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Direct linkDumas, Denis – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
This review brings together the literature that pertains to the role of relational reasoning, or the ability to discern meaningful patterns within any stream of information, in the mental work of scientists, medical doctors, and engineers. Existing studies that measure four forms of relational reasoning--analogy, anomaly, antinomy, and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Sciences, Medicine, Engineering
Hyndman, Brendon; Mahony, Linda – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
Creativity is described as an important cognitive process by which ideas are generated, developed and transformed. Despite the importance of creativity for students' intellectual development, the types of outdoor physical activities students engage in within primary schools according to creativity criteria has yet to be explored. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Outdoor Education, Physical Activities, Qualitative Research
Patterson, Michael C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
The present study investigated the use of multiple digital media technologies, including social networking platforms, by students while preparing for an examination (media multitasking) and the subsequent effects on exam performance. The level of media multitasking (number of simultaneous media technologies) and duration of study were used as…
Descriptors: Testing, Performance, Study Habits, Study Skills
Lee, Scott W. F. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2013
Researchers and educators recognize that performance assessments and naturalistic observations are well suited for assessing young children's thinking abilities and understanding. The need to establish explicit evaluation criteria to guide assessment decisions has led to the widespread use of rubrics. Rubrics tend to channel assessors to look for…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Thinking Skills
Hancock, Cheryl J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research describes a qualitative, naturalistic case study of a situation-specific, in-depth exploration of the use of ten student discussion roles in and adult education, online asynchronous discussions. Discussion roles were designed in order to enable students to respond better and create deeper and more meaning-filled threaded discussions,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Naturalistic Observation, Case Studies, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Wheeler, Anne; Hatton, Deborah; Reichardt, Alison; Bailey, Don – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: The behaviours of 24 mothers of children with fragile X syndrome (FXS) with their affected children were examined during planned observations in their homes. The goal of this study was to describe concurrent maternal interactive behaviour and the factors that influence the type and frequency of these behaviours within this group.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Naturalistic Observation, Rating Scales, Receptive Language
