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Toward a Framework for Assessing the Quality of Students' Social Scientific Reasoning
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Klijnstra, Thomas; Stoel, Gerhard L.; Ruijs, Gerard J. F.; Savenije, Geerte M.; van Boxtel, Carla A. M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
This study aims to describe components and levels of upper secondary social science students' reasoning about social problems. We consulted conceptualizations of social scientific reasoning in sociology textbooks and social science education literature, analyzed student papers, and conducted focus groups with social science teachers and teacher…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Thinking Skills, Science and Society, Social Sciences
How to Assess Students' Structure-Property Reasoning?
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Marie-Jetta den Otter; Ludo B. F. Juurlink; Fred J. J. M. Janssen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
This paper describes the design of an instrument to assess secondary school students' proficiency in structure-property reasoning (SPR). Design criteria for the instrument required that it should be based on a comprehensive model for structure-property reasoning, assess both reproductive and productive use of structure-property reasoning, be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry
Secondary Students' Considerations of Variability in Measurement Activities Based on Authentic Practices
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Dierdorp, Adri; Bakker, Arthur; Ben-Zvi, Dani; Makar, Katie – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
Measurement activities were designed in this study on the basis of authentic professional practices in which linear regression is used, to study considerations of variability by students in Grade 12 (aged 17-18). The question addressed in this article is: In what ways do secondary students consider variability within these measurement activities?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 12, Measurement
Improving Reasoning Skills in Secondary History Education by Working Memory Training
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Ariës, Roel Jacobus; Groot, Wim; van den Brink, Henriette Maassen – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
Secondary school pupils underachieve in tests in which reasoning abilities are required. Brain-based training of working memory (WM) may improve reasoning abilities. In this study, we use a brain-based training programme based on historical content to enhance reasoning abilities in history courses. In the first experiment, a combined intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, History Instruction
Proportional Reasoning in the Laboratory: An Intervention Study in Vocational Education
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Bakker, Arthur; Groenveld, Djonie; Wijers, Monica; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Gravemeijer, Koeno P. E. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2014
Based on insights into the nature of vocational mathematical knowledge, we designed a computer tool with which students in laboratory schools at senior secondary vocational school level could develop a better proficiency in the proportional reasoning involved in dilution. We did so because we had identified computations of concentrations of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Intervention, Secondary School Students, Laboratory Schools
Authentic Practices as Contexts for Learning to Draw Inferences beyond Correlated Data
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Dierdorp, Adri; Bakker, Arthur; Eijkelhof, Harrie; van Maanen, Jan – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2011
To support 11th-grade students' informal inferential reasoning, a teaching and learning strategy was designed based on authentic practices in which professionals use correlation or linear regression. These practices included identifying suitable physical training programmes, dyke monitoring, and the calibration of measurement instruments. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Abstract Reasoning, Grade 11, Secondary School Students