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Examining the effects of field dependence-independence on learners' problem-solving performance and interaction with a computer modeling tool: Implications for the design of joint cognitive systems
(2013)An investigation was carried out to examine the effects of cognitive style on learners' performance and interaction during complex problem solving with a computer modeling tool. One hundred and nineteen undergraduates ...
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Examining the effects of learning in dyads with computer-based multimedia on third-grade students' performance in history
(2016)The research examined the impact of multimedia within the context of collaborative dyadic learning on students' performance in a third-grade history lesson, taking into consideration students' individual collaborative ...
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Examining the effects of text-only and text-and-visual instructional materials on the achievement of field-dependent and field-independent learners during problem-solving with modeling software
(2004)Sixty-five undergraduates were classified into field-dependent, field-mixed, and field-independent learners, and were randomly assigned to two groups: text-only and text-and-visual. Participants in the text-only group ...
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Examining the Relationship of Job Satisfaction to Teacher and Organisational Variables: Evidence from Cyprus
(Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management (CCEAM), 2008)The study aims to investigate the relationship of organisational and teacher variables to job satisfaction among teachers in Cyprus. Data were collected through a questionnaire used in the 'Teacher 2000 Project', which ...
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Examining the task and knowledge demands needed to teach with representations
(2014)Representations are often used in instruction to highlight key mathematical ideas and support student learning. Despite their centrality in scaffolding teaching and learning, most of our understanding about the tasks ...
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Examining whether touch sensory feedback is necessary for science learning through experimentation: A literature review of two different lines of research across K-16
(2015)The focus of this paper is on the contribution that active touch sensory feedback offered through physical or virtual (with haptic feedback) manipulatives, makes to students' learning through science experimentation. Both ...
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‘The exchange of ideas was mutual, I have to say’: negotiating researcher and teacher ‘roles’ in an early years educators’ professional development programme on inquiry-based mathematics and science learning
(2015)This paper explores the experiences of 14 early years educators who participated in a continuing professional development (CPD) programme coordinated by two of the paper’s authors. The programme was part of a three-year ...
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The experience of disability activism through the development of the disability movement: how do disabled activists find their way in politics?
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009)This paper reflects critically upon part of the findings of research about key activists' experience of disability politics in Cyprus from 1966 to 2004. Disabled activists' experience of politics is conceptualized through ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Experience with teaching of commercial applications in logistics
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The syllabus of the Transport Engineering and Logistics Diploma Course at the University of Applied Sciences at Bremerhaven (Hochschule Bremerhaven), Germany, contains a subject called Data Processing Systems in the Transport ...
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Explaining stability and changes in school effectiveness by looking at changes in the functioning of school factors
(2010)This paper investigates the extent to which changes in the effectiveness status of schools can be related to changes in the functioning of school factors included in the dynamic model of educational effectiveness. The ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Exploiting a unified infrastructure of a fusion Networking environment for the support of Novel tele-learning applications
(University of Cyprus, 2007)This paper presents the capabilities of the new digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) in supporting tele-learning applications, where the lecturer and the students are virtually present in the same classroom from their ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Exploiting internet & multimedia technologies to advance educational process
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Internet technologies and multimedia applications are becoming the new trend in educational process. The number of schools, universities and other educational institutions that intend to adopt computer-based learning is ...
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Conference Object Open Access
The exploration of experimental data with the aid of numerical models
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Computer-based methods of capturing data in laboratory experiments (data-logging) invite a range of approaches to exploring data. The rich variety of analysis and calculation tools provided in software helps to extend the ...
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An Exploratory Investigation of 12-Year-Old Students' Ability to Appreciate Certain Aspects of the Nature of Science through a Specially Designed Approach in the Context of Energy
(2014)We describe the implementation of a specially designed teaching innovation, embedded in the context of energy, for the promotion of specific aspects of the nature of science (NOS). We present empirical results from the ...
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An exploratory study about the role of epistemological beliefs and dispositions on learners' thinking about an ill-defined issue in solo and duo problem-solving contexts
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2008)This chapter examines the relationship between epistemological beliefs and dispositions and their role on ill-defined problem solving in solo and duo contexts. The results showed that different aspects of epistemological ...
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Exploring a high achiever's and a low achiever's strategies and images in early number work
(2001)Curriculum development within mathematics is often grounded in the belief that all individuals pass through the same sequence of learning, albeit at different paces. There seems to be a general assumption that there is ...
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Exploring causal relationships in experimental and non-experimental designs. A brief overview.
(University of Nicosia, 2012)
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Exploring different aspects of the understanding of function: Toward a four-facet model
(2008)Based on a synthesis of the relevant literature, this study explored students’ display of behavior in four aspects of the understanding of function: effectiveness in solving a word problem, concept definition, examples of ...