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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"thinking processes"”.
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An Investigation of the Test-Taking Skills and Associated Thinking Processes of Ninth Grade English Language Arts Students
… addition, she examined students' metacognitive processes as they participated in bi-monthly audio-taped classroom discussions of their thinking on specific multiple-choice items. After each of these discussions, all students independently wrote to a common prompt in their journals to articulate …
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A Use of Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes for Improvements in the Merged Beams Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
<p>Thinking exercises used in the Theory of Constraints (TOC) were used to find and remove constraints at the Merged Beams Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal of this project was to significantly reduce the amount of time used to take a certain type of measurement during an …
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The growth of school mathematics : Korean secondary gifted students' collaborative problem solving using the Wiki
… cognitive tool by coalescing individual thinking processes into collective thinking processes on the one hand and by distributing cognitive loads of problem solving over individual cognitions along the logic of solutions and refutations on the other hand. This study provides evidence that …
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The Influence of the Jefferson-Centennial Practicum on the Self-Efficacy of Five Social Studies Student Teachers
… teachers in understanding their own critical thinking processes to aid them in the development of interesting and relevant lessons from textbook content.
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Algorithmic Meta-Creativity
… many ways, we have different ‘brains/memory’, ‘thinking processes/software’ and ‘bodies/hardware’. Often creative output by machines is judged in human terms. Computers which are truly artificially intelligent might be capable of true artificial creativity. Until then, they are (philosophical) …
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Landscapes of Imagination: A Critical Analysis of Art Textbooks
… the creative process, synthesis and higher level thinking processes, multiple representations of knowledge, and the aesthetic features of the textbooks. Four secondary art textbooks were analyzed, and a sample chapter was presented showing a design for a high school art textbook that was highly …
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Literacy, new capitalism, and new work orders: Case studies from school-to-work education
… by increased technologization, accrediting processes, team-building, and a requirement for independent critical thinking on the part of workers. The two school-to-work programs included in the dissertation are biotechnology and nursing. Both were sited in a two-year urban community college …
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Thinking Skills in Young Adult Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Thirty Novels
… project provides teachers a method of teaching thinking skills to students through the use of specific adolescent novels. Thirty novels were selected with an attempt at an even distribution between male and female protagonists, first and third person point of view. A large number of novels were …
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Medieval Islamic and Gothic architectural drawings : masons, craftsmen and architects
… have left us with no textual evidence of their thinking processes, their drawings offer valuable sources through which their approach to design and construction can be investigated. Focusing on the early architectural drawings of the medieval period, this thesis will explore the intersections …
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Lessons Learned from Designing a Comprehensive Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) Tool for Support of Complex Thinking
… reasoning (CBR) tool for support of complex thinking skills. Theorists have historically identified, analyzed, and classified different thinking processes and skills. Thinking skills have been increasingly emphasized in national standards, state testing, curricula, teaching and learning …
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Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition
… expect us to foster critical reading, critical thinking, and critical writing skills in students from a wide variety of disciplines. Compounding these challenges are large class sizes and shrinking budgets. However, many scholars assert that visual thinking is an essential part of the learning …
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I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth
… thinkers operate via different thinking processes. It asserts that there is an inextricable link between the imagination and intellect and that the primary distinction between the cognitive abilities of scholars and artists is not the thinking process itself but rather the …
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The PowerPoint Society: The Influence of PowerPoint in the U.S. Government and Bureaucracy
… influencing the decision-making and critical thinking processes of individuals and organizations, particularly within the military and government. This is accomplished through the visual reception of the briefings themselves, where and when the theatrical nature of the presentation takes …
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A substrate for accountable layered systems
… the automatic collection of audit trails for all processes, including the processes that analyze audit trails. My system natively supports a Lisp-like language. In such a language, as in machine language, a program is data that can be easily manipulated by a program, making it easier for a user or …
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Cognitive mechanisms associated with psychological adjustment to military deployments
This thesis investigated autobiographical memory processes and associated cognitive mechanisms relevant for adjustment to military deployments amongst currently serving soldiers. Experimental paradigms were conducted with soldiers whilst deployed and when recently returned home to Australia. Study …
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Realizations of Two Speech Acts of Heritage Learners of Korean: Request and Apology Strategies
… to the interview questions regarding the thinking processes that they experienced while performing on the DCT. Participants' performances on DCT and interview were audiotaped and transcribed for analysis. The request and apology data were analyzed using a coding scheme adapted from the …
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The Traces of a Traveller: Textile-Based Narrative in Contemporary Art Practices
… will be discussed. The research will explore the thinking processes and the creative source materials of metaphorical textiles through various representational media. Textile vocabulary is regarded as a metaphor and simile to my art practice, as well as in developing a creative method and research …
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Organising for Advertising Creativity: Differential Effects of Agency Structure, Absorptive Capacity, and Abrasion on Originality and Appropriateness
… that focuses primarily on the creative thinking process and has highly specialist personnel concentrating on creative ideation. However, unlike the majority of research on creativity, the aim of this thesis was to shed light on a range of interactive, processing capacity, and knowledge …
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The linkages across listening, speaking, reading, drawing and writing
… the linkages between and across the language processes of listening, speaking, reading, drawing and writing as well as the meanings displayed within and across these modes in children’s response to story. Eight first grade children whose reading levels represented a range of low to …
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Designing Inclusivity: Reconstructing the Meaning of the Seven Pointed Star Symbol in the Jordanian Flag through Design Thinking
… been an investigation structured around Design Thinking processes using a mixture of qualitative methods integrated with a social science methodology. The qualitative data collection methods involved close contact between the research participants and the author in such a way that emergent …
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