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Ahmet Tasdere; Mehmet Fatih Kaya – Science Education International, 2023
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) on 10th-grade students' conceptual understanding of the buoyancy and density of liquids topic. Within a pre-experimental (one group pre-test/post-test) research design, this study was conducted with 22 of 10th-grade students. To collect data, the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 10
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Kocabasoglu, Bilal; Sahin, Erhan – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
The aim of this research is to analyze the cognitive structures of gifted students regarding the concept of innovation. The phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research method designs, was used in the study. The criterion sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used to determine the study group of the research. In the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Cognitive Structures, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Çetikaya, Fatih Çetin; Sönmez, Muhammet; Topçam, Abdurrahman Baki – International Education Studies, 2020
This research was carried out to determine the effectiveness and functionality of the word association test (WAT), which is a formative assessment tool that is frequently emphasized on today's modern education systems. The study group consisted of 60 students in a public school in Kocaeli in the school year 2018-2019. Participants were identified…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Associative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Public Schools
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Yesim Yener; Mehmet Bahar; Naciye Somuncu Demir; Mustafa Yilmaz; Dündar Yener – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
In this research word association test was used to explore the cognitive structure of Pre-service science teachers about biological energy metabolism. The participant group constitutes 67 Preservice students at a university in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Ten key concepts in General Biology course were given as a stimulating word and a mind map was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts
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Vukatana, Ena; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
We investigated 16- and 20-month-olds' flexibility in mapping phonotactically illegal words to objects. Using an associative word-learning task, infants were presented with a training phase that either highlighted or did not highlight the referential status of a novel label. Infants were then habituated to two novel objects, each paired with a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Foreign Countries, Phonology
Dochy, F. J. R. C.; Gorissen, V. M. J. – 1992
This report described and analyzed different methods for constructing a student's cognitive map in order to study the development and use of domain-specific prior knowledge. Cognitive maps provide accounts of student trajectories over courses and individual or group profiles of learners' strengths and weaknesses at the course or multicourse level.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Mapping, Distance Education, Foreign Countries