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Gube, Maren; Shore, Bruce M. – Online Submission, 2018
From the 1990s until 2017 the High Ability and Inquiry Research Group (HAIR) at McGill University in Montreal, received C$1.3M in research funds from Canadian, Quebec, and US agencies to support its research and graduate training in education and educational psychology. Their research encompassed two principal areas, Inquiry in Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Objectives, Academic Ability
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Mitchell, Mitzi G.; Montgomery, Hilary; Holder, Michelle; Stuart, Dan – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The cooperative learning strategy of group investigation has been used extensively in elementary and high school classrooms. Whereas this learning strategy seems to benefit low- and middle-achieving students, the performance of high-achieving students seems to change little. This article examines the literature on group investigation as a…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, High Achievement
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Dunn, Rita – Emergency Librarian, 1993
Discusses the findings of multicultural research using the Learning Style Inventory and the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey. Differences in learning style among students and young adults of differing ethnic groups, between male and female students, between high achievers and underachievers, and between the gifted and nongifted are…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences