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Krause, Uwe; Béneker, Tine; van Tartwijk, Jan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2022
Tasks are essential in fostering students' learning processes, and thinking skills are considered to be of central importance to learning. In order to analyse how tasks promote the development of thinking skills in school geography, we need an instrument that looks beyond a simple distinction between lower and higher order thinking. It should be…
Descriptors: Geography, Textbooks, Class Activities, Thinking Skills
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Mata, Sara; van Geert, Paul; van der Aalsvoort, Geerdina – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: Studies of Dynamic Assessment of cognitive abilities reveal that young children profit from assistance while carrying out tasks that elicit cognitive effort. Dynamic assessment refers to a test format of a pretest-mediation-posttest in which the mediation phase includes scaffolding to assist the child to grasp the purpose of the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Young Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
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De Groot, Bartholomeus J. A.; Van den Bos, Kees P.; Van der Meulen, Bieuwe F.; Minnaert, Alexander E. M. G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The objective of this study was to assess and compare the predictive values of group membership for rapid automatized naming (RAN) and phonemic awareness (PA) in Dutch school children with and without reading disabilities (RD) or specific language impairment (SLI). Method: A composite word reading index and a formal SLI diagnosis were…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Naming, Cognitive Processes, Phonemic Awareness
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Davidson, Douglas J.; Indefrey, Peter – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
Based on recent findings showing electrophysiological changes in adult language learners after relatively short periods of training, we hypothesized that adult Dutch learners of German would show responses to German gender and adjective declension violations after brief instruction. Adjective declension in German differs from previously studied…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Classification
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers