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Kubsch, Marcus; Touitou, Israel; Nordine, Jeffrey; Fortus, David; Neumann, Knut; Krajcik, Joseph – Education Sciences, 2020
Knowledge-in-Use, i.e., the ability to apply what one has learned, is a major goal of education and involves the ability to transfer one's knowledge. While some general principles of knowledge transfer have been revealed, the literature is full of inconclusive results and it remains hard to predict successful transfer. However, research into…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Middle School Students
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Pasco, Denis; Ennis, Catherine D. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2015
Students' prior knowledge has been identified to play an important role in the learning process through conceptual change. In physical education, positive changes in students' lifestyles may come from changes in their conceptual understanding. In this study 45 third grade students (mean age = 8.54 years) were interviewed during their regular…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Physical Education, Student Attitudes
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Berkant, Hasan Güner; Baysal, Seda – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The changes which occur during the learning process have been explained by many teaching-learning models and theories. One of these models is allosteric learning model (ALM) which was developed by André Giordan in 1989. This model was derived from a biological metaphor related to proteins. The interaction between individual and environment in a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Lesson Plans, Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques
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Barabási, Tünde – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2013
One of the most important tasks of the elementary (and not only) education we can find the teaching pupils to learn. The main topic of this paper is the presentation of the effects of teacher's experiences gotten in their own learning process as students or adults on the development of children's learning strategies. As the research was made in…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Elementary School Teachers, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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Holden, Becky – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2007
Seeking more effective mathematics instruction, this author decided to incorporate Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) into first-grade classroom lessons. Students in CGI mathematics classrooms are prompted to use their prior knowledge to solve new problems, establish cognitive structures to which new learning can be connected, and be driven by…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
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Liu, Zhiliang; Chen, Guanying – English Language Teaching, 2009
To know the age effects in foreign language learning for children in China, we made both qualitative survey on the English teachers, the students and their parents by means of questionnaire; and quantitative survey on the students' scores from junior 1 to senior 2 (5 years) in the secondary school by analyses between those (over 30 students) who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Cognitive Structures