Browsing Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education by Title
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Conference Object Open Access
The architecture and evaluation of a Collaborative learning environment
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)ModellingSpace is an open learning environment, particularly suitable for science education, which permits building of models by collaborating partners in various educational settings. This paper describes the main features ...
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The architecture, dynamics, and development of mental processing: Greek, Chinese, or Universal?
(2005)This study compared Greeks with Chinese, from 8 to 14 years of age, on measures of processing efficiency, working memory, and reasoning. All processes were addressed through three domains of relations: verbal/propositional, ...
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Are registers of representations and problem solving processes on functions compartmentalized in students' thinking?
(2006)The purpose of the present study is twofold: first, to review and summarize previous research on the compartmentalization of different registers of representations and problem solving approaches related to the concept of ...
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Are teachers consistently effective across subject matters? Revisiting the issue of differential teacher effectiveness
(2019)Although consistency in teacher effectiveness has attracted scholarly interest since the 1960s, revived interest in differential teacher effectiveness is recently witnessed, with empirical studies more systematically testing ...
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Arguing for computer science in the school curriculum
(2016)Computer science has been a discipline for some years, and its position in the school curriculum has been contested differently in several countries. This paper looks at its role in three countries to illustrate these ...
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Aristotelian gnoseology and work-based learning
(2013)This chapter aims to give an account of Aristotle's theory of knowledge and to associate the version of the theory-practice relation that this account offers with work-based learning. To this end, a critical discussion of ...
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Aristotle, the action researcher
(2010)This article discusses Olav Eikeland's The Ways of Aristotle, a book that takes stock of a whole range of Aristotelian themes and communicates various complex Aristotelian ideas to impressive effect. What is distinctive ...
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Arrows not yet fired: Cultivating cosmopolitanism through education
(2002)In this article I discuss Martha Nussbaum’s cosmopolitan educational ideal and its theoretical underpinnings. I argue that, in spite of its merits, it overlooks the historical-relational dimension of cross-cultural encounters ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Art and the body in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy
(2012-07)
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Artistic learning in relation to young children's chorotopos: An in-depth approach to early childhood visual culture education
(2009)The paper reports on a study of young children and the nature of their art learning based on the in-depth approach and in the context of chorotopos (space-place, area, landscape, region, village or town). The sample includes ...
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Artists in Cypriot Primary Schools: The Pupils’ Perspective.
(2004)Musicians and visual artists are appointed to work as specialist teachers in Cypriot primary schools because of their artistic expertise. However, little information is available concerning these artists and their work in ...
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Assessing individual lessons using a generic teacher observation instrument: how useful is the International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback (ISTOF)?
(2018)Teacher effectiveness, which impacts student attainment even when controlling for student characteristics, is of key importance as a factor in educational effectiveness and improvement. Improving the quality of teaching ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Assessing online instruction: an evolutionary approach
(University of Cyprus, 2007)In evolutionary biology, the contribution of those traits evolved by the natural selection process determines the fitness of an organism, that is, the degree to which it is successful in surviving and reproducing in its ...
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Assessing Student Problem-Solving Skills
(Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003)This study examines the construct validity of the Mathematical Patterns Test using data from 848 Cypriot primary school students. Descriptive analyses across 5 age groups suggested a developmental structure of individual ...
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Assessing teacher effectiveness: developing a differentiated model
(RoutledgeFalmer, 2004)
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Assessing the Cross-cultural Applicability of Number Lines in Conducting Arithmetic Operations Using Structural Equation Modelling: A Comparative Study Between Cypriot, Italian and Greek Primary Pupils
(2004)This study provides construct related evidence of the Arithmetical Operations Test (AOT) using data from 432 year 2 pupils from Cyprus, Greece and Italy. Deliberately, items involving the use of numberline diagrams have ...
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Book Chapter
Assessment as a technology of power: shaping of literacy and literate identities in a public elementary classroom
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016)
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Assessment design and quality of inferences in PISA: limitations and recommendations for improvement
(2019)
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Assessment of the modeling competence: A systematic review and synthesis of empirical research
(2014)We provide an analysis of the existing literature on the assessment of modeling as a scientific competence focusing on empirical research findings. Out of 802 searched citations, a total of 23 publications from science ...