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Hilary B. Vidair; Pam L. Gustafson; Eva L. Feindler – Oxford University Press, 2024
Are you a graduate student in an applied psychology, mental health, or education program? Are you learning to apply your field's theories and methods in practice while anticipating conducting a final research or scholarly project? Or are you a faculty member advising, mentoring, and chairing dissertations or theses? This guide is for you.…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Student Research, Student Projects
Loo, Sai, Ed.; Jameson, Jill, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education" presents a collection of research-based papers on the 'English model' of vocationalism and higher education. It argues that negative societal and political perceptions have hindered the debate about the significance and relevance of vocational education and training provision to learning,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training
Felmer, Patricio, Ed.; Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Koichu, Boris, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
Recent research in problem solving has shifted its focus to actual classroom implementation and what is really going on during problem solving when it is used regularly in classroom. This book seeks to stay on top of that trend by approaching diverse aspects of current problem solving research, covering three broad themes. Firstly, it explores the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers
Henderson, Peter; Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Kuchemann, Dietmar – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This guidance report focuses on the teaching of mathematics to pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive guide to mathematics teaching. We have made recommendations where there are research findings that schools can use to make a significant difference to pupils' learning, and have focused on the questions that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
Gauvain, Mary; Beebe, Heidi; Zhao, Shuheng – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
Cognitive development is a cultural process. More experienced cultural members and the practices, institutions, and artifacts of the culture provide support and guidance for children as they develop knowledge and thinking skills. In this article, the authors describe the value that is added to our understanding of cognitive development when…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Tyson, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
This article is written for scholars, researchers, and academic leaders who have a passion to share their knowledge outside the classroom, laboratory, or institution. They want to make a difference and believe that the information they possess and ideas they have to offer have a public importance. Based on his book "Pitch Perfect:…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Researchers, Higher Education, Leadership

Klein, Harriet B.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
Forty-five normally developing children, ages five, six, and seven, participated in a metaphonologic study examining the knowledge of auditory/articulatory correspondences. With development, there were significant increases in correct responses on the nonverbal task and in verbal explanation types. No significant relationship between performance…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Metacognition, Phonemes, Phonology

Wiegand, Patrick; Stiell, Bernadette – Educational Studies, 1996
Presents the results of an experiment that asked 53 middle school children to identify continent shapes and to arrange them to form a map of the world. Australia, Europe, and Asia were the most recognized. Misidentified and misaligned most consistently were Africa and Antarctica. Discusses possible reasons and teachers' responses. (MJP)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Fundamental Concepts, Geographic Location, Geography

Wiegand, Patrick; Stiell, Bernadette – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1997
Summarizes the results of an experiment that asks 363 postgraduate student teachers in England to draw a sketch map of the British Isles. The maps were scored in terms of the number and definition of coastal features drawn and the relative area of the constituent political units. (MJP)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching

Steuer, Faye B. – Teaching of Psychology, 1996
Provides an overview of the recent research concerning the application, benefits, and deficiencies regarding critical-reading skills and college instruction. Discusses how reading skills support cognitive processes necessary for acquiring psychological knowledge. Delineates the differences between narrative (story-like, believable) reading and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Background, Intellectual Development
Lesh, Richard, Ed.; Lamon, Susan J., Ed. – 1992
This book grew out of a conference sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the University of Wisconsin's National Center for Research in Mathematical Science Education that focused on assessment issues in mathematics education. The book's 16 chapters focus on clarifying and articulating the goals of assessment and instruction. They are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends

Clarkson, Philip C. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Results of a comparison of Papua New Guinea bilingual and monolingual students' (n=232) mathematics achievement indicated that bilingual students competent in both languages scored significantly higher on two different types of mathematical tests than both low-competent bilingual students and monolingual students. (32 references)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Analysis of Covariance, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Measurement

Davis, Gary Ernest – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1989
Describes the method of having children observe videotapes of other children's mathematics activities to gain insights into the observing children's thought processes and the observed children's activities. Discusses the applications of this method as a research tool and as a probe for classroom teachers in evaluating students. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Ceci, Stephen J.; Baker, Jacquelyn G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The article reports research supporting a view which sees learning disabilities as resulting from the interplay between a poorly elaborated knowledge base (especially in language related domains), the biologically determined efficiencies of such processes as encoding, and the physical and social meaning attached to performance (i.e. the context).…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level

Freppon, Penny A. – 1993
This study described ways in which two groups of urban, low-socioeconomic children remained the same and differed after a transition year in skills-based curriculum and a continuing year in whole language curriculum. Both groups had experienced whole language instruction in the first two years in kindergarten and first grade. This investigation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis