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Peer reviewedDavidowitz, Bette; Rollnick, Marissa – Research in Science Education, 2003
Explores the Competency Tripod model and flow diagrams as two sources for enabling students' metacognition in a second year undergraduate chemistry laboratory. Results indicate that all four students engaged in metacognitive practices, all believed that flow diagrams are extremely useful, and all understood the Competency Tripod model, but only…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chemistry, Higher Education, Learning
Rattray-Wood, Laurie, Ed.; Ferguson, Peter, Ed. – Australian Science Education Research Association: Research in Science Education, 1982
This publication contains a selection of science education research papers, beginning with an overview of trends in science education cognitive developmental research and theory in the United Kingdom. Papers that follow focus on developments in studies of thinking and reasoning, including work on concept mapping and conceptual change. Closely…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation
Tisher, Richard P., Ed. – Australian Science Education Research Association: Research in Science Education, 1983
This publication contains a review of trends in research over the past decade followed by 24 studies focusing on cognitive structure, instructional strategies, curricular issues, and attitudes. Among the specific areas investigated are: concept maps as reflectors of conceptual understanding; equations, translations, and number skills in learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedZeitoun, Hassan Hussein – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1984
Presents a theoretical framework for and a detaled description of a model for teaching scientific analogies. The framework focuses on the definition of an analogy, analogical learning, variables related to analogical learning, evaluating outcomes of analogical limiting, and limitations of using analogies in teaching. (JN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Science, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
