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Unveiling Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes toward Teaching: The Role of Pedagogical Practicums
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Morales Cortés, Yimer Andrés – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2016
This article reports a research developed at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia with a group of pre-service teachers that was immersed in an English teaching practicum. The main purpose of this inquiry was to find out the role that practicum exerted on novice teachers' attitudes towards teaching. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), English (Second Language)
Cognitive Mapping Techniques: Implications for Research in Engineering and Technology Education
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Dixon, Raymond A.; Lammi, Matthew – Journal of Technology Education, 2014
The primary goal of this paper is to present the theoretical basis and application of two types of cognitive maps, concept map and mind map, and explain how they can be used by educational researchers in engineering design research. Cognitive mapping techniques can be useful to researchers as they study students' problem solving strategies…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Engineering Education, Technology Education
Winking at Facebook: Capturing Digitally Mediated Classroom Learning
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Barden, Owen – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
This article discusses the combination of methods used in a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by a class of five students at a sixth-form college in north-west England. Through a project in which teacher-researcher and student-participants co-constructed a Facebook group page about the students' scaffolded research into…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
Enhancing Higher Order Thinking Skills through Clinical Simulation
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Varutharaju, Elengovan; Ratnavadivel, Nagendralingan – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2014
Purpose: The study aimed to explore, describe and analyse the design and implementation of clinical simulation as a pedagogical tool in bridging the deficiency of higher order thinking skills among para-medical students, and to make recommendations on incorporating clinical simulation as a pedagogical tool to enhance thinking skills and align the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Simulation, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
A Guide to Conducting Consensual Qualitative Research.
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Hill, Clara E.; Thompson, Barbara J.; Williams, Elizabeth Nutt – Counseling Psychologist, 1997
Discusses the components of a new methodology--consensual qualitative research (CQR)--which uses words to describe phenomena and which recognizes the importance of context. Locates CQR within the qualitative research tradition and details ways to develop a focused topic area, choose a team, attend to group dynamics, and other important issues.…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counseling Theories, Data Collection, Guidelines
Synergistic Analysis of Structured Essays: A Large Sample, Discovery-Oriented, Qualitative Research Approach.
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Tinsley, Howard E. A. – Counseling Psychologist, 1997
Reacts to a new methodology: consensual qualitative research (CQR). Provides an outline of the historical debate on psychological research methods, explains the distinction between discovery-oriented and verification-oriented research, and labels the CQR approach as a discovery-oriented design. Questions the CQR's emphasis on consensus and…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counseling Theories, Criticism, Data Collection