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Lynn Santelmann – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Introduction: Psycholinguistics presents a challenge to teaching and learning because of the many abstract models in the field. Language-related games provide a vehicle for students to ground and demonstrate their understanding of these models. Statement of the problem: Models in psycholinguistics are challenging to teach and learn because they…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Games, Game Based Learning, Concept Formation
Erika Kerruish – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Critical thinking is embedded in national university graduate outcomes and included in international bodies' statements on higher education. At the same time, there are tensions surrounding critical thinking in higher education, such as its commodification, Eurocentrism, and relationship to rapidly digitalising cultures. Drawing from the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Wilfred Carr – Routledge Research in Education, 2025
This concise, digestible book shows how the cultivation of reason became the defining aim of western education, and critiques how this aim has been eclipsed in recent decades by the neoliberal system of mass schooling imposed by the state. Chapters outline succinctly the history of western education and its origins in Ancient Greece, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Educational Practices, Abstract Reasoning, Educational History
Karen Singer-Freeman – Assessment Update, 2024
A common feature of many assessment plans is the use of multiple-choice questions. Although there are criticisms of multiple-choice questions, this assessment format is here to stay--multiple-choice questions are effective means of evaluation in large classes, central to many licensing and entry exams, used in most adaptive learning platforms, and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Evaluation, Learning Processes
Michella Basas – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This Family and Practitioner Brief discusses how deaf children who have not had access to a complete language from birth often encounter unique challenges in developing academic language skills, particularly in the realm of inference-making.
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Inferences, Children
Awais Malik; Bärbel Fürstenau – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2024
Financial literacy is crucial for making sound financial decisions and living a better life. However, the field of finance is full of abstract concepts, such as inflation, liquidity, asset allocation and credit. Abstract concepts may be harder to comprehend than concrete concepts due to their lack of tangible referents in the physical world. In…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Financial Literacy, Schemata (Cognition), Figurative Language
Luke T. Reinke; Michelle L. Stephan; Jerold R. Griggs – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Many teachers use problems set in real or imaginary contexts to make mathematics engaging, but these problems can also be used to anchor conceptual understanding. By constructing an understanding of mathematical ideas through solving problems in contexts that make sense to students, they have a better chance of actually understanding those…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Mathematical Concepts