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Goffe, William L. – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
Chew and Cerbin (2021) offer a fruitful way of thinking deeply about teaching economics. In this article, the author offers several ideas on how to offload parts of three of the cognitive challenges they identify to an online module that any instructor could assign to their students. Ideally, this module would be described in an economics…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Management, Learning Strategies, Short Term Memory
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Rouet, Jean-Francois – Learning and Instruction, 2009
Designers of interactive learning environments face the issue of managing the learner's cognitive load, reducing irrelevant sources while optimizing useful sources of load. I propose a conceptual framework aimed at organizing the contributions of the papers presented in this special issue. The framework identifies three main dimensions, namely…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Computer Assisted Instruction, Prior Learning, Learning Activities
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Hallden, Ola – Oxford Review of Education, 1986
Argues that pupils' beliefs about what counts as historical explanation, usually the actions--and particularly the motives--of individuals, is an obstacle to their history learning. Superseding this personal level, and getting pupils to analyze a historical event as a whole, is where the mutual understanding between teacher and pupil collapses.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, History Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Brandt, Ron – Educational Leadership, 1990
As codirector of Harvard University's Project Zero, David Perkins has conducted long-term research programs on creativity, problem solving and reasoning, and learning in the arts, sciences, and everyday life. He explains a new program designed to help teachers connect thinking strategies with subject matter, so that students can better manage…
Descriptors: Biographies, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
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Otto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1991
Argues that saying that students have "thinking problems" is hardly a useful diagnostic statement or even a sensible description of flawed cognitive development. Maintains that what is needed to encourage students to think are some sensible models and attractive opportunities to do it in contexts that matter to them. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning Strategies, Models
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Levine, S. Joseph – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
Discussion boards have the unique capacity to support higher-order constructivist learning and the development of a learning community, This chapter provides ten conditions that support the effective use of an online discussion.
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion
Marton, Ference – 1979
An alternative view of learning and an alternative view of research on learning are described in this paper. Learning is seen as a change in the conception of some aspect of reality and it is argued that learning has to be described in terms of its content. This line of research is intended to represent the learner's perspective and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
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Bridges, Betsy – Clearing House, 1986
Examines children's need to develop the following reading skills for application to the area of science: reading formulas, technical science vocabulary, following directions in a lab manual, interpreting diagrams and drawings, and organizing facts into a hypothesis. (JK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Reading Skills
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Miller, Alan – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1987
Reviews research on cognitive styles and offers a model for integrating them into an information processing model of cognition. Maintains that the model will promote further research and practice by offering an efficient way of conceptualizing relationships among cognitive styles and intellectual processes. (BSR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Higher Education
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Schwebel, Milton – Special Services in the Schools, 1986
The introductory article to the special issue on facilitating cognitive development considers individual and social roles in cognitive development, the role of the human mediator, development as an increasingly self regulated process, and types of programs which provide instruction in cognitive strategies. (DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Sharp, James J.; And Others – Higher Education, 1990
A paper by Gow and Kember suggesting that higher education does not promote independent learning and that students' use of deeper cognitive processes diminishes during higher education is criticized for not considering the method, frequency, and perceived importance of evaluation and grading practices more thoroughly. Authors of the original paper…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Role, Grading, Higher Education
Myers, Sheila Taylor; And Others – Nursing and Health Care, 1991
Describes a nursing curriculum based on learning strategies and thinking processes rather than on content. Identifies five critical operations: (1) clinical process; (2) consultation; (3) managerial process; (4) learning; and (5) investigative process. (JOW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Smith, Patricia L. – 1985
Two instructional design alternatives are described and discussed: (1) the supplantation model of Ausburn and Ausburn (1978), where learning strategies are built into the instructional materials; and (2) a generative design model, where strategies are "built" into the learner. These contrasting models are proposed as representing the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Design Requirements, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials
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Reigeluth, Charles M. – 1983
One of the major trends occurring in the area of task analysis methodology is the development of better methods to analyze cognitive tasks, including new methodologies for analyzing the ways in which knowledge should be structured within a student's head to facilitate given types of performance. The most important trend is the integration of task…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Instructional Design, Learning Strategies
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Perez, Samuel A. – Clearing House, 1986
Uses the Socratic method as a point of departure and suggests steps that teachers can take to teach students how to formulate their own questions for better comprehension ability. (JK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Questioning Techniques
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