Norma Miller

Norma Miller
Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá | UTP · Departamento de Ciencias Exactas

Doctor of Philosophy

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Resumen. La ecoformación, modelo educativo adoptado recientemente por la Universidad Castro Carazo, busca convertir la institución en una comunidad de aprendientes con conciencia planetaria. En ese sentido, trasciende la población estudiantil para incorporar a docentes y colaboradores. Con el objetivo de llegar a una visión compartida por todos los...
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Las ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias (EDO) constituyen una parte significativa de cualquier currículo de ingeniería o CTIM. No obstante, los estudiantes a menudo cuestionan la relevancia para su vida profesional de las matemáticas que aprenden en los cursos de EDO. En buena medida esto se debe a que pocas veces se establecen nexos reales y creíb...
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Some misconceptions about physics are hard to change. For example, students continue to believe that heavier objects fall faster than light ones, even after a year of physics instruction. Physics misconceptions are persistent. Light objects do fall more slowly if their size-to-weight ratio is sufficient for drag to be appreciable. Motion through a...
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Karpicke and Blunt (Reports, 11 February 2011, p. 772) reported that retrieval practice produces greater gains in learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping and concluded that this strategy is a powerful way to promote meaningful learning of complex concepts commonly found in science education. We question their findings on methodologi...
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El Proyecto Conéctate al Conocimiento ha capacitado a miles de maestros Panameños en la construcción y uso de mapas conceptuales como medio para fomentar formas más significativas de aprendizaje para sus alumnos. Como resultado, los servidores de mapas de las escuelas que participan en el Proyecto contienen miles de mapas conceptuales producidos po...
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Resumen. El objetivo del presente estudio fue explorar el impacto de dar retroalimentación oportuna y relevante a mapas conceptuales de estudiantes, concrétamente en su motivación por re-trabajar sus mapas para expresar una comprensión más profunda del tema tratado en los mismos. Al grupo experimental se le formularon preguntas pedagógicas mientras...
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The effective use of concept maps in education has been limited by a generalized tendency amongst learners to construct descriptive concept maps, characterized primarily by static propositions. Adequate representation of knowledge, however, calls for both description and explanation, that is, a combination of both static and dynamic propositions. T...
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At Panama’s Conéctate al Conocimiento Project there was the need to develop measurement tools to help assess the Project’s overall progress towards the goal of implementing the use of concept maps for meaningful learning in the country’s public elementary schools. Efforts in this direction led to the development of a taxonomy for concept maps consi...
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This article presents results from a study that explored skill acquisition in computer-mediated concept-mapping by Panamanian schoolteachers being trained at the Conéctate Project. The CmapTools Recorder was used for the first time as a research tool, and provided copious information concerning the human-machine interaction taking place during Cmap...
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The conceptual card deck is a game for the collaborative construction of concept maps. It was developed at the Conéctate al Conocimiento Project of Panama as an easy way to introduce novice mappers to concept maps and propositional structure, with very little prior explanation of these notions. Though it has been used by some of the Project's facil...
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Llegar a construir mapas conceptuales de calidad, que muestren claramente comprensión y entendimiento del tema representado es un proceso que usualmente empieza con mapas pobres, tanto en su estructura topológica como en su semántica, y que mejora con el tiempo, práctica y retroalimentación de parte del maestro o personas con mayor experiencia. En...
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Many studies have shown that, as a tool for the organization and representation of knowledge, concept maps can support meaningful learning and knowledge construction processes. Good concept maps can lead to the discovery of new and unsuspected relations among concepts, thereby stimulating students’ creativity. In Panama, concept maps have been know...
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Infoplazas arose in Panama as a means to combat the digital divide by providing Internet connectivity to the economically disadvantaged and geographically remote. Yet there is a dearth of information regarding their actual performance. This study constitutes a first attempt to assess the contribution of infoplazas to the diffusion and use of the In...
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This article analyses, from a neurolinguistic perspective, results obtained from the application of a taxonomy of concept maps developed at the Conéctate al Conocimiento Project in Panama to a sample of over 500 maps. The 2-part taxonomy consists of a topological taxonomy and a semantic scoring rubric. Of particular interest to us is the associatio...

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