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Peer reviewedMagolda, Marcia B. Baxter, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume offers an alternative diagnosis of the expectations gap that exists between students and professors. Professors' expectations often go far beyond students' assumptions about the nature of knowledge. It is not what students think but rather how they think that is important in the learning process. How students make meaning mediates how…
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textWeinstein, Claire E.; Mayer, Richard E. – Innovation Abstracts, 1983
Learning strategies can be defined as behaviors and thoughts in which a learner engages and which are intended to influence the learner's encoding process. Thus, the goal of any particular learning strategy may be to affect the way in which the learner selects, acquires, organizes, or integrates new knowledge. Good teaching includes teaching…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Livdahl, Barbara J. – Insights into Open Education, 1991
A common problem for teachers and students is that the teacher's control of the communication in the classroom limits the students' use of their language to learn. Group learning, an alternative to the traditional teacher-led classroom structure, can enhance the students' opportunity to use their language. An understanding of the following three…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1987
The monograph provides an integrative review on the environmental and instructional factors that appear to be most conducive to the complex, interactive, and interdependent process of learning. Ten instructional strategies empirically documented to have a critical impact on a student's ability to learn are discussed in detail. They are: (1) The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
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This group of eight bulletins provides abstracts on research relating to children reported to the Clearinghouse for Research in Child Life from July 1962 to August 1968. Abstracts are organized by topic area: (1) "Long Term Research"; (2) "Growth and Development," including general, physical, perceptual, cognitive, motor,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adjustment (to Environment), Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development
Peer reviewedLomon, Earle L.; And Others – School Science and Mathematics, 1977
The two articles dealing with problem solving and technology in this publication should be useful to those developing the kinds of materials, experiences, and thinking that elementary school industrial arts offers children. The first article accepts problem solving as an educational goal and reports a timely and universally acceptable approach.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Development
