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Concept Maps As Sites Of Rhetorical Invention: Teaching The Creative Act Of Synthesis As A Cognitive Process, Amy Lee Marie Locklear
Concept Maps As Sites Of Rhetorical Invention: Teaching The Creative Act Of Synthesis As A Cognitive Process, Amy Lee Marie Locklear
English Theses & Dissertations
Synthesis is one of the most cognitively demanding practices novice writers must undertake, and research demonstrates that first-year students’ synthesis writing practices result in more knowledge telling rather than knowledge creation and transforming. Pedagogies used to teach synthesis often focus on developing text-building strategies but lack explicit instruction on the more cognitively demanding conceptualizing behavior. To explore alternative pedagogies and heuristics, this study looks beyond composition scholarship to incorporate studies in neuroeducation and rhetoric to define synthesis as an ongoing, generative act of cognitive invention, effectively shifting pedagogical focus from text-centered product to student-centered cognitive processes that inform development of …
Learning Statistics Using Concept Maps: Effects On Anxiety And Performance, Patrick Francis Cravalho
Learning Statistics Using Concept Maps: Effects On Anxiety And Performance, Patrick Francis Cravalho
Master's Theses
The aim of this thesis was to study the use of concept mapping in an
undergraduate statistics course in order to examine the effects on statistics anxiety and
academic performance by means of a two-group quasi-experimental design. Two
undergraduate statistics classes were recruited for this study with one serving as the
treatment (concept map) group and one serving as the control (standard instruction)
group. It was hypothesized that the use of concept mapping would decrease the statistics
anxiety and improve the academic performance of students in the concept map group
when compared with the control group. The statistics anxiety of …