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D'Eon, Marcel; Yasinian, Maryam – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
In this article, we propose a new model of student workload. We conducted an extensive literature review of student workload, its impact on students' lives, factors influencing student workload, objective and subjective measurements. The previous conceptualizations of student workload conflate student work and course workload, two related but…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Learning Processes, Barriers
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Masci, Frank – Middle School Journal (J3), 2008
Time on task, with its twin elements of purposeful use of "time" and rededication to ensuring the quality of the "task," presents educators at all levels with the opportunity to effect change through relatively straightforward means. The purpose of this article is to highlight several aspects of using time effectively through a series of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Instructional Materials, Time on Task, Individualized Instruction
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Brown, Laurinda; Reid, David A. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
We describe the "somatic marker hypothesis" proposed by Damasio (1996) to account for the ability of most people to make decisions quickly and continually in the course of their lives. We relate this hypothesis to two other theoretical constructs, emotional orientations and purposes, which we have used in our research on students' reasoning and…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Activities, Emotional Intelligence