This study draws on recent research on the central role of representation in learning. While there has been considerable research on students' understanding of evaporation, the representational issues entailed in this understanding have not been investigated in depth. The study explored students' engagement with evaporation phenomena through…

The abstractness of children's early syntactic representations has been questioned in the recent acquisition literature. While some research has suggested that children's knowledge of basic constructions such as the transitive is robust and abstract at a very young age, other work has proposed that young children only have constructions that are…

This paper principally examines personality from a philosophical standpoint. First, problems related to the definition of this subject-matter are considered. Descriptive definitions and stipulative definitions are discussed. Second, a description of personality based on the Theory of Fuzzy Systems (TFS) and computers is suggested. The basic idea…

Children's expressed conceptions about death were analyzed into 4 categories: 1) Relative Ignorance, 2) Temporary State, 3) Final, but biological functioning continues, and 4) Finality. (DP)

Piaget's support Piaget's though nominal realism doesn't seem to develop in as unified a pattern as he described. A version of this paper was read at the annual meeting of the New Jersey State Psychological Association, May 1968. This research is based on a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctoral degree…

A reply by Saltz to Mandler's criticism of the Saltz and Finkelstein (1974) article on imagery and conceptual behavior. (JMB)

Focuses on an important aspect of conceptual thinking--the role of causal notions in the content of our concepts. Presents a set of experiments introducing the Illusion of Explanatory Depth (IOED), in which he shows that people confidently believe they know how things work, but when challenged are forced to acknowledge that their understanding is…

Discusses the question of whether deafness is a disability and explores the concepts of deafness and disability to examine what is buried in both the question and an answer. (Author/VWL)

Advanced practice nursing is defined as professional health care focused on clinical services, using a nursing orientation and based on competencies from graduate nursing education. AP nurses are involved in clinical practice, systems management, and health care discourse. (SK)

This document offers a planning tool for grades 3-7 that can be used by regional comprehensive centers, other technical assistance centers, and state departments of education to plan professional development for teachers. It is based on the "National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report" which was published in 2008. The panel synthesized its final…