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Diane Brothers Cook; Valerie Havill – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
A sample of 116 university students enrolled in developmental psychology courses participated in a study examining whether playing interactive video games with older adults would reduce students' misconceptions and negative stereotypes about older adults and increase their willingness to interact with older adults in the future. A service-learning…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Psychology, Intergenerational Programs, Stereotypes
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Jacob LaVoie – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
Conventional metaphors are a fundamental component of everyday communication, yet they are often overlooked in post-secondary German-language programs. This study examines the extent to which vocabulary breadth influences 19 L2 German learners' comprehension of conventional German metaphors, particularly those that exhibit cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Misconceptions, German, Second Language Learning
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Meryem Konu Kadirhanogullari; Esra Özay Köse – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
The aim of this study is to reveal the content analysis and trends of studies on misconceptions in biology education. Within the scope of the research, articles containing misconceptions about biology were accessed from the Scopus database. "Biology and misconception" was searched in the title, abstract and keywords in the Scopus…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Misconceptions, Research Reports, Content Analysis
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John Rafafy Batlolona; Jamaludin Jamaludin – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
"Marinyo" is a culture left by the Portuguese around the 15th century in Maluku. The purpose of this study was to find out to what extent students' misconceptions about the concept of sound in the "Marinyo" case in the Kepuluan Tanimbar Regency. The method used was a qualitative study in ethnography in ten villages in two…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Acoustics, Elementary School Students, Physics
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Alex Derbyshire; Saemi Lee; Sierra Cordova; George Crocker; Luciana Zuest – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2024
The increased focus on preventing obesity in physical education spaces often leads to weight-centric ideology and anti-fat attitudes that subject fat students to weight stigma and can reduce their enjoyment of and engagement in physical activity. To promote lifelong physical activity and health among students, physical educators must reexamine…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Inclusion, Physical Education, Athletics
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Jeff Witmer – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
Data reported from memory can be unreliable. A simple activity lets students experience this firsthand.
Descriptors: Memory, Trust (Psychology), Reliability, Class Activities
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Tufan Inaltekin; Ugur Akbaba – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The purpose of this study is to reveal middle school students' model understanding and information sources of incorrect model related to basic astronomy topics included in the Turkish middle school science curriculum. The study is a descriptive study focusing on qualitative data. The sample of the study includes 197 students (aged 12-13) attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Science Education
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Flanigan, Kevin; Solic, Katie; Gordon, Lisa – Reading Teacher, 2022
Educators have many questions about phonics instruction centering on topics including programs, approaches, assessment, transfer, and differentiation. We propose 8 principles to (1) help answer these common questions, (2) tackle current misconceptions, and (3) discuss research-based practices about phonics instruction.
Descriptors: Phonics, Reading Instruction, Misconceptions, Educational Principles
Pashley, Nicole E.; Miratrix, Luke W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2022
Several branches of the potential outcome causal inference literature have discussed the merits of blocking versus complete randomization. Some have concluded it can never hurt the precision of estimates, and some have concluded it can hurt. In this article, we reconcile these apparently conflicting views, give a more thorough discussion of what…
Descriptors: Research Design, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Sampling
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Konstantinidis, Angelos – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2022
Despite popular myths related to the design and development of an online course, the endeavor is rather complicated. Universal Course Shell Templates (UCSTs) can alleviate teachers' workload, support teachers in taking pedagogically sound decisions, and assist students in their engagement with the course. The study begins with a review of the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Universities, Misconceptions, Design
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Coats, Ellen M.; Farrelly, Matthew C.; Henes, Amy L.; Pikowski, Jessica M.; Brown, Elizabeth M.; Nonnemaker, James M. – Health Education Research, 2022
Current use of vaping products has increased in recent years among youth in the United States. We conducted cross-sectional surveys of vaping product users aged 15-17 in New York in 2017 and 2019 to assess vaping frequency, reported nicotine content of vaping products used, risk perceptions of vaping and openness to vaping cannabis (2019 survey…
Descriptors: Smoking, Adolescents, Risk, Attitudes
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Standley, Jeff – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
The Department for Education recently administered new Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) guidance, one of the aims of which is to foster students' ability to develop and maintain healthy romantic relationships in adulthood. However, while an education aimed at developing this capacity in young people is welcomed, the RSE guidance does not…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy, Misconceptions
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von Hippel, Paul T.; Graves, Jennifer – Education Next, 2023
After millions of American schoolchildren fell behind during the COVID-19 pandemic, some states and school districts are looking at year-round school calendars as a way to recoup lost learning. Typically, year-round calendars don't increase learning time but rather spread school days more equally across 12 months, with a shorter summer vacation…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, COVID-19
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Plucker, Jonathan A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
In 1998, Plucker and Runco provided an overview of creativity assessment, noting current issues (fluency confounds, generality vs. specificity), recent advances (predictive validity, implicit theories), and promising future directions (moving beyond divergent thinking measures, reliance on batteries of assessments, translation into practice). In…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Creative Thinking, Semantics
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Kim, Keunjae; Kwon, Kyungbin; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne; Bae, Haesol; Glazewski, Krista – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study aims to explore the middle schoolers' common naive conceptions of AI and the evolution of these conceptions during an AI summer camp. Data were collected from 14 middle school students (12 boys and 2 girls) from video observations and learning artifacts. The findings revealed 6 naive conceptions about AI concepts: (1) AI was the same as…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Misconceptions, Artificial Intelligence, Summer Programs
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