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Milne, Catherine – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Identifies four different types of science stories: (1) heroic; (2) discovery; (3) declarative; and (4) politically correct. Examines the philosophical assumptions that underpin heroic science stories. Considers the implications of these stories in the science classroom. Contains 33 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
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Ault, Charles R., Jr. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Reports on the application of Gowin's epistemology to examples from geological inquiry which yield criteria of excellence responsive to the demands characteristic of geological problems. Supporting this approach is a case study about how geologists apply analogies. Contains 33 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Geology
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; McGinn, Michelle K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998
Discusses how scientific knowledge emerges from social, natural, political, cultural, historical, and economic contingencies of scientific work. Illustrates the advantages of familiarity with research in science and technology. Contains 96 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
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Kipnis, Nahum – Science and Education, 1998
Argues that discussing theories, including their origin, development and replacement by other theories, can help students understand both the objective and subjective aspects of the scientific process. (DDR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Representation, Models, Philosophy
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Kostro, Ludwik – Science and Education, 1998
Argues that Albert Einstein preceded Karl Popper in formulating the fundamental premises of hypothetism. Presents the original text and ideas from an article published by Einstein in 1919. (DDR)
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation
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Odom, A. Louis; Kelly, Paul V. – Science Teacher, 1998
Discusses two theories of cognitive development, Ausubel's theory of verbal learning and Piaget's development theory. Illustrates that both concept mapping and the learning cycle are rooted in these two theories. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Elementary Secondary Education
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Garber, Philip; Alibali, Martha Wagner; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 1998
Investigated whether fourth-graders' gestures convey knowledge self-recognizable in another context. Identified math problem-solving procedures conveyed gesturally and examined whether the procedures could be accessed by the same child on a task not involving gesture. Children rated higher those solutions derived from procedures they conveyed…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Blanco, Rafael; Niaz, Mansoor – Science and Education, 1998
Reconstructs students' and teachers' understanding of the structure of the atom based on a framework characterized by considering the history of science as competing research programs and by believing that some great scientific research programs progress on inconsistent foundations. Contains 107 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Atomic Structure, Atomic Theory, Chemistry, Concept Formation
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Fritch, John W.; Cromwell, Robert L. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Traditional methods of authority present in a print environment are lacking on the Internet, and, even when occasionally present, are of questionable veracity. A formal model and evaluative criteria are suggested and explained to provide a means for accurately ascribing cognitive authority in a networked environment; the model is unique in its…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Information Networks
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Jensen, William B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1998
Presents the first of three invited keynote lectures from the 1995 conference of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers. Discusses the relevance of the history of chemistry to the teaching of chemistry. Contains 27 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Curriculum, Course Content, Higher Education
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Dee-Lucas, Diana; Larkin, Jill Huston – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1999
Describes a study of undergraduates that examined the potential trade-off in study efficiency and breadth of learning for hypertexts studied by selecting units from a content map. Compares study strategies and text recall with a more- and less-segmented hypertext and discusses text representations, study times, knowledge representation, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Knowledge Representation
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Chalmers, Matthew – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Presents a broad view of information access, drawing from philosophy and semiology in constructing a framework for comparative discussion that is used to examine the information representations that underlie four approaches to information access--information retrieval, workflow, collaborative filtering, and the path model. Contains 32 references.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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Tao, Ping-Kee – International Journal of Science Education, 2001
Explores high school students' collaborative efforts in solving qualitative physics problems and investigates how and whether confronting students with varying views improves problem solving skills. (Contains 22 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, High Schools, Knowledge Representation
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Westera, Wim; van den Herik, Jaap; van de Vrie, Evert – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2004
The field of higher education shows a jumble of alliances between fellow institutes. The alliances are strategic in kind and serve an economy-of-scales concept. A large scale is a prerequisite for allocating the budgets for new educational methods and technologies in order to keep the educational services up-to-date. All too often, however,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Consortia
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Dunlap, Joanna C. – TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 2004
The Web Resource Collaboration Center (WRCC) is a web-based tool developed to help software engineers build their own web-based learning and performance support systems. Designed using various online communication and collaboration technologies, the WRCC enables people to: (1) build a learning and professional development resource that provides…
Descriptors: Internet, Cooperation, Computer Software, Professional Development
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