without concern for relationships among concepts. In contrast, meaningful learning results from linking new information to relevant, preexisting concepts or propositions in the cognitive structure of an individual. Ausubel believes that the most important factor for learning is what the learners already know. Concept maps are designed to tap into a person’s cognitive structure, and to externalize concepts and propositions. What are Concepts? We can define the concepts in concept maps to be
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Grand Canyon University: EDA 575 September 25, 2013 School Environment Analysis Essay Environmental /contextual factors refer to the characteristics of the learning environment that influences the effectiveness of instruction. They can be distributed into community factors, school and classroom environments and individual student characteristics (Harris, 2013). Such factors can have an effect in the teaching and learning process. After researching it is evident that these factors affect
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usage of the three tenants of information or otherwise known as the C.I.A. triad (Kim & Solomon, 2011). The three most important parts that makes up this triad are: “Confidentiality”, “Integrity”, and “Availability”. The expanded version of the C.I.A. triad actually contains seven critical characteristics that further emphasize the important role of keeping sensitive information secure. The following paragraphs will explain the nature and detail of each of these seven characteristics. The first
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TEACHERS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. INTRODUCTION The U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA, 1995) has re-ported that helping teachers “effectively incorporate technology into the teaching and learning process is one of the most important steps the nation can take to make the most of past and continuing investments in educational technology” (p. 8). Most researchers agree that the successful
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BACKGROUND 1.0 Introduction This chapter provides a brief background of the Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) and the genesis of teachers’ education on the effectiveness of grievance handling procedure in ZNUT. It begins by looking at the history of the Zambia National Union of Teachers and later it discusses the beginnings of teachers’ education of grievance handling procedure in the teacher union. Other items covered are the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study and the significance
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project comes from the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. A grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts for MDRC’s research methodology initiatives was an important source of funding for the First Things First Classroom Observation Study. Dissemination of MDRC publications is supported by the following funders that help finance MDRC’s public policy outreach and expanding efforts to communicate the results
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Characteristics of a Successful Student Many students in high school do not know what it takes to be successful in the school environment. They understand good and bad grades in a general way, and they sense that they should attend classes, but that is where their knowledge begins and ends. Most teachers know what a good student is - and is not. For one thing, a good student is not necessarily the most intelligent individual in the class. The following is a list of some characteristics of good
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plans to approach the organization. Collins stated that breakthrough results come about by series of good decisions, diligently executed and accumulated one on top of another of course, the good to great companies did not have a perfect record of accomplishment. Overall, they made many more decisions than bad ones, and they made many more good decisions than the comparison companies. Even more important, on the big choices such as Kroger's decision to throw all its resources into the task of converting
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Distance Learning Partnership Integrated Learning http://www.integratelearning.org Special funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Star Schools. Instructions based on the five-concept template created by Leecy Wise for Star School teachers, Cortez, CO, 2001-2002 Topic: Make Your Own Project-Based Lesson Plan Develop an educational project that includes a specific outcome while teaching academic skills. Identify Grade level or Group Here An integrated lesson plan covering # sessions
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978-9966-793-32-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS iii LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES vii SYMBOLS USED IN THE TEXT x PREFACE xi 1: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH – CONCEPTUALIZATION 1 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 Defining Educational Research 1 1.2 Characteristics of Educational Research 4 1.3 Purpose of Educational Research 5 1.4 Types of Research 9 1.4.1 Basic Research 9 1.4.2 Applied Research 10 1.4.3 Action Research 11 1.4.4 Research and Development (R&D) 15 1.4.5 Operations Research 15 2: THE RESEARCH
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