Uses an evolutionary perspective of conceptual change to consider a conception in the domain of linear functions. Summarizes the results of the written assessments and presents an analysis of the discussions for two pairs of students to show that the use of the x-intercept can be framed as a transitional conception. Contains 31 references.…

Examines U.S. environmental policy since 1970 as a learning process and as an effort to develop three kinds of capacities for policy learning: technical learning, conceptual learning, and social learning. (Contains 70 references.) (Author/JOW)

The process of developing concepts of time continues from age 5 to 11 years (Zakay, 1998). This study sought the representation mode in which children could best express time concepts, especially the proper arrangement of events in a logical and temporal order. Usually, temporal order is examined and taught by 2D (2-dimensional) pictorial scripts.…

The purpose of this paper is to make the case for organising teaching and learning in early childhood education around concepts and generalisations rather than inert facts. It is now widely accepted that facts alone are not enough to help children discern patterns and relationships, group things together, see big ideas and solve problems. Facts…

False recognition, broadly defined as a claim to remember something that was not encountered previously, can arise for multiple reasons. For instance, a distinction can be made between conceptual false recognition (i.e., false alarms resulting from semantic or associative similarities between studied and tested items) and perceptual false…

The literature of antonymy, though disjointed and inconclusive, has found that opposition is important to development, learning, psychological health, and creativity. To investigate the role of dialectics in cognitive processes and human learning, four empirical studies were undertaken. In study one, to investigate the dialectic process in…

Author attempted to clarify the concept of "creativity" so that students might become more creative and teachers might realize more effective methods for stimulating student development. (RK)

THE LEARNING STYLE OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IS THE INDUCTIVE, RATHER THAN THE DEDUCTIVE, DISCOVERY METHOD OF LEARNING. BY STARTING WITH A PARTICULAR CONCRETE ITEM WITHIN THE CHILD'S FRAME OF REFERENCE, IT BECOMES EASIER FOR HIM TO MAKE GENERALIZATIONS. THROUGH SKILLFUL QUESTIONING, THE TEACHER CAN HELP THE CHILD SEARCH OUT AND UNDERSTAND AN…

ABOUT 70 FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THIS INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL PRESSURE ON CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION TASKS AND ITS TRANSFER EFFECT FROM ONE TASK TO ANOTHER. THE SUBJECTS WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO FIVE EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS -- (1) A CONTROL GROUP WITHOUT FEEDBACK, (2) A VERIDICAL GROUP WITH CORRECT FEEDBACK ON THE TWO…

TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF POSTFEEDBACK (POST-IF) INTERVALS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS ON OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS. THE POST-IF INTERVAL REPRESENTS THE TIME BETWEEN PRESENTATION OF INFORMATIVE FEEDBACK ON ONE TRIAL AND THE ONSET OF THE NEXT STIMULUS PATTERN. THE EXPERIMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO…

This report, Bibliography, is designed to aid the researcher concerned with concept learning. It contains (1) rationale and strategy for compiling a bibliography of articles concerned with concept learning, (2) a definition of the word "concept," (3) a system for classifying articles by their content, (4) a bibliography of relevant articles…

Young children were studied in tasks that required them to select one object as "different" from another. Children systematically selected maximally similar objects until about 3 years of age, and thereafter performed correctly. Additional data derived from the children's verbal justifications and refusals to select suggested a 4-stage model in…