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Wittwer, Jorg; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
Although prior research has shown that experts tend to overestimate or underestimate what laypersons actually know, little is known about the specific consequences of biased estimations for communication. To investigate the impact of biased estimations of a layperson's knowledge on the effectiveness of experts' explanations, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Misconceptions, Lay People, Bias
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Waks, Leonard J. – Educational Theory, 2010
In this essay, Leonard Waks reconsiders the issue of the public character of charter schools, that is, schools funded through public taxation but operated by non-state organizations such as nonprofit and for-profit educational corporations and nongovernmental public interest organizations. Using John Dewey's conception of a democratic public as a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Public Education, Democratic Values
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Reardon, Robert F. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to provide a framework to measure the response of blue-collar workers to new technology in manufacturing and to establish the relationship between learning culture and that response. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected with a survey questionnaire from 12 manufacturing sites that were implementing…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Cognitive Structures, Technological Advancement, Employee Attitudes
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Bensimon, Moshe; Amir, Dorit – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2010
Musical presentation (MP) is a diagnostic and therapeutic music therapy tool which focuses on the participant's emotional exploration and awareness-insight development. Using this tool people present themselves through music of their choice and subsequently receive feedback from their peers. This study investigates MP as a tool for enhancing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Cognitive Structures
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Mudrak, Jiri – Gifted and Talented International, 2010
This paper attempts to explain, using a multi-case study approach, why some young elite athletes, who have shown extraordinary talent in childhood, leave competitive sport in adolescence. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five young elite athletes who decided to withdraw from elite sport. Interview data were analyzed using the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Dropout Research, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
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Sastre, Maria Teresa Munoz; Gonzalez, Charlene; Lhermitte, Astrid; Sorum, Paul C.; Mullet, Etienne – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2010
Using Functional Measurement (Anderson, 2008), Frileux, Lelievre, Munoz Sastre, Mullet, and Sorum (2003) examined the joint impact of several key factors on lay people's judgments of the acceptability of physicians' interventions to end patients' lives. The level of acceptability was high, and the information integration rule that best described…
Descriptors: Patients, Physicians, Decision Making, Death
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Zhang, Lingxian; Zhang, Xiaoshuan; Duan, Yanqing; Fu, Zetian; Wang, Yanwei – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
This paper presents a method of assessment on how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and animation influence the psychological process of learning by comparing a traditional web design course and an e-learning web design course, based on the Change of Internal Mental Model of Learners. We constructed the e-learning course based on Gagne's learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Learning Theories, Animation
Orland-Barak, Lily; Tillema, Harm – Educational Forum, 2007
Data from written correspondence and conversations gathered from the authors' study on knowledge construction was used to examine the process of interpretation, or how researchers construct 'knowledge about knowledge construction.' The notion of 'working in the interpretive zone' was used to conceptualize interpretation among researchers as a…
Descriptors: Researchers, Cooperation, Cognitive Structures, Group Dynamics
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Luo, Yanyan – English Language Teaching, 2009
In the article, the author tries to find out the main factors that affect the subject's vocabulary acquisition by an investigation. It is concluded that vocabulary acquisition models and strategies are something external, what really works upon vocabulary acquisition is the intermediary system of cognition including the knowledge structure and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Bales, Susan Nall – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
Although framing as a process is value neutral, since it can be put to any political, commercial, or ideological purpose, this article shows how it can be used to engage Americans in discussions of public life and how it might be improved. By offering readers a deeper understanding of the pictures in people's heads that often prevent engagement in…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Mass Media Effects
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Schuelke, Matthew J.; Day, Eric Anthony; McEntire, Lauren E.; Boatman, Paul R.; Boatman, Jazmine Espejo; Kowollik, Vanessa; Wang, Xiaoqian – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2009
The authors examined the relative criterion-related validity of knowledge structure coherence and two accuracy-based indices (closeness and correlation) as well as the utility of using a combination of knowledge structure indices in the prediction of skill acquisition and transfer. Findings from an aggregation of 5 independent samples (N = 958)…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Rhetoric, Computer Simulation, Validity
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Dozois, David J. A.; Bieling, Peter J.; Patelis-Siotis, Irene; Hoar, Lori; Chudzik, Susan; McCabe, Katie; Westra, Henny A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
Negative cognitive structure (particularly for interpersonal content) has been shown in some research to persist past a current episode of depression and potentially to be a stable marker of vulnerability for depression (D. J. A. Dozois, 2007; D. J. A. Dozois & K. S. Dobson, 2001a). Given that cognitive therapy (CT) is highly effective for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Restructuring, Rating Scales, Patients
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VanderBorght, Mieke; Jaswal, Vikram K. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Do preschoolers think adults know more about everything than children? Or do they recognize that there are some things that children might know more about than adults? Three-, four-, and five-year olds (N = 65) were asked to decide whether an adult or child informant would better be able to answer a variety of questions about the nutritional value…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Toys, Child Behavior, Help Seeking
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Lucey, Thomas A.; Grant, Michael M. – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore a framework for considering moral K-12 instructional technology. It seeks to examine the extent that development of technology policies consider and respect affected parties interests. Design/methodology/approach: Interpreting morality as an economic concept that involves a reconciliation of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Ethics, Moral Issues, Equal Education
Yang, LingLing – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the applicability of the synergistic leadership theory (SLT) (Irby, Brown, & Duffy, 1999; Irby, Brown, Duffy, & Trautman, 2002) to Chinese and American educational leaders in 50 high-ranking public Chinese universities and 50 high-ranking public U.S. universities. Methods: This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Leadership Styles, Social Theories
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