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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"conceptual knowledge"”.
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Underlying Cognitive Components and Conceptual Knowledge in Arithmetic
… cognition there is extensive research on conceptual knowledge of arithmetic operations. There is also extensive research on the link between mathematical ability and spatial ability. This research study seeks to build on both areas of research and identify ways in which they are …
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Describing the Development of Conceptual Knowledge About Evolution
… of two analytical approaches for tracking conceptual learning. The results show that the pattern-based analysis of the ACORNS items accurately reflects the progression of conceptual learning. The concept maps effectively illustrate the development of conceptual knowledge, and the findings …
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Using Writing Assignments to Promote Conceptual Knowledge Development in Engineering Statics
… links between short writing assignments and conceptual knowledge development in statics courses. The theoretical framework of the study draws on elements from cognitive learning theory: expertise, procedural and conceptual knowledge development, and conceptual change. The way that students …
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The Development of a Test of Conceptual Knowledge Basic to The Teaching of Arithmetic
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The Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations Impacting Conceptual Knowledge and Proficiency of Laboratory Techniques in an Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratory Course
… Virtual labs were designed to enhance users’ knowledge on basic scientific techniques and promote career awareness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics related to food safety. An insufficient amount of research has studied the effects of virtual simulation on users’ conceptual …
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"Measuring ""To Think Mathematically"": Cognitive Characterization of Achievement Levels in Performance-Based Assessment"
… a variety of achievement levels, such as good conceptual knowledge with poor procedural knowledge, good procedural knowledge with poor conceptual knowledge, or good communicating skills with poor mathematical understanding. Therefore, holistic scores are not sufficient to identify achievement …
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Success in Science: The Power of Writing on Attitudes and Knowledge Acquisition in Middle School Science
… to scientific literacy and writing to articulate knowledge. This project explores a science curriculum that uses diverse resources like children's literature, poetry, nature journals, and writing prompts to explore learning and attitudes in the middle school science classroom. Researchers …
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An investigation into the teaching and learning of shape and space concepts in the reception year
… Geometry. In general, they showed little conceptual knowledge, which often resulted in practical, integrated teaching methods which did not extend their learners' conceptual knowledge.
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Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision
… learned by these models and human conceptual understanding. We introduce a novel approximate Bayesian method for learning object concept representations from human behavior in a triplet odd-one-out task. The method uses variational inference to produce sparse, non-negative …
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Middle School Teachers' Familiarity with, Interest in, Performance on, and Conceptual and Pedagogical Knowledge of Light
… school teachers' familiarity with, interest in, conceptual knowledge of and performance on light; Examine their ability to identify misconceptions on light and their suggested pedagogical ideas to address the identified misconceptions; and Establish the relationship between the middle school …
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Social-semantic knowledge and behavioural changes in frontotemporal dementia
… dementia (FTD) associated with a degradation of conceptual knowledge following atrophy in the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). Recent research in FTD has begun to focus on social-semantic knowledge, and its relationship to the known behavioural changes in this disorder. The aims of the thesis were …
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Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
… interdependence of general and domain-specific conceptual knowledge, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, attitude, motivation and context in the process of bidirectional ItalianΓåöEnglish transfer in Italian undergraduates comprehending domain-specific texts in the Faculty of Economics, …
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Assessing fundamental introductory computing concept knowledge in a language independent manner
… enable both research into how understanding of knowledge in the domain develops as well as enable curricular innovation and reform grounded in this knowledge. My dissertation work focused on three questions regarding assessment of introductory concepts in computer science. How can existing test …
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The role of sleep in consolidation of multi-item bound representations
… part this has been suggested to be affected by conceptual knowledge, with items with pre-existing conceptual knowledge easier to encode and thus, more salient in subsequent representations. However, it is not known how this may affect different item modalities such as actions, objects, people, …
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Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change
… about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naïve knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific understanding. Until recently, a key …
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High School Calculus: Is AP Calculus the best option?
… AP Calculus exemplar unit that provides deeper conceptual knowledge of the slope, connected to the derivative, which may better prepare students for their college mathematics career. High school is a place to encourage students to accomplish their goals and better preparation at the high school …
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Haven’t I seen you before? Prior familiarity can impair or enhance face recognition memory
… of varying levels of prior familiarity and conceptual knowledge on face recognition memory in nine experiments. In all experiments, prior familiarity was manipulated using a 3-phase (familiarization, study, and recognition test) procedure. Participants were presented with static face …
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Exploratory identification of introductory algebra-based physics success factors
… was found to depend only on desire for conceptual knowledge and meaningful learning. It was also determined that students with scientific reasoning skills did not prefer the traditional lecture-centered educational environment.
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