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Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Marks, Rachel; Brown, Margaret – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This document presents a review of evidence commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation to inform the guidance document "Improving Mathematics in Key Stages Two and Three" (Education Endowment Foundation, 2017). The review draws on a substantial parallel study by the same research team, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills, Feedback (Response)
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Shaughnessey, J. Michael – Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Presents research findings related to students' intuitive ideas about the concepts of chance to inform teachers how students form their concepts of probability and statistics. Discusses adolescents' conceptions of uncertainty, judgmental heuristics in making estimates of event likelihood, the conjunction fallacy, the outcome approach, attempts to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Learning Activities
Swinson, Kevan – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 1992
Reviews research of writing activities that help identify student misconceptions and serve as a vehicle for knowledge construction. (29 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lynch, Douglas J.; McKenna, Michael C. – Social Education, 1990
Discusses recent research in cognitive psychology that identifies how students are likely to respond when controversial issues are included in course content. Points out that controversial material may lead to misunderstandings and forgetting. Provides teaching ideas to enhance student learning and remembering, to deal with emotions, and to foster…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Controversial Issues (Course Content)