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Steele, Bronwen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Health science students like students in many disciplines exhibit difficulty with transferring content from one course to another. For example, the problem explored in this study occurred when overlapping concepts were presented in introductory biology and chemistry courses, but students could not transfer the concepts to the other disciplinary…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Action Research, Cooperation, Chemistry
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Mitchell, Rebecca – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2011
This paper reports on findings from a five-teacher, exploratory case study, critically observing their implementation of a technology-intensive, augmented reality (AR) mathematics curriculum unit, along with its paper-based control. The unit itself was intended to promote multiple proportional-reasoning strategies with urban, public, middle school…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students
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Gomes, Maria de Fatima Cardoso; Mortimer, Eduardo F.; Kelly, Gregory J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This article reports on the construction process of inclusion/exclusion for high school chemistry students in two schools in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais State, Brazil. We examined the interactional accomplishment of inclusion/exclusion of four students, two from a private school and two from a public school. The aim of this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Chemistry, High School Students
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Morgan, Tannis – Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The Community of Inquiry Framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) has been an important contribution to the online distance education field and has been useful in providing researchers with the construct of "teaching presence". Teaching presence as described by the framework provides insight into the types of interactions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Distance Education, Educational Theories
Kugle, Cherry; Smith, Nancy – Data Quality Campaign, 2008
The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Data Collection, Databases, Higher Education
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Goguen, Jeannette; Knight, Melanie; Tiberius, Richard – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
This study examined the degree of acceptance of qualitative research by medical trainees and physicians, and explored the causes for any differences in their support of qualitative versus quantitative research. Thirty-two individuals at four levels of medical training were studied. Eight philosophers of science served for construct validation.…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Qualitative Research, Physicians, Construct Validity
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Arenson, Rebecca; Kretschmer, Robert E. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
A qualitative study was conducted that reflected an analysis of a 6-week poetry unit in a language arts classroom of 6th and 8th graders at a school for the deaf in a large city in the northeastern United States. The school served a large population of children of poverty who were of Latino and African American descent. The study was guided by 4…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Deafness, Urban Areas, Grade 8
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Baildon, Mark C.; Sim, Jasmine B.-Y. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009
In this article we explore the ways critical thinking is conceived by a group of Singaporean social studies teachers, what they see as its purposes as well as perceived constraints to critical thinking and teaching critical thinking in Singapore's schools. Using a case study research design and constant comparative method we analysed data from…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Social Studies
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Girolametto, Luigi; Weitzman, Elaine; Greenberg, Janice – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: This study examined the efficacy of a professional development program for early childhood educators that facilitated emergent literacy skills in preschoolers. The program, led by a speech-language pathologist, focused on teaching alphabet knowledge, print concepts, sound awareness, and decontextualized oral language within naturally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Speech Language Pathology, Emergent Literacy
Boomgard, Monica C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A growing number of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who display complex learning needs present challenges to educators who struggle to meet their educational needs. Teaching is stressful and additional instructional challenges may increase teacher vulnerability to burnout, leading to a greater likelihood of attrition. Increasing…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Burnout, Online Courses, Autism
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Cheung, Wing Sum; Hew, Khe Foon – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In this paper, we share two blended learning approaches used at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. We have been using these two approaches in the last twelve years in many courses ranging from the diploma to graduate programs. For the first blended learning approach, we integrated one asynchronous communication tool with face to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Xie, Ying; Ke, Fengfeng; Sharma, Priya – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
Deep cognitive thinking refers to a learner's purposeful and conscious manipulation of ideas toward meaningful learning. Strategies such as journaling/blogging and peer feedback have been found to promote deep thinking. This article reports a research study about the effects of two different blog leader styles on students' deep thinking as…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Teamwork
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Erkunt, Hamdi – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
Written interaction between pre-service teachers engaged in progressive inquiry using Knowledge Forum in two intense summer courses were analyzed to detect and rank those students in terms knowledge sharing, pressing on for further inquiry and the number of partners they communicated with. Social network analysis techniques were employed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Cooperative Learning, Preservice Teachers
Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2008
The story from the museum may not be read by visitors, who come with their own knowledge and understanding and read a different story in the animals. The visitors read a story which makes sense to them and builds on what they already know and interests them. Increasingly, robotics models are being used in natural history museums, science centers,…
Descriptors: Paleontology, Animals, Robotics, Museums
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Lucey, Thomas A.; O'Malley, Gary S.; Jansem, Anchalee – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009
The authors examined online responses of a cohort of teachers, most of whom were taking their first graduate course. The teachers (students) posted their ideas within six blogs. Of 26 students, 11 (42.31%) consented to the analysis of their reflections. Basing their interpretation on stages of online community developed by Waltonen-Moore, Stuart,…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Inservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students
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