Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences
2015 Volume 43, Number 6
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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Moving from Recitation to Open-Format Literature Discussion in Chinese Classrooms
Yahua Cheng, Jie Zhang, Hong Li, Richard Anderson, Fengjiao Ding, Kim Nguyen-Jahiel, Hua Shu & Xinchun Wu
A study involving 106 fourth graders and two teachers from a school in Beijing investigated the impact of a peer-led, open-format discussion approach, called collaborative reasoning (CR), on... More
pp. 643-664
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The Impact of Classroom Context upon 1st and 2nd Grade Students' Critical Criteria for Science Representations
Joshua A. Danish & Asmalina Saleh
We report on a design based research study exploring how the organization of classroom activity impacts early elementary students' critical criteria for evaluating representations in science class.... More
pp. 665-682
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Emerging Conceptions of ICT-Enhanced Teaching: Australian TAFE Context
Shahadat Hossain Khan
This article presents the results of a study, undertaken from a phenomenographic perspective, which examines technical and further education (TAFE) teachers' conceptions of ICT-enhanced teaching. A... More
pp. 683-708
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Give Me a Hand: Differential Effects of Gesture Type in Guiding Young Children's Problem-Solving
Claire Vallotton, Maria Fusaro, Julia Hayden, Kalli Decker & Elizabeth Gutowski
Adults' gestures support children's learning in problem-solving tasks, but gestures may be differentially useful to children of different ages, and different features of gestures may make them more... More
pp. 709-735
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Sourcing While Reading Divergent Expert Accounts: Pathways from Views of Knowing to Written Argumentation
Sarit Barzilai, Eynav Tzadok & Yoram Eshet-Alkalai
Sourcing is vital for knowledge construction from online information sources, yet learners may find it difficult to engage in effective sourcing. Sourcing can be particularly challenging when lay... More
pp. 737-766