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Guntay Tasci; Halil Yurdugul – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
This research applied the learning strategies to predict in an effect longitudinal growth of cognitive structure of students in biology. The aim of the research is to assess the effect of activating learning strategies on cognitive structures regarding biology. The research was conducted by using control group design. The sample of research was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Development, Program Effectiveness, Biology
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Ruggeri, Azzurra; Lombrozo, Tania; Griffiths, Thomas L.; Xu, Fei – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Children are active learners: they learn not only from the information people offer and the evidence they happen to observe, but by actively seeking information. However, children's information search strategies are typically less efficient than those of adults. In two studies, we isolate potential sources of developmental change in how children…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Structures
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Parker, Jan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
It is urgent that we re-examine models of knowledge and knowledge-making within the university, at this time of open learning and deregulated multi-million dollar and euro open science hubs and portals. For otherwise, we are bound into "crude" instrumentalism, "delivering" "knowledge packets" rather than seeing our…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development