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Montagna, Erik; Guerreiro, Juliano R.; Torres, Bayardo B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2010
The understanding of complex physiological processes requires information from many different areas of knowledge. To meet this interdisciplinary scenario, the ability of integrating and articulating information is demanded. The difficulty of such approach arises because, more often than not, information is fragmented through under graduation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biochemistry, Physiology, Biomedicine
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Everett, Susan A.; Otto, Charlotte A.; Luera, Gail R. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
We used four different methods to determine the best means of assessing over 200 preservice elementary teachers' growth in knowledge of models and their use in K-8 classrooms while participating in the Science Capstone course that focused on the unifying themes of models in science. Each assessment method probed a different aspect of models (from…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Prior Learning
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Farrell, Thomas S. C. – ELT Journal, 2009
How can teacher educators gauge what participants have learnt after taking a course in teaching English as a second language (TESL)? One method that can help both language teacher educators and their students trace conceptual changes as a result of taking a course is the use of concept maps. This paper examines the conceptual changes of a group of…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Maps, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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Seezink, Audrey; Poell, Rob F.; Kirschner, Paul A. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2009
Dutch prevocational secondary schools are reforming their educational programmes to make them more competence-based. This reform has substantial implications for the roles played by teachers. Yet, little empirical research has been conducted on teachers' processes of competence development in vocational settings. This study explores teachers'…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Secondary Education, Apprenticeships, Educational Change
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Baumfield, Vivienne M.; Hall, Elaine; Higgins, Steven; Wall, Kate – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This paper investigates how the use of Pupil Views Templates (PVTs), a tool designed to elicit, record and analyse the development of students' awareness of their own learning processes, supports teachers' professional learning. This paper reports on a three-year collaborative practitioner enquiry project involving more than 30 primary and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Interviews
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Crovitz, Darren; Miller, Jessica A. – English Journal, 2008
To "help students think carefully about specific words and their uses," Darren Crovitz and Jessica A. Miller conceive a diagram that visually expresses the spaces and ties between words. Students eagerly explore contextual connotations and defend subtle shifts in word meaning, discovering how time, use, and circumstance all influence meaning.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Concept Mapping, Instructional Materials, Cues