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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Domains of Knowledge"”.
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Instruments and Domains of Knowledge: The Case of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 1956-1969
In this thesis, I traced the development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy through the pages of the Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC) from the year 1956 to 1969 to understand how organic chemists and Varian Associates?the makers of the first commercial NMR spectrometers?negotiated …
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Finding analogies in semantic networks using the singular value decomposition
… We treat analogies as comparisons between domains of knowledge. A domain is a small semantic network, i.e., a set of concepts and binary relations between concepts. We treat our knowledge base (the large semantic network) as if it contained many domains of knowledge, then apply …
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Trait profiles: a within-person approach to intellectual investment
… by investing time and cognitive resources in domains of knowledge. According to PPIK (Ackerman, 1996), one of the prevailing models of intellectual investment, individual differences such as cognitive abilities, personality, and vocational interests guide the process of intellectual …
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Student Teacher Knowledge and Its Impact on Task Design
… how student teachers used their mathematical knowledge for teaching and pedagogical knowledge to design and modify mathematical tasks. It also examined the relationship between teacher knowledge and the cognitive demands of a task. The study relied heavily on the framework in Hill, Ball, and …
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Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics to Latino English Language Learners: An Instrument Development Study
The purpose of this study was to identify the domains, as well as specific aspects of, knowledge for teaching mathematics to Latino English Language Learners (KT-MELL) and to develop a valid and reliable measure of this knowledge. Latino ELLs are rapidly becoming one of the most populous of student …
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Designing a computational construction kit for the blind and visually impaired
… thesis documents the adaptation and extension of an existing computational construction kit, and its use by a community of learners previously unaddressed - blind and visually impaired children. This community has an intimate relationship with the digital and assistive technologies that they …
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A framework for analyzing the sustainability of peer produced science commons
… Traditional approaches to the governance of scientific research struggle to accommodate these novel forms of collaboration and cooperation. For example, - A marketplace model creates individual property rights through limited monopolies, and - A state-based model develops regulatory …
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Alma Mater? Lactation Rooms as a Case Study for Centering Place-making in the Quest for Inclusion on College Campuses
… students. Many postpartum people, members of the campus community, are falling through the gaps of support by their universities. Some universities have developed policies that require lactation rooms for capital construction projects. The state of the policies themselves and consistency of …
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Giving the head a hand : constructing a microworld to build relationships with ideas in balance control
The major promise of computational technology for learning is in making discovery and acquisition of knowledge accessible to a wider range of people. The protean expressive and constructive nature of computational technology facilitates more powerful and effective learning methodologies. Enabling …
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Insights into drama in the early childhood setting: A rationale for the use of drama
… is an investigation into the implementation of drama in early childhood education conducted in one Perth metropolitan primary school, over a three-week period. The six drama lessons were taught by the researcher/practitioner in a Pre-primary and a Year One class. These students were chosen …
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Exploring the TPACK of Grade 9 mathematics teachers in the Western Cape of South Africa
The Department of Basic Education is striving towards improving the Grade 9 mathematics TIMSS results (Department of Basic Education, 2019). The use of technology in the mathematic classroom has shown to be able to transform mathematical education (Wiest, 2001) and, if implemented correctly in …
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Surveying mathematics teachers' knowledge of formative assessment: a study of teachers in the Federal District of Brazil
… this dissertation involves a quantitative study of mathematics teachers' knowledge of formative assessment. Formative assessment is understood as a process in which both teachers and students actively become the agents of the process, responsible for their own knowledge and practice. In this …
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Characterising A-level Students' Conceptual Integration Between Physics and Chemistry
… to the way students relate and structure their knowledge across two or more domains of knowledge; hence, the degree of linking and the level of coherence between ideas across the areas. It has been argued that conceptual integration is important to science learning in two ways: achieving …
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought
… when we understand language? Human language offers a broad window into the landscape of our thoughts. We talk about what we see, believe, and imagine, posing questions and communicating our plans. Language, in turn, stocks our mental inventories with new concepts and theories, communicating …
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Creating a modeling culture : supporting the development of scientific practice among teachers
This thesis describes the processes of teacher learning and explores the associated changes that take place in classrooms. It describes the Adventures in Modeling Workshops, which we designed and created to introduce teachers to the process of conceptualizing, building, and analyzing their own …
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Interaction, Power, and The Institution: Uncovering the Negotiations that Organize the Planning Work of Social Studies Teachers
With the proliferation of standards and accountability systems in education, questions about how they function and intersect with broader patterns of institutional relations await investigation. The existing literature in social studies education is replete with studies that frame teachers' …
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Managing creativity in magazine publishing: the 4Ps of creativity
… first formal English dictionary entry at the end of 19th Century (Kaufman & Glaveneau 2019) to becoming central in the re-branding of cultural industries as creative (Hesmondhalgh & Baker 2011) in the proceeding century. However, despite being studied with academic rigour since the 1950s (Sawyer …
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The Embers of Allah: cosmologies, knowledge, and relations in the mountains of central Bosnia
This thesis is a study of living Islam and Muslims’ lifeworlds in the margins of the postsocialist world, in the mountains of central Bosnia. Its main scope is an analysis of the scales of relatedness and the domains of knowledge traditions that assemble Muslims’ lifeworlds as tangible, coherent …
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Architecture is co: an ethnography of architectural presentations and representations in Copenhagen
This dissertation explores some of the ways in which architecture and design were practised in the Danish capital of Copenhagen at the end of the 2010s. In 2018, a building called BLOX was opened on Copenhagen’s harbour front after more than a decade-long period of design, planning and …
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More than global mindedness: a mixed method exploration of a us-mexico collaboration project on american secondary students' understanding of global food supply and 21st century skills
… to deepen their understanding and awareness of other cultures (affective domain of attitudes) and build skills necessary for the 21st century (psychomotor domain of skills) as they address a real world problem. This awareness can be quantified as Global Mindedness (GM), defined as a worldview …
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