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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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Ekici, Didem Inel – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This empirical study attempted to investigate the effect of using online communities of practice in teacher education on pre-service teachers' critical thinking dispositions. California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and the comments posted to the online community of practice were used as the data collection tools. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This study examines the effect of communication strategy instruction on EFL students' oral communicative ability and their strategic competence. In a 14-week English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course (English Use II) based on Communicative Language Teaching approach, 80 learners were divided into two groups. The strategy training group (n = 44)…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral; Belek, Deniz Eren – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of model-based teaching on students' argumentation skills. Experimental design guided to the research. The participants of the study were pre-service physics teachers. The argumentative intervention lasted seven weeks. Data for this research were collected via video recordings and written arguments.…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Instructional Effectiveness, Persuasive Discourse, Preservice Teacher Education
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Gao, Fei – Online Learning, 2014
Drawing on research in constrained online discussion environments and strategy instruction, this approach combines explicit instruction on discussion strategies with the use of post type labels. In a trial of this approach in an online course, students actively used the discussion strategies and post type labels in their discussions. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Spatariu, Alexandru; Winsor, Denise L. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2010
Although there is a push in education to increase the amount of technologies used in the classroom much of the recent literature emphasizes a need to investigate ways to improve the instructional methods used when incorporating technology in education. The focus of the present research is to investigate an instructional technique used in an…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teachers, Educational Technology, Asynchronous Communication