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An Approach Based on Social Network Analysis Applied to a Collaborative Learning Experience
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Claros, Iván; Cobos, Ruth; Collazos, César A. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2016
The Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques allow modelling and analysing the interaction among individuals based on their attributes and relationships. This approach has been used by several researchers in order to measure the social processes in collaborative learning experiences. But oftentimes such measures were calculated at the final state…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Learning Experience
In Pursuit of a Connected Way of Knowing: The Case of One Mathematics Teacher
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Agudelo-Valderrama, Cecilia; Martínez, Diana – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
In this paper, we offer illustrations of a mathematics teacher's difficulties with content knowledge when trying to find connections between school mathematics and science; we do so by describing the development of this teacher's thinking and learning in her pursuit of connections between the concepts of slope of a line and density of matter. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Case Studies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Cultural Collision: The Interference of First Language Cultural Identity on Pragmatic Competence of the Target Language
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Liu, Yi-Fen Cecilia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2016
This reflective study explores a different perspective of intercultural communicative competency (ICC) by focusing on the speech acts that nonnative speakers of Spanish from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds find difficult to perform competently in various contexts in Colombia. This article covers a qualitative case study using…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Speech Acts, Spanish
Revisiting the Concept of Self-Efficacy as a Language Learning Enhancer
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García Gutiérrez, Carol Andrea; Durán Narváez, Norma Contanza – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
Individuals' self-efficacy beliefs determine the ways they perform in any domain, since they reflect the extent to which people feel capable to achieve certain accomplishments Bandura (1997). This paper describes how a group of intermediate school students' constant failure in the exams, demotivating attitudes, apathy and reluctance to learn…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grounded Theory
The History of the Project on Human Potential. Final Report.
Herzig, Margaret McCarthy – 1984
A five-year project that used evidence from a variety of disciplines and cultures to develop a framework to help educational policymakers identify ways of achieving the full range of human potential in a given population is described. The project sponsor is an international non-profit institution dedicated to the cause of disadvantaged children…
Descriptors: Biology, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
END 2015: International Conference on Education and New Developments. Conference Proceedings (Porto, Portugal, June 27-29, 2015)
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends