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Delgado, Cesar; Lucero, Margaret M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Graphing is a fundamental part of the scientific process. Scales are key but little-studied components of graphs. Adopting a resources-based framework of cognitive structure, we identify the potential intuitive resources that six undergraduates of diverse majors and years at a public US research university activated when constructing scales, and…
Descriptors: Graphs, Scaling, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students)
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Cliff, Alan F.; Woodward, Rob – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This paper reports the results of a small-scale (n = 9) interview study of the "ways of knowing" of academics in a Design School at a South African polytechnic. The focus of the study was on exploring the perceptions of these academics about discipline-specific knowledge in their fields. The paper presents an analysis of the responses,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Perception, Interviews