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Download full textAlberto J. Cañas; Priit Reiska; Oleg Shvaikovsky – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2023
It is widely accepted that concept maps are a meaningful learning tool. Even so, the use of concept mapping as a meaningful learning tool is probably less common than the use of concept mapping as an assessment tool. In first place, the easiest thing to with a student's concept map is to apply a rubric and give it a grade. And second, teachers…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Elementary Schools
Direct linkGodínez-Sandí, A.; Fallas-Padilla, D.; España-Tapia, S.; Zúñiga-Villegas, A.; Castro, Milena; Herrera-Sancho, O. A. – Physics Education, 2018
Primary level education follows a pedagogy model where literature and science have been historically separated. Natural children processes are disrupted, as learning based on play curiosity is completely transformed by a chalkboard model. Specific experimental realizations can link thinking processes based on science to study problems…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Harshman, Denise Galvez – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study applied four frameworks from academic literature in the areas of leadership, change process, 21st-century skills, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) project-based learning (PBL) to understand the various factors providing for success and participation of a school in the national science fair initiative (Programa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Leadership Responsibility, Leadership Styles
Esquivel-Alfaro, Juan Manuel; Diaz-Solis, Sofia Maria – 1989
This study had three purposes. First, to develop and validate a criterion-referenced test to measure science knowledge of students who finished the second cycle of the Basic General Education (6th grade). Second, to assess the performance of the entire Costa Rican population of sixth graders and, third, to analyze the results according to some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary School Science
Edwards, Laurie D. – 1994
This paper reports on a pilot study of 34 sixth-grade students engaged in mathematical explorations that was carried out in the context of a national Logo project in Costa Rica. Students worked in pairs investigating a mathematical microworld written in Logo. The investigation had three phases: (1) open exploration of the microworld, during which…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Discussion Groups, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Students
Edwards, Laurie D. – Educational Technology, 1994
Reports on a pilot study that examined use by sixth-grade students in Costa Rica of a mathematical microworld written in LOGO. The investigation had three phases: (1) open exploration of the microworld; (2) group discussion and sharing of hypotheses; and (3) guided discovery and problem solving. (Contains 11 references.) (SLW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning
