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Lubliner, David; Widmeyer, George; Deek, Fadi P. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
The objective of this study was to determine whether there was a quantifiable improvement in learning outcomes by integrating course materials in a 4-year baccalaureate program, utilizing a knowledge repository with a conceptual map that spans a discipline. Two new models were developed to provide the framework for this knowledge repository. A…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Concept Mapping, Focus Groups, Information Systems
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Magntorn, Ola; Hellden, Gustav – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
This paper reports on a study of ecology teaching and learning in a Swedish primary school class (age 10-11 yrs). A teaching sequence was designed to help students read nature in a river ecosystem. The teaching sequence had a "bottom up" approach, taking as its starting point a common key organism--the freshwater shrimp. From this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Ecology, Elementary School Students
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Mackinnon, Gregory R.; Keppell, Mike – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2005
Concept mapping (Novak & Gowin, 1984) has been used extensively as a graphic organiser in classroom teaching. This article addresses two particular approaches to using concept mapping that go beyond classroom planning into the realm of "idea-exchange" with concept mapping as mediator. The notion of "negotiative concept mapping" is examined in two…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Computer Software, Teacher Education, Medical Education
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Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Rye, James A.; Rubba, Peter A. – 1996
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of two different types of post-instruction concept interviews: one that did and one that did not embed a concept mapping process as means of eliciting students' post-instruction conceptual understandings about the nature of, source of, and problems caused by chlorofluorocarbons…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Global Warming, Interviews
Jensen, Jacquelyn W.; Winitzky, Nancy – 2002
Researchers use an array of measures to provide lenses and levels of magnification for exploring teacher candidates' thinking. This paper describes five measures in terms of their costs, benefits, and the kinds of data each yields. These measures include a demographic questionnaire, concept mapping, a learning questionnaire, stimulated recall…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Correlation, Higher Education, Interviews
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Lavigne, Nancy C. – Educational Assessment, 2005
This case study examines the validity of 1 measure of representation and employs multiple measures to examine whether they provide mutually informative or independent pieces of information. These measures include (a) concept maps, which measure how individuals represent their content knowledge of a domain as a whole; (b) problem sorts, which…
Descriptors: Statistics, Knowledge Representation, Measurement Techniques, Concept Mapping
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Williamson Shaffer, David – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2004
This article analyzes collaboration in a computer-supported learning environment based on the professional practices of mediation and dispute resolution. In so doing, it explores the nature of collaborative learning in a setting marked by competition as much as cooperation. Interviews with students suggest that the processes of collaborative…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperative Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Za'za', Mona Salem Mahmoud – Online Submission, 2007
Classroom management is an important component of effective teaching. Despite its importance, little is known about how pre-service teachers acquire and develop pedagogical content knowledge about classroom management. This study explored the PCK about classroom management of 22 EFL student teachers enrolled in Dhahran Al-Janoub (K.S.A.) Faculty…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Preservice Teachers
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Nason, Rod; And Others – Research in Science Education, 1996
Reports on a study in which a teacher used the collaborative development of a format-free computer database to facilitate the construction of knowledge by a group of students (n=3) during a science project. Results indicate that knowledge construction is enhanced when children collaboratively develop a format-free database. Contains 27 references.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Elementary Education
SenGupta, Saumitra – 1993
This paper presents a mixed-method evaluation design which utilizes concept mapping along with questionnaire and interviews. Recent developments in mixed-method evaluation have helped identify five purposes which mixed-method evaluation designs tend to serve. These are triangulation, complementarity, development, initiation, and expansion. The…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Educational Planning, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Coppola, Brian P.; And Others – Journal of Chemical Education, 1997
Describes an undergraduate chemistry curriculum that capitalizes on the strengths of mechanistic organic chemistry. Enables students to grasp the conceptual unity that allows professional chemists to understand unfamiliar results according to few well-defined principles. Describes some instructional strategies that evolved from efforts to connect…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Concept Mapping, Educational Strategies, Evaluation
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Prosser, Michael; Trigwell, Keith; Hazel, Elizabeth; Waterhouse, Fiona – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2000
Reports in detail on the results of a study indicating that physics students' prior understandings of key concepts are systematically related to the way they approach their studies, their perceptions of learning context, and the quality of the outcomes of their studies. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Mapping, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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MacKinnon, Gregory R. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2004
The education of science teachers necessarily involves instruction around the use of computer technologies. Acadia University, a laptop institution, offers a unique setting where students are immersed in the critique of pedagogical applications of computers. The current trend to employ constructivist approaches in teaching provides a backdrop for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Science Teachers, Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning)
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Cools, Carine A. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
This qualitative study utilises the relational dialectics of Baxter and Montgomery (1996) to examine the relationship communication of six heterosexual intercultural couples living in Finland. In this study, I attempt to answer the following questions: what cultural issues are relevant in the couples' relationship? What intercultural relational…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Interpersonal Relationship
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