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Irving, Paul W.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
We use the theory of communities of practice and the concept of accountable disciplinary knowledge to describe how a learning community develops in the context of an upper-division physics laboratory course. The change in accountable disciplinary knowledge motivates students' enculturation into a community of practice. The enculturation process is…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Communities of Practice, Time Factors (Learning)
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Krange, I.; Ludvigsen, Sten – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
This article is a methodological contribution to the use of design experiments in educational research. We will discuss the implications of a historical and situated interpretation to design experiments, the consequences this has for the analysis of the collected data and empirically based suggestions to improve the designs of the computer-based…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interaction Process Analysis, Data Analysis, Teaching Methods
Tisher, R. P. – Classroom Interaction Newsletter, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Experiments, Interaction Process Analysis
Taba, Hilda – 1966
To test the hypothesis that if given a curriculum designed to develop cognitive functioning and taught by strategies designed to develop cognitive skills, students would then master more sophisticated symbolic thought earlier and more systematically than could be expected if this development had been left to the accidents of experience or if…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests