How can teachers foster learning environments that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in students? What types of methods, instructions, interactions, communications, and climate do these teachers need so they may promote creative thinking in students? Moreover,…
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This study investigated how students use knowledge and strategies from their out-of-school environments to construct knowledge and solve problems during scientific experimentation. In addition this study aimed to develop a methodology for understanding students' reasoning proces…
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a multicomponent diagnostic test, the Arithmetic Word Problem Solving Ability (AWPSA) Test. The AWPSA test is to be used by sixth-grade teachers in Malaysia to identify students needing remediation in solving arithmetic word …
Innovation initiatives across the globe are currently transforming the spaces, practices and subjects of urban governance. An ever-increasing number has started to mobilise design thinking in the promise of empowering citizens to participate in city making. Design thinking origi…
Mobile handset technology has improved greatly in recent decades. Improvements in hardware and software conduce the importance of the handset as a computer. Whilst the mobile phone industry and researchers emphasise understanding users from sociological aspects, such as services…
Water management is a significant challenge in The Republic of Cyprus. The country is subject to a number of water problems based on scarcity and quality, with these stemming from limited precipitation inputs, drought, the overuse of groundwater, as well as the spatial disparity…
Children, 12 to 24 months of age, were presented with three tasks: two detour problems and a spatial task. The aim of the study was to assess the performance on each task and to consider the relationship between performance on the two detour problems and the relationship between…
A significant amount of research in the field of small business management has correlated small firm performance with the sophistication of overall management skills (see, for example, Gasse, 1997; Gadenne, 1998; Zinger, leBrasseur and Zannibi, 2001; Balderson, 2003) and more pa…
Bipolar disorder is characterised by intense fluctuations in mood, including the experience of severe episodes of depression, mania and hypomania. The experience of bipolar disorder can also be associated with biases in various cognitive processes, including rumination in respon…
Previous research has indicated that depression and thinking style (rumination versus distraction) interact to influence cognitive processing. Depressed ruminators produce more categoric autobiographical memories (AM) (i.e., a summary of repeated memories), and also demonstrate …
The Interactive Problem Solving (IPS) method is a conflict management method that focuses on the underlying motivations, needs, values, and fears of the parties that are related to their different identities. The goals of the Interactive Problem Solving (IPS) method are to reduc…
This research investigates the position of creativity within graphic design education in general, and within the Omani educational context specifically. It situates itself among three realms: education, design, and creativity, investigating the relationships, effectiveness, and …
The study was carried out to examine the effects of guided-discovery and problem-solving teaching methods on students’ academic performance in Financial Accounting in Colleges of Education, North Central, Nigeria. The study had four specific purposes. In line with the specific p…
The history of education in the United States has been a contentious one. This holds true for science education in Georgia. Throughout history, there has been much debate on what should be taught and how it should be taught. There have been many influences on education including…
The purpose of this grant proposal project was to seek funding for a program intended to recruit a greater number of resource families who identify as Latinx and African American. A review of the literature provided information about the causes and impacts of placement instabili…
Research examining students’ historical reasoning has heavily relied on evidence in the form of students’ written work to make claims about students’ ability to reason historically and have argued that the document-based history essay holds the most promise for assessing student…
This study examined the conceptual learning of assistive technology by occupational therapy graduate students in relation to the profession, technology and design, in accordance with the constructionist theory. The work explored graduate students’ learning when they collaborativ…