Browsing Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education by Author "Valanides, Nicos"
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Action Research, the Reflective Teacher and Science Education.
Papastephanou, Marianna; Valanides, Nicos; Angeli, Charoula (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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Book Chapter
Analysis of interview data using the constant comparative analysis method
Valanides, Nicos (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2010)
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Antecedent variables for sociomoral reasoning development: Evidence from two cultural settings
Markoulis, D.; Valanides, Nicos (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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Call for Papers
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (Sage Publications Inc, 2011)A call for papers on educational computing research is presented.
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Communication in a web-based conferencing system: The quality of computer-mediated interactions
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos; Bonk, Curtis Jay (2003)Time constraints and teaching in crowded classrooms restrict in-depth dialogical interaction in teaching and learning. Electronic conferencing systems, however, have the potential to foster online discussions beyond class ...
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Developing a tool to evaluate differences in beliefs about science teaching and learning among freshman science student teachers from different science teaching domains: A case study
Markic, S.; Eilks, I.; Valanides, Nicos (2008)This paper presents a pilot case study on developing a qualitative tool to evaluate science student teachers' beliefs concerning science teaching and learning. The study is based on student teachers' drawings of themselves ...
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Developing young children's computational thinking with educational robotics: An interaction effect between gender and scaffolding strategy
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2020)The study examined the effects of learning with the Bee-Bot on young boys' and girls' computational thinking within the context of two scaffolding techniques. The study reports statistically significant learning gains ...
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Conference Object
A distributed cognition approach to overcome alternative conceptions about light and color
Valanides, Nicos; Angeli, Charoula (2008)The purpose of the study was to report on the effects of learning with ODRES" (Observe, Discuss, and Reason with Evidence in Science), a computer tool that was used with elementary school children. Succinctly, dyads of ...
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Distributed cognition in a sixth-grade classroom: An attempt to overcome alternative conceptions about light and color
Valanides, Nicos; Angeli, Charoula (2008)In this study, we discuss the scaffolded design of ODRES (Observe, Discuss, and Reason with Evidence in Science), a computer tool that was designed to be used with elementary school children in science, and report on the ...
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Dynamic, open inquiry in biology learning
Zion, M.; Slezak, M.; Shapira, D.; Link, E.; Bashan, N.; Brumer, M.; Orian, T.; Nussinowitz, R.; Court, D.; Agrest, B.; Mendelovici, R.; Valanides, Nicos (2004)In the new biology-learning curriculum for Israeli high schools, known as Biomind, students experience "open-inquiry." This paper describes a qualitative action research project that was performed in order to investigate ...
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The effect of electronic scaffolding for technology integration on perceived task effort and confidence of primary student teachers
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2004)Forty-one primary student teachers were divided into two groups and were instructed how to integrate certain Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in learning activities. Only one group was guided to use ...
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Conference Object
The effects of field dependence-independence and instructional design on learners' performance in a complex system with a computer modeling tool
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2009)
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Effects of instruction on changes in epistemological beliefs
Valanides, Nicos; Angeli, Charoula (2005)In this study, we investigated the effects of teaching critical-thinking principles on university students’ epistemological beliefs, whether these effects had any relation to the teaching approaches, and whether there was ...
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Epistemological and methodological issues for the conceptualization and development of ICT-TPCK
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2008)
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Epistemological and methodological issues for the conceptualization, development, and assessment of ICT-TPCK: Advances in technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK)
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2009)In this paper, several issues regarding the epistemology of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) are first raised for the purpose of clarifying the construct. Specifically, the transformative and integrative ...
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Epistemological beliefs and ill-defined problem-solving in solo and duo contexts
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2010)
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Epistemological beliefs and Ill-structured Problem-solving in Solo and paired contexts
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2012)A mixed-method exploratory approach was employed to examine the relationship between epistemological beliefs and quality of thinking when participants first thought about an ill-structured problem alone, and then with ...
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Examining the effects of electronic mentoring prompts on learners' scientific reasoning skills in a text-based online conference for science education
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (2006)
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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
Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos (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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Book Chapter
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
Valanides, Nicos; Angeli, Charoula (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 ...