Abstract The present work examines the role of reflection in supporting development argument skill. Participants who engaged argumentation practice with additional reflective activities outperformed a control group only practice. experimental showed greater gains developing skill – particularly employing evidence to weaken an opposing position. Experimental condition participants also exhibited...

Group dynamic assessment (G-DA) grounded in Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory (SCT) is believed to have the potential to provide a context for capturing a group of learners’ Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) (Poehner & Lantolf, 2010; Shabani, 2010). The present study aims at testing the applicability of G-DA in identifying the mediational strategies offered by a mediator during his G-DA interac...

هدف: با توجه به رشد روزافزون آموزش شیوه مجازی و ویژه در شرایط گسترش پاندمی کرونایروس، نقش اساسی مدیریت کلاسی ارتقا کیفیت باید مورد قرار گیرد این پژوهش هدف تدوین مدل رابطه علّی هدفمند کلاس وضعیت روان‌شناختی پیامدهای تحصیلی دانشجویان انجام شد. روش: روش بر حسب هدف، کاربردی ماهیت از نوع توصیفی - همبستگی بود. جامعه آماری مشتمل انواع مقاطع دانشگاه­ های دولتی پیام نور شهر تهران نمونه اساس جدول مورگان ب...

Abstract This article uses a cultural-developmental framework to illuminate the interplay between collective and individual activity in mathematical reasoning displayed university Masters level lesson on fractals. During whole class small group discussions, eleven students, guided by an instructor, engage inductive about area perimeter of Sierpinski triangle, unique object with zero infinite pe...

Abstract The study of ageing, which received growing attention over the past 30 years, has progressively realised importance cultural, historical, and socio-economical environment for various courses ageing. However, we believe that it could be further conceptualised. First, propose to enrich through notion “landscape care” developed by geography. Second, distinction sociocultural psychologists...

To examine patterns of strategy choice and discovery during problem-solving of a novel locomotor task, 13.5- and 18-month-old infants were placed at the top of a staircase and encouraged to descend. Spontaneous stair descent strategy choices were documented step by step and trial by trial to provide a microgenetic account of problem-solving in action. Younger infants tended to begin each trial ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether patients suffering from a chronic illness and taking medication which can affect their cognitive functioning are able to assess their own cognitive performance, as compared to healthy controls. Can we observe improvements in the accuracy of these self-evaluations as treatment progresses? 58 epilepsy patients participated in the first part of the st...

Many preschoolers know that plants and animals share basic biological properties, but this knowledge does not usually lead them to conclude that plants, like animals, are living things. To resolve this seeming paradox, we hypothesized that preschoolers largely base their judgments of life status on a biological property, capacity for teleological action, but that few preschoolers realize that p...