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González-Espada, Wilson J.; Gallenstein, Kathryn; Collins, Katelyn – Physics Teacher, 2022
The use of analogies is a well-known teaching strategy to bridge unfamiliar and familiar concepts. However, analogies may become ineffective if the familiar concept is not familiar anymore. For example, this may occur when we describe rotational sense as clockwise and counterclockwise, assuming students know how to read a clock with hour and…
Descriptors: Students, Logical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Concept Formation
Bardikoff, Nicole; Sabbagh, Mark A. – Child Development, 2021
An important aspect of executive functioning is the ability to flexibly switch between behavioral rules. This study explored how considering the multidimensionality of objects affects behavioral rule switching in 3-year-old children. In Study 1 (N = 40), children who participated in a brief game separating and aggregating an object's dimensions…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Executive Function, Games
Canessa, Enrique; Chaigneau, Sergio E.; Moreno, Sebastián – Cognitive Science, 2021
In the property listing task (PLT), participants are asked to list properties for a concept (e.g., for the concept "dog," "barks," and "is a pet" may be produced). In conceptual property norming (CPNs) studies, participants are asked to list properties for large sets of concepts. Here, we use a mathematical model of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Concept Formation, Semantics, Visual Impairments
Xiaolei Hu; Shuqi Zhang; Xiaomian Wu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The starting reasoning and promoting switch from intuitive system 1 to deliberate system 2 for provoking creative thinking is lacking feasible model, especially during the global pandemic. We established a visible, trainable and learnable (VTL) model with digital technique to promote this dual switch for creative thinking. This study was…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Innovation, Foreign Countries
Kristína Czekóová; Tomáš Urbánek – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
An accurate assessment of cognitive abilities in populations that differ from the majority in cultural and linguistic characteristics is one of the main challenges in cognitive testing. Previously developed methods for assessment of the validity of cognitive scores in individuals with diverse backgrounds, such as the Culture-Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Test Validity, Abstract Reasoning
Rockwell F. Clancy; Qin Zhu – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Research in engineering ethics has assessed the ethical reasoning of students mostly in the US. However, it is not clear that ethical judgements are primarily the result of reasoning or that conclusions based on US samples would be true of global populations. China now graduates and employs more STEM majors than any other country, but the moral…
Descriptors: Ethics, Abstract Reasoning, Moral Values, Intuition
Timothy H. Lehmann – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this study is to examine how algorithmatizing tasks engage mathematics students in algorithmic thinking. Structured, task-based interviews were conducted with eight Year 12 students as they completed a sequence of algorithmatizing tasks involving maximum flow problems. A deductive-inductive analytical process was used to first classify…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Grade 12, Mathematics Instruction
Lauren C. Bauman; Trà Hu?nh; Amy D. Robertson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Literature on student ideas about circuits largely focuses on misunderstandings and difficulties, with seminal papers framing student thinking as stable, difficult to change, and connected to incorrect ontological categorizations of current as a thing rather than a process. In this paper, we analyzed 417 student responses to a conceptual question…
Descriptors: Physics, Sequential Learning, Abstract Reasoning, Electronic Equipment
Panorkou, Nicole; Germia, Erell – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
In this article, we address a call by Thompson and Carlson to directly contribute to defining the variation of students' reasoning about varying quantities. We show that students as young as in sixth grade can engage in complex forms of reasoning about multiple quantities in contexts that involve exploring science phenomena using interactive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills
Hoggan-Kloubert, Tetyana; Hoggan, Chad – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
Contemporary society is experiencing an epistemic crisis, evidenced by such "post-truth" phenomena as "alternative facts." Traditional notions related to knowledge and Truth have been under continual, partly justifiable, attack under the eclectic banner of postmodernism, and alternative epistemic foundations (essential for…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Abstract Reasoning, Personal Autonomy, Cultural Pluralism
Supply, Anne-Sophie; Vanluydt, Elien; Van Dooren, Wim; Onghena, Patrick – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Findings on children's proportional reasoning abilities strongly vary across studies. This might be due to the different contexts that can be used in proportional problems: fair-sharing, mixtures, and probability. A review of the scientific literature suggests that the context of proportional problems may not only impact the difficulty of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Young Children, Problem Solving
Iwuanyanwu, Paul Nnanyereugo – Research in Science Education, 2023
Effective science education draws on many different ways of teaching science. The literature on science education documents some potential benefits of argumentation instruction as a powerful tool for learning science and maintaining wonder and curiosity in the classroom. Unlike expository teaching, which relies on a teacher-driven pedagogy in…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Duong, Quang Hung; Pham, To Nhu; Reynolds, Lorenna; Yeap, Yan; Walker, Steven; Lyons, Kayley – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Therapeutic reasoning is when the purpose, task, or goal for engaging in reasoning is to determine the patient's management plan. As the field's understanding of the process of therapeutic reasoning is less well understood, we focused on studies that collected data on the process of therapeutic reasoning. To synthesize previous studies of…
Descriptors: Therapy, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Renata Teófilo de Sousa; Francisco Régis Vieira Alves; Ana Paula Aires – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2023
This work is the result of a pre-experiment carried out as part of a master's course, dealing with the study of the parabola through different mathematical views. It aims to recognize possible didactic obstacles in its teaching, based on intuitive manifestations in the resolution of a didactic situation based on GeoGebra software. The methodology…
Descriptors: Intuition, Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
William P. McCarthy; David Kirsh; Judith E. Fan – Cognitive Science, 2023
The ability to reason about how things were made is a pervasive aspect of how humans make sense of physical objects. Such reasoning is useful for a range of everyday tasks, from assembling a piece of furniture to making a sandwich and knitting a sweater. What enables people to reason in this way even about novel objects, and how do people draw…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Scientific Concepts, Manipulative Materials, Task Analysis