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Stoel, G. L.; van Drie, J. P.; van Boxtel, C. A. M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
The present study seeks to develop a pedagogy aimed at fostering a student's ability to reason causally about history. The Model of Domain Learning was used as a framework to align domain-specific content with pedagogical principles. Developing causal historical reasoning was conceptualized as a multidimensional process, in which knowledge of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Pretests Posttests, Epistemology
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van Velzen, Joke H. – Educational Studies, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore adolescent students' explanations of their knowledge of learning processes. The explanations of 11th-grade high-school and first-year university students were qualitatively analysed to examine the kinds of explanations that were made regarding knowledge of cognitive knowledge ("n"?=?25), knowledge…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Learning Processes, High School Students, Grade 11
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Prins, Gjalt T.; Bulte, Astrid M. W.; van Driel, Jan H.; Pilot, Albert – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
In science education, students should come to understand the nature and significance of models. In the case of chemistry education it is argued that the present use of models is often not meaningful from the students' perspective. A strategy to overcome this problem is to use an authentic chemical modelling practice as a context for a curriculum…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Chemistry, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction