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Vance, Femi – Youth & Society, 2018
In after-school programs, skill-building is a holistic process by which adolescents--guided by adults--achieve mastery. Developmental theories such as Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model position youth as active learners; however, little is known about the specific actions youth use to enhance their learning during skill-building opportunities.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Skill Development, After School Programs, Learning Processes
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Goral, Despina P.; Bailey, Alison L. – Language Testing, 2019
Students' self-assessment of language features in their oral explanations of a mathematics task was supported by language learning progressions. Learning progressions map a continuum of knowledge or skills development as they increase in sophistication over time. Learning progressions can be a framework to support formative assessment by both…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Skill Development
Aspen Institute, 2019
The promotion of social, emotional, and academic learning is not a shifting educational fad; it is the substance of education itself. It is not a distraction from the "real work" of math and English instruction; it is how instruction can succeed. And it is not another reason for political polarization. It brings together a traditionally…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Cognitive Development, Academic Ability
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Harlow, Danielle Boyd; Leak, Anne Emerson – Computer Science Education, 2014
Recent studies in learning programming have largely focused on high school and college students; less is known about how young children learn to program. From video data of 20 students using a graphical programming interface, we identified ideas that were shared and evolved through an elementary school classroom. In mapping these ideas and their…
Descriptors: Programming, Cooperative Learning, Concept Mapping, Elementary School Science
WILKINSON, ROBERT E. – 1966
A PATTERN OF PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION AMONG STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS AND BETWEEN THE COUNCIL AND ITS FACULTY ADVISORS CONTRIBUTED TO A DECISION TO SUBSTITUTE A PROGRAM OF SENSITIVITY TRAINING FOR THE USUAL STUDENT COUNCIL ORIENTATION PROGRAM. IT WAS HOPED THAT SUCH A PROGRAM WOULD FACILITATE A FLOW OF EXPRESSION AND A REDUCTION OF INTERPERSONAL…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Laboratory Experiments, Learning Processes, Sensitivity Training
Hungerland, Jacklyn E. – 1973
This model instructional system, developed for the office cluster of business occupations but having relevance for other curricula, is an approach to "modernizing" office education. Since there was a need for immediate job relevance of instruction and an integrated career progression, the instructional system is designed to be career-…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Education, Career Planning, Individualized Instruction