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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Thinking and Reasoning"”.
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One Problem, Two Contexts
… radically different contexts. Analysis of their thinking and reasoning as they worked to solve and explain each problem demonstrates that the thinking and reasoning that emerged in each problem responded to clear purposes that the problems elicited in these students. The first problem was posed …
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A Collection of Scientific Modeling Incorporated Units for Chemistry
… methodology to make content relatable, relevant and important to students. The problem with science content such as Chemistry, is the ability to make the abstract understandable and clear on a level students are able to grasp. With content that deals with the unseen, modeling practices let …
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Mothers’ perception of early childhood education as a function of ethnic background
… whether there are differences between Caucasian and non-Caucasian mothers was tested by Spearman's rank-difference correlation coefficient (rho). A total of 85 questionnaires were collected from a university-based preschool, a college-based daycare, and a community-based preschool. The mothers …
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Why Ask the Question?: A Study of Teacher Questioning during Discussion of Text
… development in the form of a teacher study group and a particular discussion approach, Collaborative Reasoning (CR) (Anderson, et al., 2001) upon teachers' questioning and students' levels of thinking during discussion of text. The study explored how five middle school teachers achieved a deeper …
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CernoCAMAL : a probabilistic computational cognitive architecture
… about domain model objects through perception, and how the probability formalism can be integrated into its BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) model to coalesce a number of mechanisms and processes.The motivation and impetus for extending CAMAL and developing CernoCAMAL is the considerable evidence …
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An Investigation of Teachers’ Noticing, Cognitive Demand, and Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Video Reflections in an Elementary Mathematics Context
… States, mathematics has consisted of arithmetic and computational fluency; however, mathematics researchers widely believe that this method of instruction does not enhance the development of mathematical reasoning and ignores the research on students’ mathematical development (Blanton & Kaput, …
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A study to investigate whether consistent cognitive functioning is characteristic of the child's performance on the Piagetean tests of number, space and time
… the most obvious facets of man's everyday thinking and reasoning and proposed to show that a rich developmental history underlies even his most common concepts. In so doing, Piaget has broached a topic which is so novel and compelling, and one which lays open such a vast field of research, …
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Tieteellinen ajattelu yliopisto-opinnoissa : haastattelututkimus psykologian, teologian ja farmasian opiskelijoista
… of this dissertation is to explore the academic thinking and personal epistemology of university students. More specifically, the aim is to understand and promote students’ research and academic skills as a central goal of academic studies in the research-intensive university of Helsinki. Two of …
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Potential Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis for Big Data and Machine Learning Integration in Evaluation
Data science and evaluation are two disciplines that could benefit enormously from successful integration. While data science can provide useful information in terms of statistics for any evaluation process, it as a subject can benefit from incorporating elements that investigate the value addition …
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Adult age differences in thinking styles and probabilistic reasoning : the effect of natural frequencies
Probabilistic reasoning is a distinct type of reasoning which previous evidence has found to be particularly difficult for both naive and expert participants in laboratory research. The current study looked at probabilistic reasoning performance in the light of dual- process theories of thinking …
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Bridging the Gap: Why Many High School Writers Are Not Successful In College Composition Classes
… define these writers who are leaving high school and finding difficulty in college composition classes. Patricia Bizzell defines basic writers as "those who are least well prepared for college" (Bizzell "What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College?" 294). I'd like to broaden her definition of …
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SCIENTIFIC REASONING:RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ASSESSMENT
Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is emphasized worldwide. Reports from large-scale international studies such as TIMSS and PISA continually rank U.S. students behind many other nations. As a result, the U.S. has increased its emphasis on the implementation of a more …
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A Novel Approach to Health and Safety in Construction: Culture, Ethics Reasoning and Leadership
Improvements to construction health and safety were driven by primary legislation promulgated in the 1970s and by subsequent regulations, codes and official guidance. In parallel social psychology, management and leadership theories were developing practical means for achieving health and safety …
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Dialogic education, historical thinking and epistemic beliefs: a design-based research study of teaching in Taiwanese classrooms
… of dialogue to facilitate students’ historical thinking and (2) the trajectory of historical personal epistemology through a design-based approach. Empirical evidence emerging in previous decades has acknowledged that good quality classroom dialogue could have a positive impact on students’ …
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A Bayesian framework for concept learning
… the need to learn from a rich (i.e. nested and overlapping) vocabulary of possible concepts and the need to be able to generalize concepts reasonably from only a few positive examples. I begin this thesis by considering a simple number concept game as a concrete illustration of this ability. …
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Believe It or Not: Examining the Case for Intuitive Logic and Effortful Beliefs
… (DI) account of belief-bias in human reasoning using the novel methodology introduced by Handley, Newstead & Trippas (2011). DI accounts focus on how our prior beliefs are the intuitive output that bias our reasoning process (Evans, 2006), whilst judgments based on logical validity …