Search for dissertations about: "students’ understanding"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 412 swedish dissertations containing the words students’ understanding.

  2. 1. Understanding learning and learning for understanding : Exploring medical students' personal understandings of learning tasks and experiences of learning and understanding in medicine

    Author : Anna Bonnevier; Max Scheja; Anna Josephson; Thomas Lavelle; Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Approaches to learning; experiences of learning; higher education; high-quality understanding; medical student learning; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : The central concern of the thesis is to problematise the complexity of the relationship between student learning and the teaching-learning environment in medicine as experienced by students. The thesis argues that learning material presented to students offers only potential for learning. READ MORE

  4. 2. Ecological understanding : a space of variation

    Author : Britta Carlsson; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at increasing the knowledge of ecological understanding. For this purpose a phenomenographic approach, founded on the theory of variation, is adopted. As a means of expanding the outcome space, a Vygotskian approach to learning is also applied. READ MORE

  5. 3. Students' understandings of multiplication

    Author : Kerstin Larsson; Kerstin Pettersson; Paul Andrews; Lieven Verschaffel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Multiplication; students’ understanding; connections; multiplicative reasoning; models for multiplication; calculations; arithmetical properties; matematikämnets didaktik; Mathematics Education;

    Abstract : Multiplicative reasoning permeates many mathematical topics, for example fractions and functions. Hence there is consensus on the importance of acquiring multiplicative reasoning. READ MORE

  6. 4. Teaching photosynthesis in a compulsory school context : Students' reasoning, understanding and interactions

    Author : Helena Näs; Christina Ottander; Sylvia Benckert; Jenny Lewis; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; teaching; primary and secondary school; plants; photosynthesis and respiration; Undervisning; mellan- och högstadiet; växter; fotosyntes och cellandning; Subject didactics; Ämnesdidaktik; didactics of natural science; naturvetenskapens didaktik;

    Abstract : According to previous research, students show difficulties in understanding photosynthesis and respiration, and basic ecological concepts like energy flow in ecosystems. There are successful teaching units accomplished in this area and many of them can be described as inquiry-based teaching. READ MORE

  7. 5. Understanding as experiencing a pattern

    Author : Paulina Lindström; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Understanding; eye-tracking; mathematical problem solving; cognition; pedagogy;

    Abstract : The thesis proposes that understanding is a matter of experiencing a pattern. To experience a pattern involves seeing how a task, principle, or problem space is structured; to attend to the relevant information; and to be able to use that information as it relates to the knowledge domain at hand. READ MORE