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Christina Krist; Soo-Yean Shim – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Teaching to support students' sense-making is challenging. It requires continuous, context-dependent decision-making about which student ideas to pursue, when, how, and why. This paper presents a single case study of an experienced teacher, Nadine, as an illustrative case in order to provide a rich description of this teacher's decisional…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Educational Practices, Decision Making, Students
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Anna Marie Bergman; Andrew Kercher; Keith Gallagher; Rina Zazkis – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
Definitions are an integral aspect of mathematics. In particular, they form the backbone of deductive reasoning and facilitate precision in mathematical communication. However, when multiple non-equivalent definitions for the same term exist, their ability to serve these purposes can be called into question. While ambiguity can be productive, the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Mathematics, Ambiguity (Semantics), Abstract Reasoning
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Michael Vazquez; Dustin Webster – Educational Theory, 2024
In this paper Michael Vazquez and Dustin Webster consider the practice of deliberating about ethical case studies as a means to contribute to the professional development of educators. An ongoing debate is whether or not the study of ethical theory should be included in this practice. Vazquez and Webster argue that a popular strategy, known as the…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Faculty Development
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Rigas Neofotistos; Ioannis Starakis; Krystallia Halkia – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
The present work refers to a study of 10-12-year-old students' ideas on the self- or hetero-luminosity of the Moon. To check the validity of students' reasoning on this question, we also examined their ideas on the lunar phases and how we see hetero-luminous objects. Students supported their ideas on the self- or hetero-luminosity of the Moon by…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Education, Astronomy
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Hodiyanto; Mega Teguh Budiarto; Rooselyna Ekawati; Gemi Susanti; Jeonghyeon Kim; Ebenezer Bonyah – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2024
Abstraction is essential to learning mathematics because the mathematical concepts obtained through abstraction will be more meaningful than directly receiving these concepts. This study aims to describe the pre-service teachers' abstraction in constructing relationships among quadrilaterals. This research method was explorative qualitative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Logic, Geometric Concepts
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Yuchen Tian; Gorana T. González; Tara M. Mandalaywala – Developmental Science, 2024
Although actual experiences of upward social mobility are historically low, many adolescents and adults express a "belief" in social mobility (e.g., that social status can change). Although a belief in upward mobility (e.g., that status can improve) can be helpful for economically disadvantaged adolescents and adults, a belief in upward…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Beliefs, Social Mobility, Young Children
Kayla Lock – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The ideas of measurement and measurement comparisons (e.g., fractions, ratios, quotients) are introduced to students in elementary school. However, studies report that students of all ages have difficulty comparing two quantities in terms of their relative size. Students often understand fractions such as 3/7 as part-whole relationships or…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Calculus, Measurement
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Alison Mirin; Dov Zazkis; Andre Rouhani – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
In order to learn more about student understanding of the structure of proofs, we generated a novel genre of tasks called "Proof Without Claim" (PWC). Our work can be viewed as an extension of Selden and Selden's (1995) construct of "proof framework"; while Selden and Selden discuss how the structure of a proof can be discerned…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Validity, Mathematical Logic, Task Analysis
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Samuel L. Tunstall – Numeracy, 2023
An important consideration in the design and development of numeracy-focused coursework is ensuring that one meets students where they are with respect to both their mathematics background and their existing numeracy practices in relation to public issues. The latter consideration is especially important, given that students already think about…
Descriptors: College Students, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Public Policy
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Schuessler, Rudolf – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
Interest in the role of casuistry and casuistical questions in Kant's "Doctrine of Virtue" ("DV"), i.e. the second part of the "Metaphysics of Morals," has grown in recent years. My own position is formulated in Schuessler (2012, in German), the main thesis of which will be retained here in an updated form and with…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Abstract Reasoning, Moral Values, Values Education
Rosanne Magarelli – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this proposed quantitative, ex post facto, comparative study with a pretest-posttest design was to assess gains in overall Critical Thinking (CT) skills, and particularly in the Hypothetical-deductive Reasoning (HDR) skills, for pre-health college students tested before and after a Critical Analyses in Science course they attended…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Process Skills, Critical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning
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Thembinkosi Peter Mkhatshwa – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
This article reports on a qualitative investigation into students' thinking about a differential equations problem posing task; i.e. an initial value problem. Analysis of written and verbal responses to the task indicate that only four of the 34 students who participated in the study were successful in posing problems. Furthermore, only one of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Equations (Mathematics), Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills
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Melania Bernabeu; Mar Moreno; Salvador Llinares – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
This study identifies characteristics of polygon class learning opportunities for 8-9-year-old children during the whole-class instruction. We consider the interplay between the geometrical tasks demanding different ways of reasoning, features of children's geometrical thinking, and the teacher's moves to identify characteristics of learning…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Smid, Claire R.; Kool, Wouter; Hauser, Tobias U.; Steinbeis, Nikolaus – Developmental Science, 2023
Human decision-making is underpinned by distinct systems that differ in flexibility and associated cognitive cost. A widely accepted dichotomy distinguishes between a cheap but rigid model-free system and a flexible but costly model-based system. Typically, humans use a hybrid of both types of decision-making depending on environmental demands.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Models, Abstract Reasoning, Young Children
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Funkhouser, Ava; Nicoladis, Elena – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
University students are often asked to learn abstract concepts. Abstract concepts are hard to learn. Giving specific examples can help learning abstract concepts. These examples might limit understanding to the similarities between the abstract domain and particular examples. The primary purpose of this study was to test whether exposure to…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Abstract Reasoning, Psychology, Introductory Courses
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