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Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences

2015 Volume 43, Number 6

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Number of articles: 5

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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

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