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Impact of a Brief Ego Depletion Procedure on Creative Behaviour in the Upper Primary Classroom
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Price, Deborah Ann; Yates, Gregory C. R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
In the course of normal classroom lessons, 103 students (median 11.10 years) were asked to spend 15 min writing "anything you can think of" about the number 50 on a blank page. The products were independently scored by 2 specialist art teachers and 2 specialist mathematics teachers on criteria relevant to their specialisations.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Writing Assignments, Creative Writing, Art Teachers
Second-Year Pre-Service Teachers' Responses to Proportional Reasoning Test Items
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Livy, Sharyn; Herbert, Sandra – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
A recent international study of pre-service teachers identified that proportional reasoning was problematic for pre-service teachers. Proportional reasoning is an important topic in the middle years of schooling and therefore it is critical that teachers understand this topic and can rely on their Mathematical Content Knowledge (MCK) when…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Difficulty Level, Test Items
Why Goal-Free Problems Can Facilitate Learning.
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Ayres, Paul L. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1993
An experiment with 67 Australian junior high school students demonstrates that presentation of goal-free 2-move mathematics problems, reducing the use of means-ends analysis, prevents the stage effect (increase in errors at the subgoal stage) from occurring. Implications for enhancing learning are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools