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Feldon, David F. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Acquiring research skills is considered to be a highly challenging aspect of developing expertise in the social sciences. Because instruction and mentoring in these skills are typically grounded in the self-report of researchers, difficulties in learning the material may be due to the content and accuracy of these explanations. Using a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Sciences, Data Analysis, Research Skills
Knaus, Karen J.; Murphy, Kristen L.; Holme, Thomas A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
The design and use of a chemistry practice exam instrument that includes a measure for student mental effort is described in this paper. Use of such an instrument can beneficial to chemistry students and chemistry educators as well as chemical education researchers from both a content and cognitive science perspective. The method for calculating…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, Tests, College Students
Kosslyn, Stephen M. – 1987
The technique developed in this research paper for analyzing the information in charts and graphs is designed to reveal design flaws in the display that may prevent them from conveying information effectively. This analytic scheme requires isolating four types of constituents in a display and specifying their structure and interrelations at the…
Descriptors: Charts, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Evaluation Criteria

Tunks, Thomas W. – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1989
Summarizes and critiques Berberich's dissertation on cognitive effects on music perception. Comments on the study's unusual data analysis and presentation. States that the main arguments are presented elegantly and clearly, but the study overlooked other issues such as a chapter on related literature. (LS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Leinhardt, Gaea – 1983
This report is a pilot effort to understand how knowledge imformation is effectively imparted in a classroom. The work is built on a study of the cognitions of effective teaching. Expert teachers were identified by monitoring the gain scores of students in classrooms over a 5-year period. All teachers were interviewed, observed, and videotaped…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education

Bransford, John D.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1986
Elaborates on the article "Synthesis of Research on the Effectiveness of Intellectual Skills Programs: Snake-Oil Remedies or Miracle Cures?" by Sternberg and Bhana. Encourages the development of a theory that could provide a guide to the infusion of thinking instruction into any area of inquiry. (IW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Educational Change

Marland, Percy; And Others – Distance Education, 1984
Describes a process-tracing study which investigated study approaches adopted by four distance learners enrolled in the Bachelor of Education Program at James Cook University and their mental processes when learning from distance-teaching materials in order to identify textual features which activated mental processes for use in textual design.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Design Requirements, Distance Education
Norris, Stephen P. – 1985
The usefulness of studying thought processes in the construct validation of ability tests was examined using a sample consisting of 343 Canadian senior high school students. Four levels of probing were used by the interviewer to examine the students' thinking processes while taking the Test on Appraising Observations: (1) think aloud; (2)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Critical Thinking