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Loehr, Abbey M.; Fazio, Lisa K.; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Committing errors is a common part of the learning process, and adults are more likely to correct errors that they can recall. However, preadolescent children's recall of previous errors (i.e., memory for errors) may be limited. Aims: We examined children's ability to recall their past errors and tested whether recalling an error aids…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Recall (Psychology), Error Patterns, Error Correction
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Zia Tajeddin; Ali Malmir – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Learners' acquisition of pragmatic competence in additional languages has received mounting attention since the 1990s. However, although studies on general learning strategies have proliferated since Oxford's (1990) influential inventory was published, studies on pragmatic-specific learning strategies contributing to the acquisition of this…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Ugur, Fidan – International Education Studies, 2019
This study analyzes the activities in the Turkish student workbooks in the framework of secondary school level Turkish courses based on the literature of "memory, information processing process, memory-learning relationship and the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy." It seeks to determine which activities are associated with which type of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Workbooks, Memory
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Moreira, Paulo A. S.; Inman, Richard Anthony; Rosa, Inês; Cloninger, Kevin; Duarte, António; Robert Cloninger, C. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Personality results from the complex interactions among multiple learning and memory systems. There is a need to examine the personality-learning association using a personality model that captures this complexity: Cloninger's psychobiological model. The study addresses this need using a person-centered approach. In total, 686 adolescents…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Biology, Adolescents
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Elouaf, Leila; Lotf, Said; Talbi, Mohammed – Education Sciences, 2021
We endeavor through this work to demonstrate the effects of the introduction of neuroeducation data in schools and their application, via an experiment of neuropedagogical methods, to respond to the hypothesis that the contribution of neuroeducation may be beneficial for learning. During this study we designed four neuropedagogical methods and to…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Teaching Methods, Psychoeducational Methods, Scores
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Fordham, Michael – Teaching History, 2017
What, exactly, is learned knowledge? And why does it matter in history teaching? Does it matter? Michael Fordham seeks to use the general tenets of cognitive psychology to inform the debate about how history teachers might get the best from their students, in particular in considering the role of memory. Fordham surveys the latest research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, History Instruction, Reading Lists, Memory
Cutumisu, Maria; Schwartz, Daniel L. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
This paper presents a novel examination of the impact of students' feedback choices and performance on their feedback memory. An empirical study was designed to collect the choices to seek critical feedback from a hundred and six Grade 8 middle-school students via Posterlet, a digital assessment game in which students design posters. Upon…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Public Schools, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
Hendy, Mohamed H. – Online Submission, 2016
Educational research and practice have proven that there are many benefits for applying learning theories' recommendations through teaching and learning of different subjects in all school levels. Based on interrelationships among learning theories of contextualism, connectivism, constructivism, and cognitivism, the researcher proposed an…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Theories, Models, Instructional Effectiveness
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Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis Petros – Research in Science Education, 2012
This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the role of wonder in the learning process. The study was carried out by a 9th grade science teacher in collaboration with a university professor. The teacher taught two classrooms of 27 and 30 students respectively, by trying to evoke a sense of wonder only in one of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Science Teachers, Grade 9, Science Instruction
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Musa, Sajid; Ziatdinov, Rushan; Sozcu, Omer Faruk; Griffiths, Carol – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2015
Computer animation in the past decade has become one of the most noticeable features of technology-based learning environments. By its definition, it refers to simulated motion pictures showing movement of drawn objects, and is often defined as the art in movement. Its educational application known as educational computer animation is considered…
Descriptors: Animation, Personality Traits, Computer Graphics, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Goldberg, Tsafrir; Schwarz, Baruch B.; Porat, Dan – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This article investigates the effect of the vitality of historical issues in collective memory on students' history learning processes and products. Forty 12th grade students of different ethnic background participated in two historical problem-solving learning tasks. The historical issues were found to differ in their vitality in collective…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Memory, Learning Processes, Grade 12
Reif, Frederick – MIT Press (BK), 2008
Many students find it difficult to learn the kinds of knowledge and thinking required by college or high school courses in mathematics, science, or other complex domains. Thus they often emerge with significant misconceptions, fragmented knowledge, and inadequate problem-solving skills. Most instructors or textbook authors approach their teaching…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Quality Control, Problem Solving, Scientific Concepts