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Holmes, N. G.; Kumar, Dhaneesh; Bonn, D. A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Developing critical thinking skills is a common goal of an undergraduate physics curriculum. How do students make sense of evidence and what do they do with it? In this study, we evaluated students' critical thinking behaviors through their written notebooks in an introductory physics laboratory course. We compared student behaviors in the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills
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Clarke, Lane Whitney; Bartholomew, Audrey – Online Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate instructor participation in asynchronous discussions through an in-depth content analysis of instructors' postings and comments through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework (Garrison et. al, 2001). We developed an analytical tool based on this framework in order to better understand what instructors…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Teacher Participation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Content Analysis
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Lavoie, Constance; Mark, Marie-Paul; Jenniss, Brigitte – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This article presents a community-based pedagogical initiative for teaching vocabulary. The research took place in the Innu community of Unamen Shipu in northern Quebec. The study introduced a teaching method grounded in Indigenous knowledge theory that exemplified the multiliteracies pedagogy principles. This exploratory study used participatory…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Indigenous Knowledge
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Chambers, Joan M.; Radbourne, Christy – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
Utilizing ecosocial theory and the notion of the environment as text, two teachers, the vice principal and a university researcher, engaged in a year-long, place-based, qualitative action research project in which they used the environment as the integrating context for teaching critical literacy, mathematics, and science. The project revealed…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Skill Development, Critical Literacy, Qualitative Research
Bainbridge, Joyce M.; Macy, Leonora – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
In this article, the authors explore the ways in which a selection of student teachers from two universities in Canada expressed their feelings of preparedness to teach literacy in elementary classrooms. The student teachers had experienced various approaches to literacy teaching as they progressed through their teacher education program. These…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Literacy, Teacher Education Programs
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Varnhagen, Stanley; Wilson, Douglas; Krupa, Eugene; Kasprzak, Susan; Hunting, Vali – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2005
The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of students as they progressed through three specific online graduate courses in health promotion studies delivered primarily by asynchronous computer conferencing. Focused teleconference discussions were conducted with approximately 45 students from the different courses and the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Health Promotion