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Assessing conceptual understanding in mathematics
2013 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2013Modern mathematics careers are now requiring conceptual skills such as, critical thinking, modeling, and application of the content. This change in skillset needed for careers has strongly impacted mathematics curriculum and assessment. Meaningful assessment involves examining students' ability to inquire, to reason on targeted questions or tasks, and ...
Audrey De Zeeuw, Tara Craig, Hye Sun You
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Conceptual development and conversational understanding
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004Children's understanding of the implications of conversation can influence their responses on tasks designed to measure conceptual development. These responses are in keeping with developmental changes in the ability to recognize and resolve ambiguity in communicative contexts, as shown, for example, in children's ability to compute "scalar ...
Surian, Luca, M. Siegal
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Conceptual Understandings of Vulnerability
2021Vulnerability has been conventionally operationalised in policy and practice as an exception despite evidence of its presence throughout criminal justice processes. Existing approaches to vulnerability in policing have focused on recognised (and recognisable) categories of disadvantage.
Nicole L. Asquith +1 more
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Understanding quality in conceptual modeling
IEEE Software, 1994With the increasing focus on early development as a major factor in determining overall quality, many researchers are trying to define what makes a good conceptual model. However, existing frameworks often do little more than list desirable properties.
Odd Ivar Lindland +2 more
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Measuring conceptual understanding
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education, 2008IT Educators are challenged with the task of providing learning experiences that helps learners build abstract mental models of IT concepts to help solve the complex, ill-defined problems they will face. But of the many instructional strategies discussed in the literature how can we tell which methods are better for the different types of IT knowledge ...
Steven Rigby +3 more
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Improving the understanding of conceptual modelling
Journal of Simulation, 2007Conceptual modelling, determining what to include in the model and at what level of detail, affects model performance directly. However, it has so far received little attention in the literature mainly because conceptual modelling is viewed as more of an art than science.
Wang Wang, Roger J. Brooks
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A conceptual framework for understanding iatrophobia
Patient Education and Counseling, 2019Iatrophobia - fear of doctors, medical care, or the medical care system - is common among patients and can negatively impact their health-seeking behaviors and relationships with health care professionals. Despite this, academic literature on iatrophobia often fails to explore its nuanced causes.We establish a conceptual framework of iatrophobia ...
Mara A.G. Hollander, Michele G. Greene
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Understanding healing: a conceptual analysis
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1996The practice of the healing arts has been a part of human history since ancient times Despite the development of related scholarly concepts in nursing such as caring, healing remains an enigma Using conceptual analysis a clear definition of healing within a Rogerian/Newmaman framework is explicated Case development assists in the understanding of ...
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Conceptual understanding in history
European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1997There has been considerable interest in the topic of conceptual understanding especially as found in mathematics and the sciences. The present paper discusses recent studies related to conceptual understanding in the domain of history, comparing the nature of understanding as found in history to that other domains.
James F. Voss, Jennifer Wiley
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The conceptual understanding of nutrikinetics
Nutrition & Food Science, 2019Purpose The purpose of the study is to highlights the conceptual and scientific knowledge regarding bioavailability of food bioactive components which is essential for the thorough understanding of their role in disease prevention and factors that limit their absorption.
Harsimran Riar +6 more
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