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Conceptualizing Functional Relationships in an Augmented Reality Environment: Connecting Real and Virtual Worlds
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Otman Jaber; Sara Bagossi; Michael N. Fried; Osama Swidan – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
This paper describes how students conceptualize real-life phenomena in which two or more quantities are covarying in an augmented reality environment. With this technology, real-world phenomena and virtual representations may be connected simultaneously. We aim to investigate how students connect elements of the two worlds when conceptualizing…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Simulated Environment, Synthesis, Information Technology
The Case for Performance-Based Tasks without Equating
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Way, Walter D.; Murphy, Daniel; Powers, Sonya; Keng, Leslie – Pearson, 2012
Significant momentum exists for next-generation assessments to increasingly utilize technology to develop and deliver performance-based assessments. Many traditional challenges with this assessment approach still apply, including psychometric concerns related to performance-based tasks (PBTs), which include low reliability, efficiency of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Performance Based Assessment, Technology Uses in Education, Models
The Relation between Students' Epistemological Understanding of Computer Models and Their Cognitive Processing on a Modelling Task
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Sins, Patrick H. M.; Savelsbergh, Elwin R.; van Joolingen, Wouter R.; van Hout-Wolters, Bernadette H. A. M. – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
While many researchers in science education have argued that students' epistemological understanding of models and of modelling processes would influence their cognitive processing on a modelling task, there has been little direct evidence for such an effect. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relation between students' epistemological…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Computer Simulation, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology
The Effect of Different Molecular Models on High School Students' Conceptions of Molecular Genetics
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Rotbain, Yosi; Stavy, Ruth; Marbach-Ad, Gili – Science Education Review, 2008
Our main goal in this study was to explore whether the use of models in high school molecular genetics instruction can contribute to students' understanding of concepts and processes in genetics. Three hundred and nineteen students from four comparable groups of 11th- and 12th-grade students participated. The control group (116 students) was…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Models, High School Students, Genetics
The Difficult Process of Scientific Modelling: An Analysis Of Novices' Reasoning During Computer-Based Modelling
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Sins, Patrick H. M.; Savelsbergh, Elwin R.; van Joolingen, Wouter R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
Although computer modelling is widely advocated as a way to offer students a deeper understanding of complex phenomena, the process of modelling is rather complex itself and needs scaffolding. In order to offer adequate support, a thorough understanding of the reasoning processes students employ and of difficulties they encounter during a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Models, Computer Simulation, Thinking Skills
Understanding Mathematics and Logic Using BASIC Computer Games.
Ahl, David H. – 1973
This combination teacher's guide and student workbook serves as a companion volume to 101 BASIC Computer Games (EM 011 681). It presents ideas, exercises and supplemental projects which will aid the teaching and learning of a wide variety of academic subjects in grades 7 through 12, although the emphasis is upon mathematics and logic. In addition,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Games, Grade 10, Grade 11