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Dave Tout; Kees Hoogland; Javier Díez-Palomar – ETS Research Institute, 2025
This research memorandum highlights the collaborative efforts of the numeracy panel for the ETS Return on Investment (ROI) Study, Phase 1, comprising David Tout, Kees Hoogland, and Javier Díez-Palomar, in developing their research memorandum, "Improving the Quality of Numeracy Skills: Progressing from Level 2 to Level 4 on the PIAAC Cycle 2…
Descriptors: Adults, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Skill Development
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Leniz, Ane; Zuza, Kristina; Guiasola, Jenaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
This study examines the causal reasoning that university students use to explain how dc circuits work. We analyze how students use the concepts of electric field and potential difference in their explanatory models of dc circuits, and what kinds of reasoning they use at the macroscopic and microscopic levels in their explanations. This knowledge…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Thinking Skills, Skill Analysis, Student Surveys
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Cowgill, Daniel Armond, II; Waring, Scott M. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to partially replicate the "Historical Problem Solving: A Study of the Cognitive Process Using Historical Evidence" study conducted by Sam Wineburg in 1991. The Historical Problem Solving study conducted by Wineburg (1991) sought to compare the ability of historians and top level students, as they analyzed…
Descriptors: Historical Interpretation, Skill Analysis, Information Skills, Information Literacy