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Kurt, Hakan; Ekici, Gulay; Aktas, Murat; Aksu, Ozlem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
In researches, the subject of respiration has been determined to be among subjects about whom participants from all educational levels struggle to form their cognitive structures and have many alternative conceptions. This research was carried out in order to determine biology student teachers' cognitive structures and alternative conceptions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Biology, Science Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Kinchin, Ian M. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2013
The visualisation of knowledge structures through concept mapping can be employed to reveal critical links between theory and practice. This allows consideration of particular disciplinary knowledge structures and the active role of the student in manipulating these structures to gain understanding, in a manner that can encourage students to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Concept Mapping, Research Methodology
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Vilela, Denise Silva – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2010
This article examines the extent to which Wittgenstein's analytical framework may be relevant to philosophical reflection on ethnomathematics. The discussion develops Bill Barton's suggestion that a philosophical basis for the ethnomathematical program should include and explain culturally different mathematics systems, and the coexistence of…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Relationship, Culture, Cognitive Structures
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LeCroy, Craig Winston – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
This article addresses efforts to build social work research in a manner consistent with good science and research. A critical perspective is applied to examine what does not work in building knowledge and how social work research can address factors that limit knowledge building. A critical perspective is imperative to social work knowledge…
Descriptors: Social Work, Grants, Criticism, Critical Thinking
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Batzli, Janet M.; Smith, Amber R.; Williams, Paul H.; McGee, Seth A.; Dosa, Katalin; Pfammatter, Jesse – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
Genetics instruction in introductory biology is often confined to Mendelian genetics and avoids the complexities of variation in quantitative traits. Given the driving question "What determines variation in phenotype (Pv)? (Pv=Genotypic variation Gv + environmental variation Ev)," we developed a 4-wk unit for an inquiry-based laboratory…
Descriptors: Genetics, Units of Study, Plants (Botany), Statistical Analysis
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Ifenthaler, Dirk – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
A considerable amount of research has been undertaken to provide insights into the valid assessment of team performance. However, in many settings, manual and therefore labor-intensive assessment instruments for team performance have limitations. Therefore, automated assessment instruments enable more flexible and detailed insights into the…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Performance, Visualization, Knowledge Representation
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Clegg, Sue – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
This paper calls into question the idea that we can simply think about higher education as a research field and explores different meanings of the term field. It asks whether there are related fields: research into higher education, academic development and disciplinary teaching research, rather than one. The approach of the paper is conceptual,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Classification, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education
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Jimoyiannis, Athanassios – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2011
Introductory programming seems far from being successful at both university and high school levels. Research data already published offer significant knowledge regarding university students' deficiencies in computer programming and the alternative representations they built about abstract programming constructs. However, secondary education…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Computer Science Education, Programming, Cognitive Structures
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Ifenthaler, Dirk; Seel, Norbert M. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Cognitive scientists have studied internal cognitive structures, processes, and systems for decades in order to understand how they function in human learning. Nevertheless, questions concerning the diagnosis of changes in these cognitive structures while solving inductive reasoning tasks are still being scrutinized. This paper reports findings…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Cognitive Structures, Logical Thinking, Probability
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Page, C. Steven; Kemp, Andrew T. – Educational Forum, 2013
Anyone involved in education gets a sense that, as teachers gain experience, they begin to lose the idealism they once had. The idealism found in preservice teachers (wanting to change the world and affect lives) is soon altered by the reality of the profession. The purpose of this study was to determine the philosophical beliefs that preservice…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Beliefs, Educational Philosophy
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Kremer, Kerstin; Specht, Christiane; Urhahne, Detlef; Mayer, Jürgen – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
Informed understandings of nature of science and scientific inquiry are generally accepted goals of biology education. This article points out central features of scientific inquiry with relation to biology and the nature of science in general terms and focuses on the relationship of students' inquiry skills in biology and their beliefs on the…
Descriptors: Biology, Scientific Principles, Inquiry, Beliefs
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Vitterso, Joar; Soholt, Yngvil; Hetland, Audun; Thoresen, Irina Alekseeva; Roysamb, Espen – Social Indicators Research, 2010
The article proposes a functional approach as a framework for the analysis of human well-being. The model posits that the adaptive role of hedonic feelings is to regulate stability and homeostasis in human systems, and that these feelings basically are created in states of equilibrium or assimilation. To regulate change and growth, a distinct set…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Disabilities, School Effectiveness, Well Being
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Ifenthaler, Dirk; Lehmann, Thomas – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2012
This study investigates the effect of "preactional self-regulation" on the quality of problem solving. The experimental study was realized in a problem-based self-regulated learning environment. Data of 78 participants on externalized mental models, re-representing the problem solutions, were collected. A computer-based analysis tool was…
Descriptors: Self Management, Problem Solving, Problem Based Learning, Expertise
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Berland, Leema K.; Hammer, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
In recent years, research on students' scientific argumentation has progressed to a recognition of nascent resources: Students can and do argue when they experience the need and possibility of persuading others who may hold competing views. Our purpose in this article is to contribute to this progress by applying the perspective of framing to the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Cognitive Structures, Grade 6, Thinking Skills
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Kinchin, Ian M.; Miller, Norma L. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
In an attempt to reveal potential threshold concepts in the field of higher education pedagogy, groups of university teachers (in the UK and in Panama) were encouraged to develop personal reflection upon their conceptions of teaching. This was initiated through concept mapping activities. It was hoped that this would help participants to address…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Concept Mapping, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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