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Towards a Critical Re-Appraisal of Ecology Education: Scheduling an Educational Intervention to Revisit the 'Balance of Nature' Metaphor
(2011)The 'Balance of Nature' metaphor is a pervasive idea in ecology. However, the scientific community acknowledged during the last decades that equilibrium conditions are rare, while disturbance events are not uncommon. We ...
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Towards a meta-modern paradigm of curriculum: Transcendence of a mistaken reliance on theory
(2006)A meta-modern paradigm of curriculum and teachers’ empowerment aims at transcending the difficulties and negative side effects of both modern and postmodern approaches to curriculum reform. Meta-modern approaches focus on ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Towards a model for evaluating stduent learning via e-assessement
(University of Cyprus, 2010)The need for practical tools to assess student learning at the course level is becoming a more pressing goal for all academic institutions. This situation arises because learning assessment tools which monitor both student ...
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Towards the development of generic and differentiated models of educational effectiveness: A study on school and teacher effectiveness in physical education
(2008)This article presents the results of an evaluation study in Physical Education (PE) in which 23 schools, 49 classes and 1142 year 4 Cypriot students participated. This study attempted to identify the extent to which a ...
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Tracing 10th and 11th graders approaches in function tasks
(2010)The aim of the study was to investigate: a) whether the instruction in Grade 10 (students 15–16 years old) impedes the learning concerning functions in Grade 11 (students 16–17 years old), b) the role of the various modes ...
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Tracing the development of preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs in teaching mathematics during fieldwork
(2008)This paper focuses on efficacy beliefs with respect to teaching mathematics; it aims at testing and validating an existing scale for measuring efficacy beliefs in the domain of mathematics, examining the development of ...
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Tracing the development of representational flexibility and problem solving in fraction addition: A longitudinal study
(2013)The study models the development of students' multiple-representation flexibility and the use of problem-solving strategies and representations in fraction addition. A test administered three times, with breaks of 3-4 ...
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Trainee primary teachers' beliefs and practices about physical education during student teaching
(2008)Background: In exploring the complexity of teaching, scholars have suggested that greater attention needs to be paid to the teachers' thoughts and actions and to how these affect quality teaching. Up to today, very few ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Transferring innovation through Collaboration: does partnership Work?
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)If Computer Based Learning in Science is to continue to spread in an effective manner, then it needs to be able to demonstrate that CBLIS enhances and enriches student learning. To do this it firstly needs to be able to ...
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The transformation of existence: Christ's encounter with the samaritan woman according to John 4:4-42
(2013)Christ's encounter with the Samaritan woman, as it is told in John 4:4-42, sums up the purpose of the Christian mission. The encounter is about a human being's positive response to Christ's call for entrance into the new ...
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Transforming a teacher education method course through technology: Effects on preservice teachers' technology competency
(2005)In this study, an instructional design model was employed for restructuring a teacher education course with technology. The model was applied in a science education method course, which was offered in two different but ...
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Transforming violent selves through reflection in critical communicative research
(2011)Currently, teenagers are being socialized into a world of violent realities, not only through social interaction but also through interaction via the media, especially via the Internet. Research conducted using the critical ...
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Trapped in our past: The price we have to pay for our cultural disability inheritance
(2009)The importance of culture in understanding cross-cultural phenomena is now widely acknowledged. This paper seeks to explore the impact of the Greek-Cypriot culture on constructing notions of disability which dominate popular ...
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Traversing new theoretical frames for intercultural education: Gender, intersectionality, performativity
(2013)This paper attempts to renegotiate the conceptual and political borders of intercultural education by importing ways of thinking, concepts, aporias and questions relevant to a gendered study of intercultural interactions ...
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A tribute to the work of Gerald A. Goldin
(Cyprus Mathematical Society, 2010)
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Two negatives don't always make a positive: Exploring how limitations in teacher knowledge and the curriculum contribute to instructional quality
(2012)This paper examines the contribution of mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) and curriculum materials to the implementation of lessons on integer subtraction. In particular, it investigates the instruction of three ...
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Types of cognitive change: A dynamical, connectionist account
(2005)In this chapter we offer a dynamical account of types of conceptual change both at the cognitive and the mathematical level. Our aim is to show that some classes of neural models can implement the types of change that we ...
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Types of reasoning in 3D geometry thinking and their relation with spatial ability
(2010)The aim of this study is to describe and analyse the structure of 3D geometry thinking by identifying different types of reasoning and to examine their relation with spatial ability. To achieve this goal, two tests were ...