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Download full textKarakus, Memet; Karakus, Fatma – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The study aims to determine education faculty students' cognitive structures regarding professional concepts, and to reveal the views of the students and faculty members about conceptual teaching. The participants of the study, which was designed as a case study, were determined using the criterion sampling method. In the study, which was carried…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Teaching, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
Direct linkHuxster, Joanna K.; Uribe-Zarain, Ximena; Kempton, Willett – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
A survey covering the scientific and social aspects of climate change was administered to examine U.S. undergraduate student mental models, and compare knowledge between groups based on major and environmental group membership. A Knowledge Score (scale 0-35, mean score = 17.84) was generated for respondents at two, central East Coast, U.S.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Climate, Majors (Students), Group Membership
Saçkes, Mesut – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study aims to examine kindergarten children's mental models of the day and night cycle and provide implications for pedagogical practices targeting space science concepts in early childhood classrooms. A total of 46 kindergartners participated in the study, their age ranging from 60 to 75 months, including 22 boys and 24 girls.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes
Brijlall, Deonarain; Ndlovu, Zanele – South African Journal of Education, 2013
This qualitative case study in a rural school in Umgungundlovu District in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, explored Grade 12 learners' mental constructions of mathematical knowledge during engagement with optimisation problems. Ten Grade 12 learners who do pure Mathemat-ics participated, and data were collected through structured activity sheets and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Problem Solving, Calculus
