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Gr ver Aukrust, Vibeke, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and encompasses many topics including attention, memory, categorization,…
Descriptors: Memory, Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving
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Railean, Elena, Ed.; Alev Elçi, Ed.; Elçi, Atilla, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Metacognition plays an important role in numerous aspects of higher educational learning strategies. When properly integrated in the educational system, schools are better equipped to build more efficient and successful learning strategies for students in higher education. "Metacognition and Successful Learning Strategies in Higher…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Sustainability
Christenson, Sandra L., Ed.; Reschly, Amy L., Ed.; Wylie, Cathy, Ed. – Springer, 2012
For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Research, Learning Motivation, Educational Indicators
Jones, Robert S. P.; Vaughan, Francis L.; Roberts, Mary – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Comparison for memory for spatial location of 30 persons with and 30 persons without mental retardation found the control group recalled more intentionally learned than incidentally learned locations. The experimental group performed better after incidental learning than after intentional learning and scored as highly as controls on incidental…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Mapping, Incidental Learning
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Wagner, Richard K.; Sternberg, Robert J. – Review of Educational Research, 1984
Three major views of intelligence are compared and evaluated: the psychometric, the Piagetian, and the information-processing. The educational implications of each view for training content knowledge and intellectual skills are considered. How each view would approach training students in solving verbal analogies is discussed. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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Faas, Larry A.; D'Alonzo, Bruno J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
Eighty-six adults (mean age 26 years) with learning disabilities were evaluated clinically using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Significant relationships were identified between subjects' WAIS-R intelligence quotients and scaled scores and job success. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Experience, Intelligence, Learning Disabilities
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La Pierre, Sharon D. – 1992
Little has been researched about the professional artist's preferred style of thinking, his/her manner of acquiring and utilizing knowledge, and how it affects the learning process. This investigation used a revised method of naturalistic inquiry for the purpose of developing a research method that was responsive to the uniqueness of artistic…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Artists, Cognitive Style
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Wilson, R. Graham; Lynn, Richard – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents a study of Irish primary and secondary schoolchildren learning Irish as a second language. Discusses intelligence abilities, attainment in Irish, personality traits, and attitude toward learning foreign languages. Concludes personality measures were not strongly related to cognitive measures, but attitude may play a role. Reports no…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Intelligence
Johnson, Kathryn Mary; And Others – 1984
Several common assumptions about human intelligence are challenged in this paper. The "bucket" theory of intelligence describes intelligence as a stable psychological characteristic which affects learning, and which, when accurately measured, predicts an individual's learning capacity. The authors reject the idea that people who have…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Educational History
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Watson, Betty U. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study found correlations (.45 to .59) between scores on a battery of auditory discrimination tasks and measures of intelligence and academic aptitude in two samples of college students. An implication is that intelligence is a potential confounding variable in studies of the auditory perceptual abilities of various clinical populations.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, College Students, Disabilities, Discrimination Learning
Mittelholtz, David J.; And Others – 1985
Differences in learning processes were studied in more versus less intellectually able undergraduate students. Thirty subjects were selected to represent a wide range of general and mathematical reasoning abilities, based on the following test scores: Necessary Arithmetic Operations and Vocabulary Test V2 from the Educational Testing Service ETS…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style
Gajar, Anna; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research, 1989
This study compared achievement discrepancies for two groups of college students--a randomly selected group of freshmen and a sample of students identified as learning disabled. It found such a considerable overlap in achievement/ability discrepancies between the two groups that such discrepancies could not be considered diagnostic. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Diagnosis, Higher Education
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Minskoff, Esther H.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Learning-disabled adults (N=145) participating in vocational rehabilitation were found to constitute a homogeneous group with severe deficits, exhibiting: low-average general intelligence; lower verbal than performance Intelligence Quotients; attention, reasoning, and auditory memory deficits; academic achievement at the fourth/fifth-grade level;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Classification, Evaluation
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Cole, Peter G. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1993
This paper presents a theoretical model illustrating L. Siegel's revisionist conceptualization of learning disabilities and then presents an alternative underachievement model. The paper argues that the alternative model applies standard regression procedures which would lead to a more appropriate definition of learning disabilities and applies…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient
Young, Barbara N. – 1990
This study investigated the correlation between self-concept and reading achievement level in 20 reading-disabled students (mean age 10.3 years, mean grade level 4.75), having average intelligence. Self-concept was assessed using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale and reading achievement level by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Intelligence, Intermediate Grades
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