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Ruiz-Martín, Héctor; Bybee, Rodger W. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Over 34 years since its conception, research in educational settings has found evidence for the effectiveness of the 5E Instructional Model. Indeed, several studies have reported evidence of a better conceptual understanding of scientific ideas and models, positive effects on general achievement in science, and positive attitudes toward science.…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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Reese, Simon – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of the development of learning organization concepts from the perspective of Dr. Peter Senge and presents an interesting evolution of his systems oriented view of the learning organization field over three decades. Design/methodology/approach: Through a conversation with a thought leading scholar,…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Systems Approach, Group Dynamics, Learning Theories
Willingham, Daniel T. – American Educator, 2019
There's no doubt that research bearing directly on classroom practice is crucial. In this article Daniel Willingham maintains that it's useful for educators also to know the basic science around children's cognition, emotion, and motivation, because beliefs about what children are like inevitably influence teaching practice. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Learning Processes, Children, Educational Practices
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Wiliam, Dylan – Psychology of Education Review, 2019
In this "Open Dialogue: Peer Response," the author notes that in the initial paper, "Contributions of Educational Psychology to Understanding Student Learning: What Has Been Discovered - What More Could Be Done?" Entwistle lays out a useful summary of the way that psychology has contributed to an understanding of student…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Learning Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories
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Duff, Patricia A. – Modern Language Journal, 2017
The majority of recent research on language learning motivation has reportedly focused on English as a target language, typically in relatively homogeneous, secondary and postsecondary "foreign language" settings. How applicable, then, are the theories and findings undergirding that research to our understanding of the contemporary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Learning Theories
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Cranton, Patricia; Kasl, Elizabeth – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
This article presents the authors' response to Michael Newman's "Calling Transformative Learning into Question: Some Mutinous Thoughts". The authors begin by noting their appreciation of Michael Newman's challenge to transformative learning theory. In their response, the authors review and comment on the fatal flaws presented by Newman and then…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Adult Education, Problems
Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali Salmani – Online Submission, 2012
This paper claims that the current theories of Self-regulated learning (SRL) are short-sighted. The author provides a comprehensive, but brief, overview of SRL which addresses such issues as (a) SRL processes, (b) SRL strategies, (c) compartments of SRL, (d) theories of SRL, (e) agency in SRL, and (f) models of SRL. He then presents a new model…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Models, Educational Theories, Learning Processes
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Baker, Marshall A.; Robinson, J. Shane; Kolb, David A. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2012
Experiential learning has been a foundational tenant of agricultural education since its inception. However, the theory of experiential education has received limited attention in the permanent agricultural education literature base. As such, this philosophical manuscript examined Kolb's experiential learning process further, and considered the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Agricultural Education, Learning Theories, Models
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Dunne, Timothy T. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The notion of the road map, advocated by Black, Wilson, and Yao (2011), and the associated minutiae of the construct map have several powerful features. At one level these notions assist the teacher to select and embody a suitable sequence of constructs within a specified curriculum. Whatever disparate sequenced pathways individual learners may…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Concept Mapping, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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Chinn, Pauline W. U. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Maria Andree focuses on an immigrant student whose error in a laboratory activity leads to a novel, colorful outcome that she excitedly shares with peers. After engaging in class activities for a few weeks she returns to her earlier dislike of science, saying: "I hate science, particularly Chemistry." The classroom activity system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism, Learning Theories
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Margolis, Eric; Laurence, Stephen – Cognition, 2008
Theories of number concepts often suppose that the natural numbers are acquired as children learn to count and as they draw an induction based on their interpretation of the first few count words. In a bold critique of this general approach, Rips, Asmuth, Bloomfield [Rips, L., Asmuth, J. & Bloomfield, A. (2006). Giving the boot to the bootstrap:…
Descriptors: Numbers, Learning Strategies, Number Concepts, Inferences
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Wisker, Gina; Robinson, Gillian – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
Much research into postgraduate student learning focuses on generic issues of research development. Early work, reported here, uses threshold concept theories and theories of conceptual threshold crossing to focus on the learning and supervisory support of postgraduates researching in the fields of literature and art. This paper is based on…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Learning Processes, Literature
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Kang, Dae Joong – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2007
Although the loss of certainty in the age of postmodernism is questioning knowledge production in general, the emerging discourse of lifelong learning demands a different theory of adult learning in particular. This article aims to offer a conceptual tool for describing learning in adulthood in terms of postmodern and lifelong learning conditions.…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Postmodernism
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Levykh, Michael G. – Educational Theory, 2008
Many recent articles, research papers, and conference presentations about Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) emphasize the "extended" version of the ZPD that reflects human emotions and desires. In this essay, Michael G. Levykh expands on the extant literature on the ZPD through developing several new ideas. First, he maintains that…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Theories, Affective Behavior, Emotional Development
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Purdy, Noel; Morrison, Hugh – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This paper critically examines the application of research into cognitive neuroscience to educational contexts. It first considers recent warnings from within the neuroscientific community itself about the limitations of current neuroscientific knowledge and the urgent need to dispel popular "neuromyths" which have become accepted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Brain, Research Utilization, Scientific Research
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