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Strength training intervention for adult individuals with knee osteoarthritis: Establishing fidelity Open

Hamza Küçük, Niloufar Ghadamyari, Fatma Neşe Şahin, Güner Çiçek, Tülay Ceylan , et al. · 2025

Background Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a prevalent chronic condition among the adult individuals, leading to pain, joint stiffness, and muscle weakness. Resistance training is an effective strategy for alleviating KOA-related symptoms and…

Investigation of the playing digital games on shoulder flexibility, muscle strength and reaction speed in volleyball players Open

Şevin Güney, Fatma Neşe Şahin, Cansel Arslanoğlu, Özkan Güler, Mert Aydoğmuş , et al. · 2024

Esports is a natural extension of digital games. Digital games provide a platform for players to showcase their skills, thereby forming the foundation of e-sports. These two domains continuously support each other, demonstrating significan…

Retrieval Practices Enhance Computational and Scientific Thinking Skills Open

Osman Yaşar, Jose Maliekal, Peter Veronesi, Leigh Little, Michael Meise , et al. · 2022

The notion of teaching experts’ habits of mind (e.g., computational thinking and scientific thinking) to novices seems to have inspired many educators and researchers worldwide. In particular, a great deal of efforts has been invested in c…

How modelling can shed light on memory retrieval Open

Osman Yaşar · 2022

Memory Retrieval Strategies to Help Retain STEM Content Knowledge Open

Osman Yaşar, Peter Veronesi, Jose Maliekal, Leigh Little, John Tillotson · 2020

We report about computational pedagogical experiences to help students retrieve content they learn in class, retain it, and apply it in different contexts to solve problems. Supported by professional development for teachers, these experie…

The Essence of Scientific and Engineering Thinking and Tools to Promote It Open

Osman Yaşar, Jose Maliekal, Peter Veronesi, Leigh Little · 2018

This article is an attempt to contribute to the discourse on the essence of scientific and engineering thinking by presenting a cognitive framework that is aligned with views from epistemology, cognitive and neurosciences and supported by …

The essence of computational thinking and tools to promote it Open

Osman Yaşar, Jose Maliekal, Peter Veronesi, Leigh Little · 2018

A decade of discourse to capture the essence of computational thinking (CT) has resulted in a set of skills whose teaching at the K-12 level poses many challenges because of the reliance on the use of electronic computers and programming c…

Computational Pedagogy: Fostering a New Method of Teaching Open

Osman Yaşar, Peter Veronesi, Jose Maliekal, Leigh Little, Sounthone Vattana , et al. · 2016

Teaching with technology still remains as a challenge. Making judicious choices of when, what and how specific tools and pedagogies to use in the teaching of a topic can be improved with the help of curriculum inventories, training, and pr…

Epistemological, Psychological, Neurosciences, and Cognitive Essence of Computational Thinking Open

Osman Yaşar · 2016

The construct of computational thinking (CT) was popularized a decade ago as an “attitude and skillset” for everyone. However, since it is equated with thinking by computer scientists, the teaching of these skills poses many challenges at …

Cognitive Aspects of Computational Modeling and Simulation in Teaching and Learning Open

Osman Yaşar · 2016

We discuss cognitive aspects of modeling and simulation in an efficacy study of computational pedagogical content knowledge professional development of K-12 STEM teachers.Evidence includes data from a wide range of educational settings ove…

A Universal Process: How Mind and Matter Seem to Work Open

Osman Yaşar · 2015

There are scientific reports suggesting striking similarities between the structures of networked systems, ranging from the tiny brain cells to atoms, to the Internet, and all the way up to even the galaxies. It is further argued that the …

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