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Cepik, Saban; Sarandi, Hedayat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
This study examines the interaction effect of age in L2 attainment. It explores whether success in foreign language learning at early childhood grades varies depending on age. It also addresses the beliefs of foreign language teachers regarding the variables under review. Eighty-three 11 year-old language learners who started learning English at…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Frisby, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe, measure, compare, and contrast the perceptions of elementary teachers and principals regarding the degree to which the schools in which they are employed have implemented learning organizations conforming to Senge's (1990) 5 disciplines: mental models, personal mastery, shared vision, team…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Principals, Elementary School Teachers
Samson, Duncan – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
This paper seeks to establish a research framework for an investigation into the extent to which pupils are able to visualise figural cues in multiple ways within the context of pattern generalisation. Enactivism, along with the constructs of knowledge objectification and figural apprehension, are identified as forming an ideal theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Visual Aids, Cues
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Price, David W.; Miller, Elaine K.; Rahm, Alanna Kulchak; Brace, Nancy E.; Larson, R. Sam – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2010
Introduction: Continuing medical education (CME) is meant to drive and support improvements in practice. To achieve this goal, CME activities must move beyond simply purveying knowledge, instead helping attendees to contextualize information and to develop strategies for implementing new learning. CME attendees face different barriers to…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Professional Continuing Education, Qualitative Research, Barriers
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Hofsess, Christy D.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2010
Countertransference is a concept that is widely acknowledged, but there exists little definitional consensus, making research in the area difficult. The authors adopted a prototype theory (E. H. Rosch, 1973a, 1973b; see C. B. Mervis & E. Rosch, 1981, for a review) to examine this construct because it conceptually fits well with constructs that…
Descriptors: Counselor Client Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Models, Methods
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Heimlich, Joe E.; Horr, E. Elaine T. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Environmental learning, or how individuals make sense and meaning about nature, the environment, ecology, and environmental issues, is best understood as lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep (Banks and others, 2007). Lifelong learning refers to acquisition of skills, competencies, attitudes, and knowledge over time; life-wide is learning across…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Ecology, Environmental Education
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Rebelo, Teresa Manuela; Gomes, Adelino Duarte – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyse the evolution of the concepts of organizational learning and the learning organization and propose guidelines for the future. Design/methodology/approach: The evolution of organizational learning and the learning organization is analysed in the light of the three-stage model of the evolution of…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Organizational Theories, Guidelines, Models
Park-Martinez, Jayne Irene – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of node-link mapping on students' meaningful learning and conceptual change in a 1-semester introductory life-science course. This study used node-link mapping to integrate and apply the National Research Council's (NRC, 2005) three principles of human learning: engaging students' prior…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Introductory Courses, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping
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Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; DeBoer, George E. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2011
Distractor-driven multiple-choice assessment items and Rasch modeling were used as diagnostic tools to investigate students' understanding of middle school chemistry ideas. Ninety-one items were developed according to a procedure that ensured content alignment to the targeted standards and construct validity. The items were administered to 13360…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Chemistry, Misconceptions, Multiple Choice Tests
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Ifenthaler, Dirk – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
Our research aims to identify domain-specific similarities and differences of externalized cognitive structures. Cognitive structure, also known as knowledge structure or structural knowledge, is conceived as the manner in which an individual organizes the relationships of concepts in memory. By diagnosing these structures precisely, even…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Structures, Learning Processes, Intellectual Disciplines
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Bohn, Annette – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Autobiographical reasoning is closely related to the development of normative ideas about life as measured by the cultural life script. The acquisition of a life script is an important prerequisite for autobiographical reasoning because children learn through the life script which events are expected to go into their life story, and when to expect…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Autobiographies, Reflection
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Badilescu-Buga, Emil – Teaching English with Technology, 2012
Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) has been trialled and used by users from many countries around the globe, but despite the positive attitude towards its potential benefits to pedagogical processes its adoption in practice has been uneven, reflecting how difficult it is to make a new technology based concept an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Adoption (Ideas), Barriers, Literature Reviews
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Andersen, Rachel J.; Evans, Ian M.; Harvey, Shane T. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
To explore children's perceptions of their teachers' feelings in everyday classroom contexts, the authors conducted focus groups with New Zealand primary (elementary) school children to discuss what they observed about positive classroom teachers' interactional style and emotional behavior. Seventy-nine students between age 8 and 12 years, from…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Student Attitudes
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Hogrebe, Mark C.; Tate, William F., IV – Review of Research in Education, 2012
In this chapter, "geospatial" refers to geographic space that includes location, distance, and the relative position of things on the earth's surface. Geospatial perspective calls for the addition of a geographic lens that focuses on place and space as important contextual variables. A geospatial view increases one's understanding of…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Structures, Geographic Location
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Pilitsis, Vicky; Duncan, Ravit Golan – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2012
Research in science education suggests that teachers' beliefs are linked to the use of inquiry-based instruction; teachers holding a constructivist belief are more likely to engage in student-centered activities in the classroom. However, there is currently little research on the ways in which teachers' beliefs change over time, and in particular,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Constructivism (Learning), Methods Courses
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