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Ahlberg, Mauri; Aanismaa, Pirjo; Dillon, Patrick – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2005
A 4-year-long action research project involving curriculum development in education for sustainable living as part of home economics in a university teacher education course is described and analysed. Design experiments were used to develop the curriculum and promote learning. The design experiments emphasised an integrating approach to action…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Education Courses, Curriculum Development, Home Economics
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Burns, Bruce D. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
Gigerenzer (2000) and Anderson (1990) analyzed reasoning by asking: what are the reasoner's goals? This emphasizes the adaptiveness of behavior rather than whether a belief is normative. Belief in the ''hot hand'' in basketball suggests that players experiencing streaks should be given more shots, but this has been seen as a fallacy due to…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Beliefs, Adjustment (to Environment), Markov Processes
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Harkless, Lynne E.; Fowers, Blaine J. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
This study investigated the relative contributions of gender and sexual orientation as factors associated with the formation of boundaries in dyadic intimate relating in both same- and opposite-sex couples. The study examined a relational pattern previously not empirically investigated but widely accepted as an actuality unique to lesbians;…
Descriptors: Differences, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Interpersonal Relationship
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Ahola, Sakari – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
In November 2001 the Finnish Ministry of Education published a working group report on the internationalisation strategy for higher education, and shortly after another report concentrating on the local dimensions and effects of higher education. In the era of internationalisation and globalisation, local concerns seem to be so great that the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Borwein, Jonathan M. – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2005
The emergence of powerful mathematical computing environments, the growing availability of correspondingly powerful (multi-processor) computers and the pervasive presence of the Internet allow for mathematicians, students and teachers, to proceed heuristically and "quasi-inductively." We may increasingly use symbolic and numeric computation,…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Mathematical Logic, Validity, Mathematics
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Kosal, Erica F. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2004
This paper presents a case where students can learn about aquatic communities. In this case, students speculate on what may have caused a major fish kill in an estuary in North Carolina. In the process, they explore how land runoff and excess nutrients affect aquatic communities. They also learn about the complex life cycle of the dinoflagellate…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Ecology
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Winch, Christopher – Educational Theory, 2006
In this essay, Christopher Winch explores the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's account of rule-following to vocational education with particular reference to the often-made claim that any account of an activity in terms of rule-following implies rigidity and inflexibility. He argues that most rule-following is only successful when it involves a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Persuasive Discourse, Theory Practice Relationship
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Yetter, Georgette; Gutkin, Terry B.; Saunders, Anita; Galloway, Ann M.; Sobansky, Robin R.; Song, Samuel Y. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2006
The authors used an experimental design to compare the effectiveness of unstructured collaborative practice with individual practice on achievement on a complex well-structured problem-solving task. Participants included postsecondary students (N = 257) from a liberal arts college serving primarily nontraditional students and from 2 state…
Descriptors: State Universities, Statistical Analysis, Research Design, Heuristics
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Morgan, Alun – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2006
Geographical Education has been charged with a major responsibility for "delivering" Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship (GC) in the UK (DfEE & QCA, 1999; Grimwade et al., 2000) and, as this journal demonstrates, geography has an important role internationally (Haubrich, 2000; Houtsonen, 2002; Lidstone & Stoltman,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Sustainable Development, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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Burke, K. A.; Greenbowe, Thomas J.; Hand, Brian M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2006
The Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) is an instructional technique that combines inquiry, collaborative learning, and writing to change the nature of the chemistry laboratory for students and instructors. The SWH provides a format for students to guide their discussions, their thinking, and writing about how science activities relate to their own…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Prior Learning, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
Dudczak, Craig A. – 1995
At least some of the reasoning processes involved in argumentation rely on inferences which do not fit within the traditional categories of inductive or deductive reasoning. The reasoning processes involved in plausibility judgments have neither the formal certainty of deduction nor the imputed statistical probability of induction. When utilizing…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Decision Making
van der Linden, Wim J.; Luecht, Richard M. – 1994
An optimization model is presented that allows test assemblers to control the shape of the observed-score distribution on a test for a population with a known ability distribution. An obvious application is for item response theory-based test assembly in programs where observed scores are reported and operational test forms are required to produce…
Descriptors: Ability, Foreign Countries, Heuristics, Item Response Theory
Kuehne, Carolyn C. – 1993
There are advantages to using a priori or planned comparisons rather than omnibus multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) tests followed by post hoc or a posteriori testing. A small heuristic data set is used to illustrate these advantages. An omnibus MANOVA test was performed on the data followed by a post hoc test (discriminant analysis). A…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Heuristics
Glaser, Robert; And Others – 1991
This study seeks to establish which scientific reasoning skills are primarily domain-general and which appear to be domain-specific. The subjects, 12 university undergraduates, each participated in self-directed experimentation with three different content domains. The experimentation contexts were computer-based laboratories in d.c. circuits…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Discovery Learning, Heuristics, Higher Education
Reinhardt, Brian M. – 1992
Statistical significance is often inappropriately equated with evaluating result importance and evaluating result replicability, even though these are three somewhat different issues. The prudent researcher must separately assess each of these elements of the "research triumvirate" by using different methods. This paper focuses on two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Heuristics
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