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Christoph Hoyer; Raimund Girwidz – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Vector fields are a highly abstract physical concept that is often taught using visualizations. Although vector representations are particularly suitable for visualizing quantitative data, they are often confusing, especially when describing real fields such as magnetic and electric fields, as the vector arrows can overlap. The present study…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Physics, Scientific Concepts
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Dinah Reuter; Frank Reinhold – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The perception and manipulation of spatial information are essential for mathematical learning, and research highlights gender differences in spatial abilities. The present study contributes to the question of whether these differences are evident at earlier ages and how they interact with task complexity in mental rotation. We developed the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Instruction, Gender Differences
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Schumacher, Fabian; Wilde, Matthias – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Professional teaching competence is significantly influenced by beliefs about teaching and learning. Prospective teachers start their teacher training with quite persistent beliefs about learning processes. These beliefs are mainly influenced by the way they experienced their own lessons as a student at school. Previous biology lessons at school…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology, Student Attitudes
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Duan, Chenggui; Lee, Tracy K. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2022
Purpose: Free and open-source software (FOSS) has been used worldwide because of the advantages of user control, cost-saving, flexibility, openness, freedom, more security and better stability. The purpose of this study is to explore the status quo of educational application of FOSS and the trends from international perspectives and its…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Weigelt, Matthias; Memmert, Daniel – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
Purpose: The purpose was (1) to test a new version of a mental rotation task (MRT), which assesses mental rotation abilities of men and women for sport-specific items, and (2) to investigate potential differences in MRT performance, which are based on athletic expertise. Methods: Eighty-eight basketball experts (42 females) and 123 novices (64…
Descriptors: Athletes, Team Sports, Spatial Ability, Visualization
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Suggate, Sebastian Paul; Martzog, Philipp – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
During typical childhood interactions with screen-media, two features are prominent. First, input is dominated by audio-visual signals and second, these predominately provide children with ready-made images, potentially negating effortful mental imagery construction. We present a two-year longitudinal study on a sample of 109 preschool children.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mass Media Use, Television Viewing, Video Games