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Showing 1 to 20 of 6098 for “"thinking"”.
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Wishful Thinking
The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who left has decided to come back. What it means to be the one left behind. Among those who come back are a cousin who married …
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Thinking Architecture
Sacred spaces have long existed due to their importance as a symbol of belief. Structures are designed to be timeless and forever lasting, representing the essence of faith. In this case, a Mosque has been designed for a site in La Jolla, California, keeping the sacred practices of the religion in …
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Thinking Long Distance
<p>The contents included here consist of the research, editing, and rehearsal process for the written script, as well as the live performance. There is also a brief analysis of the process, and documentation of how to proceed with the piece in its current state, or if any additions will be made. …
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Thinking through Objects
Thinking through objects: is the culmination of my research on objects and design. It is a reflection of my interest in the concise construction of a three dimensional object from cut, manipulated, and glued sheets of paper. As a material, paper has an implied commonness, familiarity, fragility, …
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Thinking Within Architecture
With historic ruins as a project vehicle, this thesis investigates connections to an existing structure through materials and spatial relationships. The proposed intervention, guided by design elements and preservation methods, reflects a sensitive approach and provides a transition between our …
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"Dialogical-thinking reading lessons: Promoting critical thinking among ""learning-disabled"" students"
… reading instruction that emphasizes critical thinking would benefit ""learning-disabled"" fifth grade students. Seven students were assigned to the instructional group and seven to the comparison group. The instructional group participated in a program of ten dialogical-thinking reading …
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Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills
<p>In summaries of “best practices” for pedagogy, one typically encounters enthusiastic advocacy for <em>metacognition. </em>Some researchers assert that the body of evidence supplied by decades of education studies indicates a clear pedagogical imperative: that if one wants their students to learn …
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"The Hazards of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking in Infinite Jest
<p>This paper is about self-consciousness and how it figures in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>. Because <em>Infinite Jest </em>is such a large novel (1079 pages, including the indispensable footnotes), it serves, like other large novels before it, as a kind of encyclopedia of …
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Collaborative systems thinking : an exploration of the mechanisms enabling team systems thinking
… engineers as a new unit of systems knowledge and thinking. By understanding more about how teams engage in collaborative systems thinking (CST), organizations can better determine which types of training and intervention will lead to greater exchanges of systems-level knowledge within teams. …
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Journaling for Critical Thinking
… testing and the effect it was having on critical thinking. He hypothesized improved journaling techniques would facilitate the connection between class participation and student art projects.A review of the solution strategy revealed a need to adjust the number of pages required, provide more …
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Scientific thinking in kindergarten
Contains fulltext : 170681.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster
… that can worsen into the future. Evaluative thinking—which largely involves critical thinking, valuing, and other dynamic processes—may be ubiquitously useful to practitioners, scholars, and others from both these fields of practice. In this dissertation, I referenced the dual systems theory …
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Collaboratively Learning Computational Thinking
… a positive atmosphere to learning Computational Thinking (CT). There is, however, limited research focusing on how natural collaborative interactions among learners manifest during learning of computational concepts. Structured as a manuscript style dissertation, this doctoral study investigates …
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Divergent thinking and hemisphericity
… investigated the relationship between divergent thinking, assessed by the Product Improvement and Unusual Uses tests of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (1974), and hemisphericity. Hemisphericity, cerebral hemispheric dominance for language function, was assessed by a dichotic listening …
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“Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking?” Objective vs Subjective Elaboration and Resistance to Persuasion
… capture the actual extent of message-relevant thinking, such as thought listings) or subjective measures (e.g., those that capture self-reported perceptions of elaboration, such as rating scales). Although both approaches are used, the distinction between objective and subjective measures of …
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Thinking about thinking: Investigating the co-development of metacognition, self-control and ToM
Metacognition, the ability to reflect on and control our own thoughts, is traditionally considered to onset in middle childhood. However, in the last decade, the general consensus regarding the development of metacognition has changed. Researchers have argued that children as young as 3 or 4 have …
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Theoretical Development of Creative Thinking: The Role of Integrative Thinking and Social Cognition
Creative thinking is the psychological mechanism underlying the descriptive process that produces real-life creative outcomes. However, the connection between individual creative thinking and real-life creativity remains unclear. For example, the widely employed psychometric tools for creative …
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Workplace culture and critical thinking.
Workplace culture and critical thinking.
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