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... Well-designed games must encourage generative processing (Mayer & Johnson, 2010) to ensure that players make connections between gameplay and formal learning concepts. Unfortunately, few games provide direct supports ... See full document

... Regarding the second research question involving the dynamic environment, data analysis provides that the dynamic sketch provided students with physical tools with which to study the concept of standard deviation and its ... See full document

... each separate group (elementary, middle school, and high school) and calculated the differences between average scores and ranked scores. We then conducted the non-parametric Levene’s test of these difference scores to ... See full document

... While initially it appeared as though she believed the children could learn the concepts directly by playing, when I asked how her children make connection between the[r] ... See full document

... Is this aim concerning appreciation feasible for school? Even big ideas like infinity can be appreciated by schoolchildren. Many an interested 9 year old will happily discuss the infinite size of space, or the ... See full document

... Teacher education “should provide practitioners with the tools and resources they need to recognize, analyze, and address the contradictions, and in so doing, open-up the possibility that conditions in schools can be ... See full document

... This study was done in a period when there are attempts to develop a framework for the sustainable development and sustainable education in order to emphasize the universal significance of biodiversity, sustainable ... See full document

... The global acceptance of information and communication technologies in education is not without barriers and one major barrier on the part of teacher educator implementation effort is preservice teachers’ perception of ... See full document

... According to the findings of the study, the category with the highest metaphor frequency after the category of “IWB as an instructive and guiding device” was the category of “IWB as a source of information” (f=28). ... See full document

... Effective teaching does not solely depend on lecturers’ content knowledge, but also on their pedagogical skills. With student population becoming more and more diverse, the need for lecturers to pay attention to ... See full document

... to 3-dimensional world and vice ...describe 3-dimensional figures in a drawing which has a 2-dimensional figure Grownups, too, find this difficult (Barkai & Patkin, ...a 3-dimentional figure ... See full document

... In this research, qualitative research methods were used to collect and analyze the data and children’s attitudes were grouped toward environmental issues. Results of the study showed that children have mostly ... See full document

... In order to further contribute to the research literature on the contributions of peer interactions to student learning while engaged in a digital learning environment, thi[r] ... See full document

... larger number of possible force meanings for those ...the number of students displaying multiple best- match meanings in one format or the ...total number of possible meanings that students were ... See full document

... During the fall semester, they taught the units, and then shared their experiences and problems with each other via e-mail exchanges. During the fall short course, the eight teachers developed nine-week long STS module ... See full document

... the number of publications published in series had decreased from past to present and they were published as independent ...the number of the publications in “Moving into the twenty-first century” series ... See full document

... Characteristics of specialized STEM schools vary depending on the context and location of schools. However, most of these schools accept students after a sophomore year of high school experience. Admission into ... See full document

... the number of credits and grades obtained is needed to add to the literature (Jackson & Laanan, ...the number and the diversity of engineering graduates (Starobin, Laanan, & Burger, 2010; Laanan ... See full document

... the volume of rectangular prisms and triangular prisms together and that “I find that with grade 6’s that if I say length times width times height for rectangular prisms then they’re applying that to triangular ... See full document

... Scaffolding has been a useful metaphor for thinking about classroom instruction and indeed in teachers’ development programs since its introduction by Lev Vygotsky (1978). This paper was designed to investigate the ... See full document