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Acar, Aktan; Acar, A. Sebnem Soysal – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2020
First-year architecture students are expected to utilise visuospatial abilities to generate/construct, retain, rotate and manipulate space mentally and physically through physical and digital representations. This study of 57 female and 23 male participants was conducted to investigate first-year architecture students' visuospatial abilities by…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, College Freshmen, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Processes
Phan, Huy P.; Ngu, Bing H. – Oxford University Press, 2019
"Teaching, Learning and Psychology" offers comprehensive coverage of contemporary psychological issues and new directions in education. With its focus on the non-deficit nature of human behaviours and positive psychology, the book emphasises the importance of appropriate pedagogical practices for effective learning. Comprehensive and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Children, Adolescents, Cognitive Development
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Pellicano, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2010
There is strong evidence to suggest that individuals with autism show atypicalities in multiple cognitive domains, including theory of mind (ToM), executive function (EF), and central coherence (CC). In this study, the longitudinal relationships among these 3 aspects of cognition in autism were investigated. Thirty-seven cognitively able children…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Autism, Nonverbal Ability, Cognitive Development
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King, Patricia M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
Development defined as increasingly complex and adaptive forms of seeing, knowing, and caring sheds light on how to identify aims of educational programs designed to foster development. Educators who aspire to promote development as well as content mastery help students understand the basis for their decisions, explore alternative bases and…
Descriptors: Student Development, Moral Development, Cognitive Development, Reflection
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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
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Chavez, Alicia Fedelina; Guido-DiBrito, Florence; Mallory, Sherry L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2003
Extrapolating from current developmental theory and using practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice methods, the authors propose a framework for individual diversity development among faculty, staff, and students. The model offers individuals in-depth cognitive, affective and behavioral frameworks of development toward consciously valuing complex and…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Individual Development, College Students
Hardre, Patricia L.; Chen, Ching-Huei – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
This research study examined the role of instructional design knowledge in the development of teaching expertise for university teaching assistants (TAs). ID theoretically supports the development of systematic and meaningful patterns of cognitive organization that characterize teaching expertise. Therefore, it should support TAs in developing…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Individual Differences, Educational Change, Teaching Assistants
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Zhang, Li-fang – Learning & Individual Differences, 2005
The present paper reports a series of six studies, each investigating the power of self-rated analytical, creative, and practical abilities for predicting one of six individual-difference variables: cognitive development, modes of thinking, career interests, learning approaches, thinking styles, and personality traits. Contributing to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style