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Kumar, Amit; Mathur, Madhu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Teaching a subject like physics needs special teaching methods. It has been felt that in spite of strenuous efforts of physics teacher, students fail to grasp the certain concepts of subject, which lead disinterest among students towards physics. More ever students are often unable to apply their knowledge to advance studies. Therefore there is a…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
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Li, Degao; Gao, Kejuan; Zhang, Yue; Wu, Xueyun – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
Inspired by a previous study of Korean deaf and hard of hearing adolescents, the researchers conducted a priming task of living-nonliving categorization with a sample of Chinese deaf and hard of hearing adolescents. The sample in this study had significantly lower accuracy levels for the thematically related items than for the taxonomically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Pictorial Stimuli
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Kaye, Daniel B.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Results of two studies using the Esper paradigm to determine development of rule application and discovery are reported. Subjects learned and generalized when rule and structure were provided, but there was little evidence of rule discovery. Manipulations of memory and attention facilitated learning, but only attention facilitated rule discovery.…
Descriptors: Attention, Concept Formation, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education