Diagnostic assessments are designed to support teachers in understanding the raw material that they and their students will be working with in the classroom to construct understandings of scientific ideas (Treagust 1995).
To ensure that knowledge of the nature of science related to evolution does not become inert, teachers would benefit from engaging in scientific practices to construct understandings of evolution.
Here, text helps construct understandings of the world that builds social realities (e.g., social relations, class categories, gender fractions, and racial groupings), state formations (e.g., economic programs, fiscal policies, and government redistributive schemes), and material realities (e.g., landscapes, cities, neighborhoods, and nations).
To identify and discuss the antecedents and the drivers of the FinTech phenomenon, we analyze the media discourse on the socially constructed understanding of the phenomenon, the interrelationships between influencing factors and technological change which are treated as unavoidable (Cukier et al. 2009).
For example, even though the 2012 African National Congress gender policy discussion document starts off by observing that 'gender is a socially constructed understanding of what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman' (2), and there is reference to men and relatively more mention of boys in the document, what the document is basically aimed at is women's and girls' empowerment.
There are socially and scientifically constructed understandings of what weather is, what makes it change, the effect it has on humans in different situations, etc. Therefore weather is something people often communicate about.
We looked for studies that described at least two of the following seven constructs: understanding of ET, acceptance of ET, instruction in ET, prior exposure to ET, religious beliefs, understanding the nature of science, and understanding scientific theories.
We performed a comprehensive literature search focusing on publications that analyzed and compared at least two of the following constructs: understanding of evolutionary theory (ET), acceptance of ET, instruction in ET, prior exposure to ET, religious beliefs, understanding the nature of science, and understanding of scientific theories.
Rather than beginning with the D.S.M.'s placeholders and then seeking the biochemistry underlying them — which Hyman called a "fool's errand" — N.I.M.H. would encourage scientists to start with what is already known about the brain's role in mental suffering and try to build on that to construct an understanding of mental illness.
In such a process, the learner is an active recipient of information who works to construct meaningful understanding of information found in the environment (Wittrock 1974).
