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Using a Combination Technique for the Assessment of Students' Cognitive Structures on Acid-Base Chemistry
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Aysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8
Determining the Changes in the Cognitive Structures of Ecology-Based Natural Education Participants through the Word Association
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Güngör, Sema Nur; Yücel, Elif Özata; Özer, Dilek Zeren; Özkan, Muhlis – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This study aims to determine the changes in the cognitive structures of the 35 participants after ecology-based nature education in Bursa Uludag and its vicinity. This study used a single group pretest-posttest experimental mode where the data was collected by a word association test. It included the key concepts of nature, national parks,…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Parks, Comparative Analysis
An Examination of Science Teachers' Knowledge Structures towards Technology
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Bilici, Sedef Canbazoglu – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine science teachers' knowledge structures on technology, who participated in a TPACK-based Professional Development (PD) program. The PD program was executed in the summer of 2015-2016 academic year with 24 science teachers. Data was collected with the Word Association Test (WAT). A holistic case study approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
The Influence of Item Properties on Association-Memory
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Madan, Christopher R.; Glaholt, Mackenzie G.; Caplan, Jeremy B. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Word properties like imageability and word frequency improve cued recall of verbal paired-associates. We asked whether these enhancements follow simply from prior effects on item-memory, or also strengthen associations between items. Participants studied word pairs varying in imageability or frequency: pairs were "pure" (high-high, low-low) or…
Descriptors: Cues, Holistic Approach, Memory, Word Frequency
A World of Words. Issues in Literacy & Learning
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Glazer, Susan Mandel – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
In the past, some teachers treated word learning as an isolated subject--a list of words that were not connected to content or literature studies. This article describes how Candy Mulligan, a teacher at the Center for Reading and Writing at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, teaches vocabulary by selecting words from the students' seventh and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Activities, Metacognition
Mood and Memory Research: The Need for a More Wholistic Approach.
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Kaufman, Judith S. – 1993
The interaction of emotion and cognition has received experimental attention, but the results have generally been weak and sometimes contradictory. Why this work on mood and memory has faltered is discussed, and a more holistic approach to the study of emotion and cognition is proposed. It is argued that a constructivist approach to memory may be…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning)