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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Students' understandings"”.
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Feedback in Higher Education: Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Feedback
… However, its effectiveness largely depends on students’ willingness and ability to engage with the feedback process. This engagement requires students to seek, understand, generate and utilise feedback, but these skills can only develop when they recognise the value of feedback and see …
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Perceptions of Leadership: An Analysis of College Students' Understandings of the Concept of Leadership
… have embraced the goal of developing students' leadership capacity. Diverse curricular and co-curricular leadership programs currently exist and continue to be developed to address leadership development outcomes. There is, however, limited understanding of how college students think …
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STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF ACID-BASE REACTIONS INVESTIGATED THROUGH THEIR CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES AND THE ACID-BASE REACTIONS CONCEPT INVENTORY
… of the curriculum in many chemistry courses. Students’ knowledge about acid-base reactions is dependent on their ability to transfer knowledge from multiple topics such as solutions, reaction chemistry, and structure/property relationships, making it a ripe area for research. Student …
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Use of Multiple Representations to Explore Students’ Understandings of Covalent and Ionic Bonding as Measured by the Bonding Representations Inventory
… of bonding poses several challenges as some students struggle to identify the ionic and covalent nature of bonds within a variety of compounds. The topic is formally introduced in both middle school and secondary education (grades 6-12) and reintroduced in the undergraduate general chemistry …
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Exploring the Impact of an Online Leadership Course on Japanese Undergraduates' Conceptions of Leadership
… of leadership education in higher education on students’ understandings of leadership in the Japanese context. This study aims to understand how Japanese college students reshape their understandings of the postindustrial model of leadership through taking an online leadership course.</p> …
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Atomic emission misconceptions as investigated through student interviews and measured by the Flame Test Concept Inventory
… arises from the limited experiences that students have with some abstract concepts first introduced during chemistry classes. The abstract concept of atomic emission is formally introduced during secondary education in the U.S. science curriculum. The topic is re-introduced in the first …
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Critical thinking and Empathy in the Helping Professions
… for this term. In previous research, examining students’ understandings and discursive uses of critical thinking, empathy was occasionally implicated in a relationship with critical thinking. This research project attempted to further examine students’ understandings of critical thinking and its …
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Using Portfolios to Assess Learning in Chemistry: One School's Story of Evolving Assessment Practice
… on three individual teachers and twelve of their students. The research focused on how teachers defined portfolios and implemented this assessment tool in their classrooms and how students and teachers perceived the use and value of the process. This study employed qualitative methodology using …
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College and Career Readiness of First Time in College Social Studies Students
… and post-secondary instruction by exploring the understandings and expectations of US history educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels. It is important to study how the realist philosophy inherent in state-mandated standards clashes with teachers’ and students’ understandings of what …
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Dialogue Journals: Literacy Transactions of Fourth-Grade Students
… of text. Writing could be the tool used for students to record these transactions that lead to their continuously changing, individualized understandings. Through journals, students conversed with one another using written dialogue in the continued generation or restructuring of existing …
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Success in Calculus I: implications of students' precalculus content knowledge and their awareness of that knowledge
… One often cited source of difficulty for students in Calculus I is their weak precalculus content knowledge. In this three-paper dissertation, I investigate Calculus I students' precalculus content knowledge and their awareness of that knowledge. In the first paper, I describe a …
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Perceptions of pedagogy for employability at a transnational university: A qualitative case study
… and learning related to employability from students and lecturers on undergraduate degree courses at Westminster International University, Tashkent, a transnational university in Uzbekistan. Using activity theory as the tool for analysis, this research investigated lecturers’ and students’ …
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Transformative non-confrontational multicultural education: an implicitly emancipatory elementary school contemporary Native American artists program
… education, both of which require engaging students in a confrontation of issues of conflict, such as racism, discrimination, and oppression, in order to promote students’ cognitive knowledge transformation towards more liberating perspectives. Existing literature does not show practicing …
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From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom
… "From Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students' Conceptions of Writing, Self, and Society in the Community Writing Classroom," examines the disconnect that characterizes much of the discussion of reflective writing in community writing studies and argues for the potential of reflexivity …
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Understanding and debugging concurrent programs through visualisation
… of a visualisation system intended to support students in understanding and debugging concurrent programs is presented. The first phase of development consisted of examining how students understand and develop concurrent programs through phenomenographic research. The resulting outcome spaces …
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Complexities and Dynamics of Korean Graduate Students' Textual Borrowing in Academic Writing
… and paraphrases. Second language (L2) English students are likely to use sources inappropriately and consequentially are accused of plagiarism based on a moral judgment. A body of research on textual borrowing including this study has provided strong evidence that these students' inappropriate …
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Making connections: Compartmentalization in pre -calculus students' understanding of functions
<p>Students develop knowledge constructs that they build into concepts through their experiences. Students demonstrate compartmentalization when they understand a construct or concept within one representation, but not another, or when they do not connect mathematically related ideas. For instance, …
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Moving toward a literature-based classroom in a middle school context
… the perceptions of the classroom teacher and her students of the significant aspects of moving toward a literature-based classroom and described the issues and problems related to making that move. A process of observing, interviewing, and audiotaping, videotaping, and participating in classroom …
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