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Al-Hilawani, Yasser A. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Proposed guidelines have been published recently (Al-Hilawani, 2016) to help identify and determine for the first time the existence of learning disabilities among students in the Middle East Arab (M.E.A.) countries. These guidelines have been drawn from recent and up-to-date information available on learning disabilities. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Li-fang; Horta, Hugo; Jung, Jisun; Chen, Gaowei; Postiglione, Gerard A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
This research pioneered the investigation of the role of doctoral students' thinking styles in their program satisfaction and perceived intellectual competence. Participants were 285 STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) students in Hong Kong. Results showed that students' thinking styles as measured by the Thinking Styles…
Descriptors: Role, Cognitive Style, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
Demetriou, Andreas; Christou, Constantinos – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2015
Information flows continuously in the environment. As we attempt to do something, our senses receive large volumes of information. In any conversation, messages are exchanged rapidly. To understand meaning, we have to focus, record, choose and process relevant information at every moment, before it is displaced by other information. Often,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Individual Differences, Intelligence, Inferences
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Gao, Perry – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Children naturally love to learn, but might not like to be taught in certain ways. Teachers' improper ways of teaching might make a child shut down his or her willingness to learn, which is called "not-learning". Not-learning does not refer to an incapability to learn, but is rather a choice a child intentionally or unintentionally makes…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Development
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Kell, Harrison J.; Lubinski, David – Roeper Review, 2013
For over 60 years, longitudinal research on tens of thousands of high ability and intellectually precocious youth has consistently revealed the importance of spatial ability for hands-on creative accomplishments and the development of expertise in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. Yet, individual differences in…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Individual Differences, Ability Identification, Talent Identification
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Terras, Melody M.; Ramsay, Judith – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer an exciting range of opportunities to widen access and participation in education. The massive and open nature of MOOCs places the control of learning at the discretion of the learner. Therefore, it is essential to understand learner behaviour. This paper examines the psychological considerations inherent…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Performance Factors, Barriers
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Blaga, Otilia M.; Shaddy, D. Jill; Anderson, Christa J.; Kannass, Kathleen N.; Little, Todd D.; Colombo, John – Intelligence, 2009
We evaluated over 200 participants semiannually from 12 to 48 months of age on measures of intellectual (Bayley Scales, Stanford-Binet Scale) and verbal (MacArthur-Bates Inventory, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test) status. Structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear (growth curve) analyses were applied to address the nature of development…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Preschool Children, Infants, Intellectual Development
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth – Journal of General Education, 2007
By investigating undergraduates' epistemological orientations and processes in academic and personal contexts, this study examined whether and how epistemological development in one context is related to development in another context. The focus of this particular study was on tension regarding the contextuality of epistemological development. The…
Descriptors: Epistemology, College Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping