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The recall of verbal material accompanying semantically well-integrated and semantically poorly-integrated sentences
(Elsevier, 1969-12)
This study tested the hypothesis that the recall of verbal material (critical material) accompanying semantically well-integrated (SWI) sentences will be superior to the recall of verbal material accompanying semantically ...
Contextual constraints on noun distributions to some English verbs by children and adults
(Elsevier, 1972-02)
The cloze procedure was used to obtain noun distributions for subjects and objects of 36 common English transitive verbs in active and passive sentence frames. For third and sixth grade and college students, the subject ...
Analysis of inquiry materials to explain complexity of chemical reasoning in physical chemistry students’ argumentation
(Springer, Science and Technology Education LibraryWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-12)
One aim of inquiry activities in science education is to promote students’ participation in the practices used to build scientific knowledge by providing opportunities to engage in scientific discourse. However, many factors ...
How and when does complex reasoning occur? Empirically driven development of a learning progression focused on complex reasoning about biodiversity
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-08)
In order to compete in a global economy, students are going to need resources and curricula focusing on critical thinking and reasoning in science. Despite awareness for the need for complex reasoning, American students ...
Negative judgments in and about semantic memory
(Elsevier, 1974-12)
This research is concerned with determining how subjects falsify statements like A collie is a cat. A multiple regression analysis was performed which used 22 variables to try to predict the negative judgment times. The ...
QUERIES 'N THEORIES: An instructional game on the DOT, DOT, DOT, ... approach to scientific method
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1974-10)
QUERIES 'N THEORIES provides a parallel to the strong inference approach to scientific method — designing experiments, observing data, and theorizing. The reiterated use of the DOT approach (Design, Observe, Theorize) in ...
On recognizing and formulating mathematical problems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1976-04)
When mathematics is used to help people cope with real-life situations, a three-stage intellectual process is involved. First, a person becomes aware of a problem-situation which stimulates him to generate a problem-statement, ...
Using Technology in Reggio-Inspired Long-Term Projects
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
The effect of sentence context on the stability of phonemic and semantic memory dimensions
(Elsevier, 1973-04)
Phonemic and semantic memory dimensions of words presented in sentence or non-sentence context are examined with an eye toward evaluating the relationship between multistage models of memory and sentence word encoding. The ...