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Effects of concretely illustrated instruction versus abstractly illustrated instruction on acquisition of abstract concepts.
(2000)
The participants in this study are junior and senior students enrolled in an undergraduate introductory instructional development course at a southwestern university. Students in the class were equally divided by visual ...
The role of goals, beliefs, and cognitive engagement in the prediction of preservice teachers' knowledge integration.
(1999)
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of achievement goals (learning goal, performance goal, and future goal), epistemological beliefs (authority, certain knowledge, innate ability, simple knowledge, and quick ...
Assessing conceptual ecologies.
(1998)
The participants of this study developed diagrams and repertory grid matrices that assessed their perceptions of the relationships between concepts related to "research". The diagrams and matrices suggested a level of ...
The effects of conceptual model provision and cognitive style on problem-solving performance of learners engaged in an exploratory learning environment.
(2001)
Sixty-one undergraduate students participated in the study. The Group Embedded Figures Tests was used to classify subjects as field dependent or field independent learners. The design of the study was a pretest/posttest ...