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Siu-Cheung Kong; Ming Lai; Yugen Li; Tak-Yue Dickson Chan – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Concepts and practices are widely used to assess students' development in computational thinking (CT). However, less is known about how the development of each construct relates to that of the other. With a sample of 997 grade 6 students (average age = 11.43 at the beginning of the school year) from 14 primary schools, we examined the…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Student Development
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van der Linden, Wietse; Bakx, Anouke; Ros, Anje; Beijaard, Douwe; van den Bergh, Linda – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
This study reports on the development of second-year student teachers' knowledge of research, and the changes in their beliefs and attitude regarding research during an introductory course at an institute for primary teacher education. Questionnaires and concept maps were administered before and after the course. The results showed that student…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers, Research Skills, Preservice Teacher Education
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Finegold, Menachem; Pundak, David – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1991
School students' conceptual frameworks in astronomy and students' levels of knowledge and conceptualization were examined for 130 students in grades 2 through 12. Knowledge and conceptualization increased with school age. A test administered to 892 students in 7 schools demonstrated that schools contributed little to education in astronomy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Astronomy, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis