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Boudah, Daniel J.; O'Neill, Kevin J. – 1999
This digest discusses what research says about learning strategies and how teachers can teach learning strategies. A learning strategy is defined as an individual's way of reorganizing and using a particular set of skills in order to learn content or accomplish other tasks more effectively and efficiently in school and nonacademic settings.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Lazere, Donald – 1987
Noting that college-level critical thinking instruction is now an interdisciplinary movement coordinating such fields as English, rhetoric, philosophy, and developmental psychology, this digest surveys the history of critical thinking studies in these converging disciplines and argues that literature study preeminently encompasses the mental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, College English, Critical Thinking