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Enhancing Geometric Skills with Digital Technology: The Case of Dynamic Geometry
The emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) focuses on smart technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Education systems must prepare...
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The quality of group interactions in medical problem–based learning in China: the roles of intercultural sensitivity and group ethnic composition
BackgroundChinese universities are increasingly recruiting foreign students, and problem-based learning (PBL) is an effective approach to integrating...
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Measuring Scientific Reasoning Competencies
In this chapter, we investigate multiple aspects of validity of test score interpretations from a scientific reasoning competence test, as well as...
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Thinking in Terms of Change over Time: Opportunities and Challenges of Using System Dynamics Models
Understanding the world around us is a growing necessity for the whole public, as citizens are required to make informed decisions in their everyday...
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Choose Your Evidence
Schooling traditionally affords students more experience in learning and practicing procedures than in identifying what a situation calls for. When...
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Supporting Secondary Students’ Understanding of Earth’s Climate System and Global Climate Change Using EzGCM: A Cross-Sectional Study
Global climate change (GCC) is one of the greatest challenges of our age and a highly significant socio-scientific issue (SSI). Develo** secondary...
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Concept map as a tool to assess and enhance students' system thinking skills
Concept map (CM) is introduced as a useful tool for studying students’ system thinking (ST). However, it is more known to represent students’...
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Uncertainty, Risk, and Decision-Making:
The ability to handle decision problems in conditions of uncertainty and risk is an important skill for contemporary societies and ought to be an...
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Exploring the Differences Between Experts and Novices on Inquiry-Based Learning Cases
Theorists suggest that problem-solving is an important element to engender higher order learning outcomes. According to case-based reasoning (CBR)...
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Two assessors for the ordinary examination ought to result in stricter requirements for justifying appeals
All students at Norwegian universities and colleges have the right to complain about ordinary grading decisions. When an appeal is made, two new...
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Evaluating Medical Students’ Clinical Reasoning in Psychiatry Using Clinical and Basic Science Concepts Presented in Session-level Integration Sessions
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to evaluate improvement in clinical reasoning by preclinical medical students following participation in a...
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Analyzing student thinking reflected in self-constructed cognitive maps and its influence on inquiry task performance
Higher-order thinking is crucial to inquiry learning. It is important to investigate how students think in inquiry contexts. Given the tacit nature...
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Analysis of Students’ Diagrams Explaining Scientific Phenomena
While there has been much interest in the power of student-generated multiple representations to promote student reasoning and conceptual...
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Young children, wordless picturebooks, and inferencing
During a study in a Kindergarten classroom, wordless and almost wordless picturebooks were presented as aesthetic objects that are read for pleasure,...
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Supporting Dynamic Instructional Design Decisions Within a Bounded Rationality
Various theories and models discuss how instructional designers can develop systems that allow learners to engage in problem-solving. To date, many...
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Enhancing Geometric Skills with Digital Technology: The Case of Dynamic Geometry
The emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) focuses on smart technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Education systems must prepare...
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Leveraging College Students’ Scientific Evidence-Based Reasoning Performance with Eye-Tracking-Supported Metacognition
This study specifically focuses on examining whether the eye-tracking-supported metacognition would benefit science majors’ and nonscience majors’...
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Features of Modeling-Based Abductive Reasoning as a Disciplinary Practice of Inquiry in Earth Science
The purpose of this study was to investigate the features of modeling-based abductive reasoning as a disciplinary practice of inquiry in the domain...
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Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy
Studies consistently show the social impact of spreading epistemologically unfounded beliefs (or ‘conspiracy beliefs’), including negative effects on...
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Metacognition in covariation reasoning relevant to performance achievement mediated by experiential values in a simulation game
The Chinese proverb “heal a headache by curing the head and heal foot pain by curing the feet” alludes to ineffective work resulting from a lack of...
