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Download full textBrown, Rachael Eriksen; Orrill, Chandra Hawley – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2021
In this paper, we extend our previous work on challenges teachers face when engaging with proportional reasoning contexts to investigate two contexts that included four problems for middle grades teachers to solve as well as eight student solutions. Analysis included coding for correct solving of the problem as well as making sense of and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Thinking Skills, Middle School Teachers, Problem Solving
Karsenti, Thierry; Bugmann, Julien – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
The goal of this study was to explore the educational potential of Minecraft. This project was conducted with 118 elementary-school students from Canada during the 2016-2017 school year. To explore the educational potential of Minecraft on the students, we designed a "Minecraft challenge" for students. 10 game levels of ascending…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Bereiter, Carl – 1989
The possibility of developing a learning theory that is designed to insure its relevance to educational problems is discussed. It is suggested that the constitutive problem for an educational psychology of learning is how one learns things that are difficult to learn. Behaviorist learning theories fail almost entirely to explain why anything is…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Psychology, Difficulty Level, Educational Psychology
Lunz, Mary E.; And Others – 1989
A method for understanding and controlling the multiple facets of an oral examination (OE) or other judge-intermediated examination is presented and illustrated. This study focused on determining the extent to which the facets model (FM) analysis constructs meaningful variables for each facet of an OE involving protocols, examiners, and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Difficulty Level, Evaluators, Examiners
Yepes-Baraya, Mario – 1996
The cognitive processes students use in doing the 1996 science assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were studied using two booklets from the 1993 NAEP science field test. Blocks of items from these booklets, a hands-on task block and either a conceptual/problem solving block or a theme block, were administered to 16…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Construct Validity, Difficulty Level, Grade 8
