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... Our results in a later VMTwG session also show how the VMTwG environment shapes the knowledge that the teachers develop while working to construct a perpendicula[r] ... See full document

... In this context, there are a great number of studies about the effect of WebQuests on pre-service teachers’ motivation, achievement and the practicability of WebQuests. However, there have been limited research ... See full document

... One of the most important parts of science education is to create an understanding of scientific concepts; therefore, the number of studies concerning the students’ comprehension of scientific concepts have ... See full document

... the number line to represent decimals is important for recognizing and ordering decimals, and doing operations with decimals (Thompson & Walker, ...the number line as “an integration of visual and ... See full document

... If we only look at students’ correct and incorrect answers, it appears that these three students did not exhibit change in their fraction learning from pretest to posttest. However, a qualitative analysis provides deeper ... See full document

... third year students at the University to the qualitative study of differential equations, and helped me discover this ...order 2 and wrote a book presenting an elementary vision of the qualitative study of ... See full document

... the number of problems multiplied by one person exploring the problem results in the exact same number of ...same number of solutions regardless of where we start, either with the number of ... See full document

... 4. Designing a vacuum cleaner. The real world problem presented to the students in this activity was designing a vacuum cleaner to clean dust in their room. Students first discussed the use of electrical energy ... See full document

... In this review, only journal articles, master theses, and doctoral dissertations were considered for a better quality of analysis. In addition, studies only written in English were reviewed because the author does not ... See full document

... Within the study, it was found that the students experience many misconceptions in relation to the concepts of heat, temperature and energy. Kulkarni and Tambade (2013) reported the same finding. Yet, there is a decrease ... See full document

... This research relied primarily on students’ self-evaluation data from the LGEF, whereas their project works were assessed using the WSRP. Three agents assessed the latter forms (i.e., students, peers in their groups, and ... See full document

... We support the idea of integrated STEM education in a Turkish context in ways that students spend efforts to solve a real-world problem, which requires content knowledge and skills in s[r] ... See full document

... The discussion followed on how mathematical modeling activities and project-based learning contexts contribute to integrated STEM education by providing two research-based experienc[r] ... See full document

... The emerging need for educating the new generation according to the needs of 21 st century made educators bring an integrated approach, STEM education, in shape. The pioneer of STEM as term was Ramaley by using the term ... See full document

... The aim of this study is to examine middle school students‟ attitude towards mathematics in the context of their mathematic learning preferences using data mining. This study would help teacher educators understand ... See full document

... A critical finding from these data is that the difference in expectations while using the same term in CCSSM and NGSS hold the potential for confusion or misinterpretation. Although not within the scope of this study, ... See full document

... Proficiency with simple operations refers to children’s conceptual understanding of and procedural fluency with arithmetic operations. The early skills of counting and magnitude comparisons help students develop ... See full document

... These pseudoscientific beliefs of the pre-service science teachers are indicator of the naïve views about the difference between observation and inference aspect of NOS. These pre-service science teachers weren’t able to ... See full document

... The preparation of U.S. elementary teachers involves completing a four-year college degree that typically aims to prepare them to teach all subjects (e.g., reading, language arts, mathematics, science, social ... See full document

... The study was carried out at St. John Boscos’ College of Education, one of 38 public colleges of education, located at the Upper East Region of Ghana. Participants comprised two intact classes of 94 first-year ... See full document