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Zohar, Anat; Ginossar, Shlomit – Science Education, 1998
Advocates removing the taboo regarding anthropomorphism and teleology in biology education. Argues that for high school students, accepting such formulations does not necessarily imply anthropomorphic or teleological reasoning. Further, living organisms seem goal-oriented because of their adaptation for survival. Concludes with the argument that…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Concept Formation, Evolution, Heuristics
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Tan, Alexis; Fujioka, Yuki; Tan, Gerdean – Communication Monographs, 2000
Proposes and tests an affective model of policy reasoning with television use as a first stage variable in a heuristic causal chain. Tests the power of the model to explain how citizens (undergraduate students) make up their minds regarding government policies on affirmative action, with stereotypes of African Americans as the second stage,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Stereotypes, Communication Research, Heuristics
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Burke, K. A.; Hand, Brian; Poock, Jason; Greenbowe, Thomas – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are hired to assume some of the teaching duties in large general chemistry programs. They serve as liaisons between students enrolled in the course and the professor in charge. Being assigned to teach immediately on arrival at graduate school may be overwhelming to novice graduate students. When sending them into…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Heuristics, Chemistry, Teaching Assistants
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Cahill, Adrian J.; Sreenan, Cormac J. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2006
This paper examines the design and evaluation of a TV on Demand (TVoD) system, consisting of a globally accessible storage architecture where all TV content broadcast over a period of time is made available for streaming. The proposed architecture consists of idle Internet Service Provider (ISP) servers that can be rented and released dynamically…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Internet, Mathematics, Television
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Warren, James E. – Written Communication, 2006
Previous studies of the professional discourse of literary studies have focused solely on published scholarly articles and have produced contradictory evidence regarding the knowledge-building function of literary argument. In this study, 9 English department faculty members use a "think-aloud" procedure to read four lyric poems and compose a…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Poetry, Reading Materials, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Reznitskaya, Alina; Jarvin, Linda – London Review of Education, 2007
This article describes a balance theory of wisdom and applies the theory to the context of schooling. First the article discusses why cognitive skills as assessed by conventional tests are an important, but not a sufficient, basis for education. Second the article discusses the concept of wisdom and why it is important for schooling. Third the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Intelligence, Self Motivation
Urowitz, Jack; Bozzato, Eva – 1992
Contextualizing reality is the final goal of academic pursuit, and in college level language studies, a key goal should always be to make students aware of what they already know. The words used by humans are either organizational, functional words, or they are related to cultural literacy. Cultural literacy is a body of knowledge that all people…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Heuristics
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Koichu, Boris; Berman, Abraham; Moore, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2004
Applying and adapting a variety of appropriate heuristic strategies is one of the accepted standards of problem solving (NCTM, 2000). Thinking through a solution to a non-routine mathematical task, experts in problem solving call into play many sophisticated strategies (almost) without conscious efforts, while novices need to be taught how to do…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Techniques, Problem Solving
Freedman, Aviva – 1987
As a by-product of a study concerning how university level writers develop new genres of discourse, a study was undertaken to examine what factors or dimensions affect the composing process of university writers. Six undergraduate students at Carleton University in Ottawa participated, making available to researchers information about how they…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Heuristics, Higher Education
Tennyson, Robert D.; Christensen, Dean L. – 1989
This paper defines the next generation of intelligent computer-assisted instructional systems (ICAI) by depicting the elaborations and extensions offered by educational research and theory perspectives to enhance the ICAI environment. The first section describes conventional ICAI systems, which use expert systems methods and have three modules: a…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater. – 1987
In order to make information about technical writing more available, the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) has collected the papers not subject to copyright restrictions that were presented at the technical writing section of its 1987 meeting. The essays cover a wide range of topics in technical writing pedagogy and research. The…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Discourse Analysis, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language)
Strickland, James – 1986
A study examined the quantity and quality of ideas produced in freshman composition students' writing to determine whether computer assisted instruction (CAI) stimulates invention as well as or better than current invention instruction in traditional classrooms. Two CAI programs were used: QUEST, the systematic program that examines an item/event…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction, Courseware
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Vale, C. David; Gialluca, Kathleen A. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1988
To determine which produced the most accurate item parameter estimates, four methods of item response theory were evaluated: (1) heuristic estimates; (2) the ANCILLES program; (3) the LOGIST program; and (4) the ASCAL program. LOGIST and ASCAL produced estimates of superior and essentially equivalent accuracy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Estimation (Mathematics)
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Wolf, Fredric M. And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1988
The efficacy of an educational intervention in teaching medical students to select optimal diagnostic data consistent with the competing-hypotheses heuristic and Bayes' theorem when solving clinical problems was examined. The results suggest that some problem-solving skills can be enhanced or learned independent of the acquisition of content…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Competition, Decision Making
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Strickland, James – Computers and Composition, 1987
Appraises the computer as a prewriting aid. Evaluates both the quality and quantity of ideas produced by various invention techniques and programs, and compares results of similar studies by Hugh Burns and Helen Schwartz. (NKA)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Freshman Composition, Heuristics
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