epistemology (detachment from the subjects); and methodology, using nomothetic research strategy (causal…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Protocol Analysis, Achievement Tests, Data Analysis
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Jones, Ken; McLean, Monica; Amigoni, David; Kinsman, Margaret – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2005
Two university English seminars were video-recorded to provide data for a pilot project investigating how English is produced or "actualized" in teaching and learning encounters. The project is positioned within three contexts: national policy about higher education teaching; current research about higher education pedagogy; and, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pilot Projects, Protocol Analysis, Protocol Materials