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Direct linkOliveira, Alandeom W.; Akerson, Valarie L.; Colak, Huseyin; Pongsanon, Khemmawadee; Genel, Abdulkadir – Science Education, 2012
This study explores how elementary teachers and students use hedges (tentative words such as "maybe") and boosters (expressions of certainty such as "clearly" and "obviously") during science inquiry discussions. Drawing upon semiotic theory, we examine explicit thematic patterns (semantic meaning relations among science concepts) as well as hidden…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Scientific Principles, Kindergarten
Pillow, Bradford H.; Pearson, RaeAnne M.; Hecht, Mary; Bremer, Amanda – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2010
Children and adults rated their own certainty following inductive inferences, deductive inferences, and guesses. Beginning in kindergarten, participants rated deductions as more certain than weak inductions or guesses. Deductions were rated as more certain than strong inductions beginning in Grade 3, and fourth-grade children and adults…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Logical Thinking, Inferences
Shirvani, Hosin – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2009
This study examines whether the instruction of an elementary mathematics education methodology course corresponds to constructivist learning. The participants were pre-service teachers in their senior year at a college in the southern part of the U.S. They were 49 students (3 men, 46 women) enrolled in three sections of a teacher certification…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Mathematics Education, Teacher Certification
