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Klein, P.; Küchemann, S.; Brückner, S.; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O.; Kuhn, J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
The understanding of graphs and extraction of relevant information from graphs plays a major role in physics education and is also important in several related fields. Recently, Susac "et al." [Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 14, 020109 (2018)] compared physics and psychology students' understanding of graphs in the contexts of physics and…
Descriptors: Graphs, College Freshmen, Physics, Science Education
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Jaeger, Allison J.; Wiley, Jennifer – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
This study explored students' ability to evaluate their learning from a multimedia inquiry unit about the causes of global climate change. Participants were 90 sixth grade students from four science classrooms. Students were provided with a text describing the causes of climate change as well as graphs showing average global temperature changes.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Privacy, Student Records, Parent Rights
Behnke, Ralph R.; Beatty, Michael J. – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1977
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Comprehension, Confidence Testing, Measurement Techniques
Di Vesta, Francis J.; Finke, F. Michael – Educational Communication and Technology, 1985
Two studies investigated robustness of the effect of precise elaborations on memory and relationship of these effects to metacognitions about learning. Sentences which were elaborated in different ways were read to subjects by experimenters to establish levels of meaningfulness and identify effects on performance. Comprehension and confidence…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comprehension, Confidence Testing, Epistemology