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Direct linkAnna van der Meulen; Mijke Hartendorp; Wendy Voorn; Felienne Hermans – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: In order to fully include learners with visual impairments in early programming education, it is necessary to gain insight into specificities regarding their experience of and approach to abstract computational concepts. Objective: In this study, we use the model of the layers of abstraction to explore how learners with…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Programming
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
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
Lazonder, Ard W.; Janssen, Noortje; Gijlers, Hannie; Walraven, Amber – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Scientific reasoning refers to the thinking skills involved in conceiving and conducting an investigation. This study examined how proficiency in performing these skills develops during the upper-elementary school years. A sample of 157 children (age 7-10) took a performance-based scientific reasoning test in three consecutive years. Four distinct…
Descriptors: Child Development, Skill Development, Gender Differences, Thinking Skills
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
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
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
van Oers, Bert – Human Development, 2012
The article describes a theory-driven approach to meaningful learning in primary schools, based on the Vygotskian cultural-historical theory of human development and learning. This approach is elaborated into an educational concept called "developmental education" that is implemented in the Netherlands in many primary schools. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Education, Learning, Elementary Education
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
Webb, David C.; van der Kooij, Henk; Geist, Monica R. – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2011
This article describes Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), a design theory for mathematics education proposed by Hans Freudenthal and developed over 40 years of developmental research at the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in the Netherlands. Activities from a unit to develop student understanding of logarithms are…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
Download full textvan Oers, Bert; Poland, Marielle – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2007
One of the missions of education is to prepare children for complex tasks that occur in their cultural environment. By means of abstracting, the effects of this complexity can be reduced. Recent research and theoretical development show us that young children already seem to be able to think abstractly. The acknowledgement of this potential in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Cultural Context, Abstract Reasoning
Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education
