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James L. Merle; Madeline F. Larson; Clayton R. Cook – Grantee Submission, 2023
Social-emotional learning (SEL) and character education are important components of adolescent development. In this study, we evaluated a randomized controlled trial of CharacterStrong, a curriculum that combines SEL and character education that included 1609 students and 242 teachers across 14 schools. This study applied baseline target…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Social Emotional Learning, Values Education, Self Efficacy
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Lopez-Manjon, Asuncion; Angon, Yolanda Postigo – Journal of Biological Education, 2009
There is no agreement about the robustness of intuitive representations of the circulatory system and their susceptibility to change by instruction. In this paper, we analyse to what extent students with varying degrees of biology instruction and different ages (High School Health Science and Social Science students and first and final year…
Descriptors: Physiology, Anatomy, Human Body, Psychology
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Nasir, Na'ilah Suad – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2005
In this article, I explore the relation between the sociocultural and individual cognitive structuring as elementary school students, high school students, and adults play the strategic game of dominoes. I present data from a study in which players at each level were observed and video-recorded during domino tournament play. Findings reveal the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Cognitive Structures, Sociocultural Patterns
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von Aufschnaiter, Claudia; von Aufschnaiter, Stefan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
In the literature, learners' cognitive development is mainly discussed with respect to changes in learners' content-dependent knowledge (conceptual change or growth). Additional dimensions of time and complexity may also be taken into account to describe cognitive processes in at least three dimensions. We discuss these three dimensions of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures