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Holly A. White; Lauren Highfill; Lily C. Johnston; Aravinda Kalimi – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Attentiveness during class is critical for learning. Teachers have strategies to promote active engagement and active learning, yet little control over students' baseline level of alertness and focus upon arriving to class. Objective: To evaluate the effect of pre-lecture cognitive exercise on attention and learning in lectures.…
Descriptors: Attention, Lecture Method, Program Effectiveness, Cognitive Development
Aaron Weinberg; Douglas L. Corey; Michael Tallman; Steven R. Jones; Jason Martin – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2024
The concept of intellectual need, which proposes that learning is the result of students wrestling with a problem that is unsolvable by their current knowledge, has been used in instructional design for many years. However, prior research has not described a way to empirically determine whether, and to what extent, students experience intellectual…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Cognitive Development, Needs Assessment, Calculus
Zohar, Anat – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine what learning capabilities and ways of learning may be possible for women in their third age. The study addresses cognitive aspects of real-life learning of older women who are experienced learners. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 women aged between 60 and 81 who hold either a PhD or a MA.…
Descriptors: Females, Older Adults, Masters Degrees, Doctoral Degrees
Qiongli Zhu; Sarfaroz Niyozov – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article presents a case study of an online course that cross-pollinated Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and dialogic teaching to facilitate deep learning. Conceptualized through the UDL framework, dialogue and dialogic teaching, and deep learning, our analysis employs the methods of design-based research and thematic analysis to unpack…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Access to Education, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education
Rakison, David H.; Smith, Gabriel Tobin; Ali, Areej – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Four experiments investigated infants' and adults' knowledge of the identity of objects in a causal sequence of events. In Experiments 1 and 2, 18- and 22-month-olds in the visual habituation procedure were shown a 3-step causal chain event in which the relation between an object's part (dynamic or static) and its causal role was either consistent…
Descriptors: Infants, Learning, Identification, Adults
Callanan, Maureen A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
Increasingly, cognitive developmental researchers are forming partnerships with museums as a way to achieve both overlapping and distinctive goals. Such partnerships can further our understanding of cognitive development by providing opportunities to study children's learning within social contexts. At the same time, these collaborations can…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Museums, Researchers, Cognitive Development
Easton, Eric; Gilburn, Andre – Journal of Biological Education, 2012
Field work and field courses within undergraduate biology degrees have been under threat in recent years for multiple reasons and while there has been widespread support from learned societies, academic staff and students for the retention of field study, there has been little research to support the perceived value of field teaching within this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Field Instruction, Biology, Foreign Countries
Gregorius, Roberto – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
A comparison was made between students' overall performance, as measured by overall grade, in different teaching and learning protocols: (1) traditional textbook and lecture along with standard examinations; (2) lectures with online augmentation and PowerPoint lecture notes along with standard examinations; (3) similar to "(2)" but with…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Tests, Lecture Method, Cognitive Development
Long, Nicole Natasha – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore effects of faculty and student affairs staff roles within living-learning programs (LLPs) on perceptions of growth in critical thinking/analysis abilities, cognitive complexity, and liberal learning among LLP participants. This study used two data sources from the National Study of Living-Learning Programs…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Personnel Workers, Role, Critical Thinking
Arum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa – Social Science Research Council, 2008
This research emerged from the Social Science Research Council's collaborative partnership with the Pathways for College Network, with technical assistance in data collection provided by the Council for Aid to Education. The project has followed over 2,300 students at 24 institutions over time to examine what factors are associated with learning…
Descriptors: Learning, Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Logical Thinking
Martin, Taylor; Petrosino, Anthony J.; Rivale, Stephanie; Diller, Kenneth R. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
This chapter describes a model for continuous development of adaptive expertise, including growth along the dimensions of innovation and knowledge, examined in the context of a biotransport course in biomedical engineering. Students improved on both knowledge and innovation, moving along a continuum toward adaptive expertise. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Adjustment (to Environment), Experience, Models
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Silva, Liliana, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 26 to 28 of April. Our efforts and active engagement can now be rewarded with these three days of exciting new developments about what we are passionate about: Psychology and its connections. We take pride…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychoeducational Methods, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes