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Sam Rhodes; Kelly Reigle; Rita Della Valle; Jennifer Gonzales – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Metacognition supports students in successfully working through struggle by equipping them with the tools to maintain an awareness of what they are doing and to change directions when needed to overcome obstacles. Thus, it is of little surprise that effective problem solvers spend a significant amount of time analyzing tasks relative to the amount…
Descriptors: Student Development, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Mathematics Education
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Izel Can; Didem Inel Ekici – Educational Studies, 2024
This explanatory case study aims to investigate conceptual changes on the part of gifted and talented students and describe their reflective thinking with regard to problem-solving as part of the problem-based learning (PBL) process. Twenty-two gifted and talented fourth grade primary school students participated in the study. The students were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Academically Gifted, Science Instruction
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Bidwell, Deborah; Smirnoff, Dimitri – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
University students crave immersive, collaborative, interdisciplinary, applied learning contextualized to real world sustainability challenges. Liberal arts and sciences institutions are particularly well positioned to respond. Here we report on our high impact, cross-disciplinary, biomimicry-themed firstyear experience (FYE) curricula. Biomimicry…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
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DeLiema, David; Kwon, Yejin Angela; Chisholm, Andrea; Williams, Immanuel; Dahn, Maggie; Flood, Virginia J.; Abrahamson, Dor; Steen, Francis F. – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
When teachers, researchers, and students describe productively responding to moments of failure in the learning process, what might this mean? Blending prior theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between failure and learning, and empirical results from four data sets that are part of a larger design-based research project, we…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Learning Processes, Correlation, Failure
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Roberto-Flórez, Eliana Edith; Arias-Rodríguez, Gladis Leonor; Herreño-Contreras, Yomaira Angélica – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2022
This paper reports qualitative research on constructing critical thinking scenarios in online legal English classes at a private university in Colombia. This study aimed to enhance law students' critical thinking skills development in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom through virtual tools by implementing a descriptive case analysis.…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences
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Park, Kyung-jin – English Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the effects of complex problem-solving activities involving children's literature on students' critical thinking dispositions and English production. Thirty-one sixth-grade students were given lessons over a seven-week period. Various types of data were analyzed qualitatively, and the results of a critical thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning