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Joachim Wirth; Xenia-Lea Weber-Reuter; Corinna Schuster; Jens Fleischer; Detlev Leutner; Ferdinand Stebner – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Training of self-regulated learning is most effective if it supports learning strategies in combination with metacognitive regulation, and learners can transfer their acquired metacognitive regulation skills to different tasks that require the use of the same learning strategy (near transfer). However, whether learners can transfer metacognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Grade 5, Metacognition
Williams, Marjorie Dee – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how third through fifth-grade elementary school teachers within the southeastern United States describe using specific learning style strategies and students' classroom preferences during instruction. Grasha's Teaching Style Theory, Kolb's Learning Styles and Experiential Learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Cognitive Style, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
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Kaplan Sayi, Aysin; Yurtseven, Nihal – Education 3-13, 2022
Gifted students have unique characteristics and these characteristics influence their learning styles and dispositions towards learning. The purpose of this study is to examine gifted students' learning styles and to understand how gifted students articulate learning. In this convergent parallel mixed methods study, 106 (n = 106) students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Student Characteristics
English, Sherril H. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
For decades, urban public schools have been plagued by systemic and structural challenges that continue today. Scholars, policymakers, and the general public have pointed to problems of learning in urban schools and to low expectations for urban students' learning, but little attention has been given to how urban students themselves conceptualize…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Students
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Riwayatiningsih, Rika; Setyarini, Sri; Putra, Rahmat Agung Azmi – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
Since young learners have different characteristics than adults, EFL teachers for young learners should treat them differently and possess sufficient metacognitive to promote critical thinking skills. This paper aims to portray teacher's metacognitive knowledge in EFL young learners' classroom particularly in promoting their critical thinking…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Villares, Elizabeth; Colvin, Kimberly; Carey, John; Webb, Linda; Brigman, Greg; Harrington, Karen – Professional Counselor, 2014
This study examines the convergent validity and divergent validity of the Student Engagement in School Success Skills (SESSS) survey. The SESSS is easy to administer (it takes fewer than 15 minutes to complete) and is used in schools to provide educators with useful information about students' use of skills and strategies related to school…
Descriptors: Success, Learner Engagement, Student Participation, Student Surveys
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Davis, Dennis S. – Theory Into Practice, 2011
Many studies of comprehension strategies instruction rely on an internalization metaphor of strategy learning. In this view, strategies eventually enter students' heads after repeated interactions with teachers who introduce strategies and control how they are used. In this article, the author discusses the limitations of the internalization view…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Figurative Language, Cognitive Style, Grade 5
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Hsieh, Sheng-Wen; Jang, Yu-Ruei; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chen, Nian-Shing – Computers & Education, 2011
Ubiquitous learning (u-learning), in conjunction with supports from the digital world, is recognized as an effective approach for situating students in real-world learning environments. Earlier studies concerning u-learning have mainly focused on investigating the learning attitudes and learning achievements of students, while the causations such…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Ecology
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Merchie, Emmelien; Van Keer, Hilde; Vandevelde, Sabrina – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
Independently learning from informative texts becomes increasingly important from the age of 11. Little information is available, however, on (a) how and to what extent late elementary education students already apply specific text-learning strategies, and (b) whether different learner profiles can already be distinguished. In this study, a…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Grade 5, Grade 6, Profiles
McQuown, Adrienne – Online Submission, 2011
This study was conducted to determine whether or not a student's focus and motivation during a lesson is a contributor in their educational success rate. Six fifth grade students in an enrichment room from Cambria Elementary School, in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, participated in the study that spanned through April to June of 2011. These students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Student Motivation
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Liu, Ming-Chou; Wang, Jhen-Yu – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Theme-based learning (TBL) refers to learning modes which adopt the following sequence: (a) finding the theme; (b) finding a focus of interest based on the theme; (c) finding materials based on the focus of interest; (d) integrating the materials to establish shared knowledge; (e) publishing and sharing the integrated knowledge. We have created an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Style