Browsing Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education by Title
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Examining early algebraic thinking: insights from empirical data
(2018)The aim of this study is to better understand the notion of early algebraic thinking by describing differences in grade 4–7 students’ thinking about basic algebraic concepts. To achieve this goal, one test that involved ...
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Examining Learning Through Modeling in K-6 Science Education
(2015)Despite the abundance of research in Modeling-based Learning (MbL) in science education, to date there is only limited research on MbL practices among K-6 novice modelers. More specifically, there is no information on how ...
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Examining number sense and algebraic reasoning through cognitive styles
(2013)Recently, a new cognitive style approach was introduced, which refers to two types of visualizers. This approach is based on neuropsychological evidence and neuroimaging results, which suggest the existence of two distinct ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Examining the combination of Physical and virtual experiments In an inquiry science classroom
(University of Cyprus, 2010)Physical investigations and computer simulations have often been used independently in inquiry science classrooms. This study investigates the benefits of combining physical and virtual experiments when learning about ...
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Doctoral Thesis
Examining the effects of context-free and context-situated instructional strategies on learners' critical thinking. (contextualized instruction)
(ProQuest Information & Learning, 1999)An experimental study was carried out to (1) examine the effects of three instructional strategies on critical thinking, and (2) to determine whether there was a relationship between critical thinking and general cognitive ...
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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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Book Chapter
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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 ...