Browsing Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education by Type "Article"
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Ability to translate from one representation of the concept of function to another and mathematical problem solving
(2004)Representations are used extensively in mathematics and translation ability is highly correlated with success in mathematics education. The authors investigate the translation ability of university students as far as the ...
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Action Research to Develop and Validate a Scheme of Work to Promote Creativity and Designerly Thinking Through Play
(Design & Technology Association, 2014)The paper reports on a study of the development and validation of a Design and Technology Scheme of Work (SoW) that is facilitated by Engino assembly toys. Three initial case studies are described; one to assess the ...
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Action Research, the Reflective Teacher and Science Education.
(2005)The present review aspires to familiarize readers with the main stakes of action research, and single out its pertinence to the vision of critical and effective education. Thus, the theoretical and conceptual arsenal of ...
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The active involvement of teachers in action research for differentiation of the teaching-learning process: Understanding the needs of students and weaknesses of the curriculum
(2015)The current participatory action research examines teachers’ involvement in differentiated teaching and learning strategies in mixed ability classrooms describing their steps from the point of defining the problem to the ...
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Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data
(2018)Omitted prior achievement bias is pervasive in international assessment studies and precludes causal inference. For example, reported negative associations between student-oriented teaching strategies and student performance ...
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Adolescents' Beliefs about the Wolf: Investigating the Potential of Human-Wolf Coexistence in the European South
(2012)Previous research revealed a rural–urban divide in the acceptance of the wolf. We investigated adolescents’ beliefs about the wolf in rural and urban areas of Greece and Italy. By using a multiple-choice questionnaire, we ...
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Ambiguity in the way of looking at geometrical figures
(2014)This paper discusses the different ways the students look at geometrical figures in solving geometrical tasks and the different types of reasoning that occur in relation to the different types of figural apprehension, ...
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An analysis of the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire using the Rasch measurement model
(2006)Background. Bullying is a problem in schools in many countries. There would be a benefit in the availability of a psychometrically sound instrument for its measurement, for use by teachers and researchers. The Olweus ...
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Antecedent variables for sociomoral reasoning development: Evidence from two cultural settings
(1997)This study examined the developmental pattern of sociomoral reasoning in two different cultural settings, focusing on factors assumed to influence the course of growth in this particular domain. The specific hypotheses ...
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Approaches employed by sixth-graders to compare rival solutions in socio-scientific decision-making tasks
(2010)The present study explores the approaches employed by sixth-grade students to compare rival solutions in socio-scientific decision-making situations. Data were collected using three specially developed open-ended tasks. ...
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Archbishop Anastasios: mission in Christ's way
(2012)A worthy servant of the Orthodox Church, a prominent academic teacher and an outstanding missionary, Archbishop Anastasios of Albania contributes to the global dialogue for understanding and solidarity among people and ...
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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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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 ...