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... The EGPS has all the characteristics of the guided inquiry approach but with added written explicit steps of problem solving. We adapted the EPGS approach from Polya’s method as described in “How to solve it” (1957). The ... See full document

... The national focus on Black males and societal laws, policies, and practices in the U.S. echoes concerns regarding their achievements and experiences in mathematics education. The dominant narrative in this field about ... See full document

... for year one and ...for year two. A reliability score was not calculated for year three because the reliability was established in a prior year with the same ... See full document

... Romberg, Fennema, and Carpenter (1993) assert, “functions are one of the most powerful and useful notions in mathematics” (p. 1), a view that reflects the beliefs of the mathematics and mathematics education communities ... See full document

... 41 year old man as he talked about an awe experience in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Canyon provided an experience of the processes of nature (research question ...question 2) emerged from the last ... See full document

... In Germany, the national biology education standards (KMK 2004) specify that learners are expected to be able to form hypotheses, plan experiments and analyze data. These competences are theoretically grounded in the ... See full document

... step number and the number of dots by noting that you multiply the step number by three and add one to get the number of ...the number of dots in the 50th ...the number is, the ... See full document

... The main purpose of this study was to research mathematics teacher candidates’ perceptions about the concept of “mathematics” through the use of metaphors. The research is conducted during 2012-2013 academic year, ... See full document

... limited number of unrelated and conceptually significant new factors or dimensions by bringing together p-numbered interrelated variables (Büyüköztürk, ...the number of latent variables in a scale and the ... See full document

... With the emergence of multimedia learning, recent studies have examined effects of different styles of advance organizers such as printed and onscreen text, oral description, graphics, concept maps, video, animation, and ... See full document

... the number of videos watched or exercises completed, and others offer aggregated summaries by class or by student across a number of ...and number of lessons the student needs to reach an adequate ... See full document

... On the other hand, Niess et al.—the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) Technology and Mathematics Education Committee—(2009) created a set of mathematics teacher TPACK standards that encouraged educators ... See full document

... concepts such as positive and negative ions are presented as results of mathematical operations. As the researchers, we think that these connections should be made clear to students in order them to comprehend that ... See full document

... Science concept test consists of 49 questions in total, 4 questions related to precipitation and water cycle concepts, 12 questions related to heat and temperature concepts[r] ... See full document

... Table 2 showed that the students in the experimental group had consistently higher mean scores on each subscale of the dependent variable except for anxiety subscale but still in favour of the experimental ... See full document

... CRA-SI instruction was demonstrated to be successful in teaching skills such as solving problems with fractions, integers, and algebra concepts at the secondary level for [r] ... See full document

... In the current study, researchers translated Rice (2003) Paranormal Belief Questions in Turkish and applied factor analysis limiting 2 factors as classical paranormal and religious paranormal beliefs. Factor ... See full document

... The teachers were interviewed at their own schools during their regular hour for preparation, with the exception of one teacher who was interviewed after school hours. The interviews were done in Spanish, audio-taped, ... See full document

... a number of factors contributing to reading difficulty, such as organization of materials, syntax, word length, sentence length, word frequency, typeface, and line spacing (Department of Education and Science, ... See full document

... Many instructors find it difficult to implement inquiry-based teaching methods for the first time. As discussed by Hodge (Hodge, 2006), the difficulties they encounter may include a sense of loss of control over the ... See full document