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Potvin, Patrice; Cyr, Guillaume – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
While the majority of published research on conceptual change has focused on how misconceptions can be abandoned or modified, some recent research findings support the hypothesis that acquired scientific knowledge does not necessarily erase or alter initial non-scientific knowledge but rather coexists with it. In keeping with this…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Preschool Education, Science Teachers
Ruggeri, Azzurra; Lombrozo, Tania; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Xu, Fei – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Children are active learners: they learn not only from the information people offer and the evidence they happen to observe, but by actively seeking information. However, children's information search strategies are typically less efficient than those of adults. In two studies, we isolate potential sources of developmental change in how children…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Structures
Ersanli, Ceylan Yangin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
This study aims to map the cognitive structure of pre-service English language (EL) teachers about three key concepts related to approaches and methods in language teaching so as to discover their learning process and misconceptions. The study involves both qualitative and quantitative data. The researcher administrated a Word Association Test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Maharaj, Aneshkumar – South African Journal of Education, 2013
This article reports on a study which used the APOS (action-process-object-schema) theoretical framework to investigate university students' understanding of derivatives and their applications. Research was done at the Westville Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The relevant rules for finding derivatives and their…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Schemata (Cognition), Undergraduate Students
Kurt, Hakan; Ekici, Gülay; Aktas, Murat; Aksu, Özlem – International Education Studies, 2013
The aim of the current study is to investigate student biology teachers' cognitive structures related to "diffusion" through the free word-association test and the drawing-writing technique. As the research design of the study, the qualitative research method was applied. The data were collected from 44 student biology teachers. The free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Biology, Cognitive Structures
Parker, Jan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
It is urgent that we re-examine models of knowledge and knowledge-making within the university, at this time of open learning and deregulated multi-million dollar and euro open science hubs and portals. For otherwise, we are bound into "crude" instrumentalism, "delivering" "knowledge packets" rather than seeing our…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Groth, Randall E.; Bergner, Jennifer A. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
This report describes a model for mapping cognitive structures related to content knowledge for teaching. The model consists of knowledge elements pertinent to teaching a content domain, the nature of the connections among them, and a means for representing the elements and connections visually. The model is illustrated through empirical data…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Preservice Teachers
Lourenço, Fernando; Sappleton, Natalie; Cheng, Ranis – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
The authors examined the following questions: Does gender influence the ethicality of enterprise students to a greater extent than it does nascent entrepreneurs? If this is the case, then is it due to factors associated with adulthood such as age, work experience, marital status, and parental status? Sex-role socialization theory and moral…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Values, Gender Differences
Mamolo, Ami; Pali, Rebeka – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2014
This article examines pre-service secondary school teachers' responses to a learning situation that presented a student's struggle with determining the area of an irregular hexagon. Responses were analyzed in terms of participants' evoked concept images as related to their knowledge at the mathematical horizon, with attention paid…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics
Eren, Fetah; Sahin, Ismail; Celik, Ismail; Akturk, Ahmet Oguz – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this study is to discover secondary school students' perceptions related to information technologies and the connections between concepts in their cognitive structures. A word association test consisting of six concepts related to information technologies is used to collect data from 244 secondary school students. Concept maps that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Information Technology
Lakens, Daniel; Semin, Gun R.; Foroni, Francesco – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Light and dark are used pervasively to represent positive and negative concepts. Recent studies suggest that black and white stimuli are automatically associated with negativity and positivity. However, structural factors in experimental designs, such as the shared opposition in the valence (good vs. bad) and brightness (light vs. dark) dimensions…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Color, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Structures
Corpuz, Edgar D.; Rebello, N. Sanjay – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2011
In this paper, we discuss the first phase of a multiphase study aimed at investigating the dynamics of students' knowledge construction in the context of unfamiliar physical phenomenon--microscopic friction. The first phase of this study involved the investigation of the variations in students' mental models of microscopic friction. Clinical…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Cognitive Structures, College Students
Thompson, Ross A. – Future of Children, 2014
Children's early social experiences shape their developing neurological and biological systems for good or for ill, writes Ross Thompson, and the kinds of stressful experiences that are endemic to families living in poverty can alter children's neurobiology in ways that undermine their health, their social competence, and their ability…
Descriptors: Child Development, Stress Variables, Social Experience, Early Experience
Mumford, Michael D.; Hester, Kimberly S.; Robledo, Issac C.; Peterson, David R.; Day, Eric A.; Hougen, Dean F.; Barrett, Jamie D. – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
Knowledge, or expertise, has been held to contribute to creative problem-solving. In this effort, the relationship of one form of knowledge, mental models, to creative problem-solving was assessed. Undergraduates were asked to solve either a marketing or an education problem calling for creative thought. Prior to generating solutions to these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students
Opfer, John E.; Nehm, Ross H.; Ha, Minsu – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
To improve assessments of academic achievement, test developers have been urged to use an "assessment triangle" that starts with research-based models of cognition and learning [NRC (2001) "Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment." Washington, DC: National Academy Press]. This approach has been successful in…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Evolution, Biology, Test Construction