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Hong, Seong Bock; Broderick, Jane Tingle; McAuliffe, Cynthia M. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
As early childhood educators of young children, we recognize that children draw what they know from cultural transmissions, moving through many developmental transitions with drawing. As children's skills developed, a PreK/Kindergarten teacher in a university laboratory school classroom with 27 children was interested in studying ways children can…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Freehand Drawing
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Gan, YongCheng; Hong, Huang-Yao; Chen, Bodong; Scardamalia, Marlene – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
This study explores the dynamic, interactive nature of digital drawings and writing in a knowledge building community in which students used a multimedia online environment--Knowledge Forum--to represent and advance ideas in the field of optics. The research employs a mixed-methods case study to collect and analyze multimedia notes created by 22…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Freehand Drawing, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Cabello, Valeria M.; Moreira, Patricia M.; Griñó Morales, Paulina – Education Sciences, 2021
Constructing explanations of scientific phenomena is a high-leverage practice that promotes student understanding. In the context of this study, we acknowledge that children are used to receiving explanations from teachers. However, they are rarely encouraged to construct explanations about the causes and consequences of phenomena. We modified a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Freehand Drawing, Science Education
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Schumacher, Fabian; Wilde, Matthias – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Professional teaching competence is significantly influenced by beliefs about teaching and learning. Prospective teachers start their teacher training with quite persistent beliefs about learning processes. These beliefs are mainly influenced by the way they experienced their own lessons as a student at school. Previous biology lessons at school…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology, Student Attitudes
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Gardner, Stephanie M.; Suazo-Flores, Elizabeth; Maruca, Susan; Abraham, Joel K.; Karippadath, Anupriya; Meir, Eli – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
Graphing is an important practice for scientists and in K-16 science curricula. Graphs can be constructed using an array of software packages as well as by hand, with pen-and-paper. However, we have an incomplete understanding of how students' graphing practice vary by graphing environment; differences could affect how best to teach and assess…
Descriptors: Biology, Undergraduate Students, Graphs, Educational Technology
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Romano, Nike – Education as Change, 2021
This article explores some of the complexities of teaching art and design history to students in a Design Extended Curriculum Programme at a university of technology in the context of post-1994 South African society--a society troubled by the ghosts of colonial and apartheid histories that agitate the present/future. Tracking a series of…
Descriptors: Art History, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Feminism
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Taskin, Tugba; Yavas, Pervin Ünlü – Research in Science Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate knowledge of high school students related to conductors at electrostatic equilibrium and electric field lines. The descriptive model was preferred in line with the purpose of the study. The sample of the study consisted of 35 11th grade students, 18 females and 16 males, who were enrolled in a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Energy
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Huang, Zhuo Min – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2021
Imagination, as an essential aspect of human nature, is fundamental to all ways of thinking. However, this powerful faculty is usually overlooked or marginalized in educational research. In the article, I explore imagination as a methodological source for researchers to generate expansive, purposeful, fluid, and developmental knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Imagination, Student Experience, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness
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Reichertz, Mathew; Christie, John; Maycock, Bryan; Wong, Jack; Klein, Raymond M. – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
Whereas we acknowledge that drawing as process and product within the visual arts is complex and wide ranging, this study concentrates on testing the effectiveness of different pedagogical strategies for enhancing accuracy as a learning objective in drawing from observation. Based on our collective experience teaching observational drawing, we…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Art Education, Visual Arts, Teaching Methods
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Seçim, Ela Sümeyye; Durmusoglu, Mine Canan; Çiftçioglu, Mustafa – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2021
This study investigated preschool children's opinions on educational robots using their robot drawings. The study group consisted of 64 five- and six-years old children in an independent kindergarden affiliated to the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) in Ankara province, Turkey and participated in the Preschool Robotics Coding Workshop within…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Attitudes, Robotics, Freehand Drawing
Quane, Katherine; Chinnappan, Mohan; Trenholm, Sven – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
Ascertaining young children's attitudes towards mathematics has its challenges. Methodologically, limitations exist regarding the type of research techniques that can be employed. The use of children's drawings as a data source has both methodological affordances and issues. The study was conducted with 106 children in Years 2 and 3 from three…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Freehand Drawing, Research Methodology
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Bruce Hurst – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2021
Participatory research methods that focus on children's right to form and express views about research topics have grown in popularity in recent decades. It is less common for play to have a central role in participatory research. This article provides an account of a small, participatory research project conducted in a School Age Care setting in…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Play, Child Care, Foreign Countries
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Kirby, Caitlin K.; Libarkin, Julie C.; Thomas, Stephen – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
Natural selection is a fundamental scientific process, yet students and educators alike demonstrate misconceptions of the process. Though images are used often in science to facilitate learning, it is less common to assess learners' understanding through their own drawings. This study utilizes a multiple-choice assessment of evolutionary processes…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Scientists, Evolution, Freehand Drawing
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Veraksa, Nikolay; Gavrilova, Margarita; Veraksa, Aleksander – Education Sciences, 2022
An indirect connection between executive functioning and imagination was revealed earlier in the study of pretend play. This study aimed to explore the relationship between imagination and executive functions in children. Two-hundred-six typically developing children aged 6-7 years were assessed with main executive functions (working memory,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Imagination, Short Term Memory, Play
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Parlakyildiz, Irmak; Seven, Serdal; Parlakyildiz, Belgin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
The present study aims to analyse the perceptions of reality of 5-6 year old children about the cartoons they watch. The study group of the research includes pre-schoolers. Within the scope of the study, a private pre-school and a public preschool which volunteered to be a part of the study were determined, and the study was carried out with 101…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Childrens Attitudes, Television Viewing, Cartoons
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