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Alex Quigley – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
It is a truth universally acknowledged that pupils do not learn all that they are taught. They may learn something, they may even learn a lot, but it may not be a lot of what we think we have taught them or they may struggle to apply knowledge successfully. In this book, bestselling author Alex Quigley characterises how the long and winding road…
Descriptors: Learning, Success, Failure, Memory
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Margaret Lee – Learning Professional, 2025
In this article, the author describes learning principles that are grounded in Daniel Willingham's (2017) simple model of the mind and suggest professional learning strategies aligned with them. These strategies are consistent with the Learning Designs standard of the Standards for Professional Learning, which states, in part, "Educators use…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Instructional Design, Cognitive Science, Standards
Sundar, Kripa – American Educator, 2020
This article describes "seductive details" as attention-grabbing, irrelevant pieces of information. They can be words, illustrations, photographs, animations, narrations, videos, or sounds. Studying the effects of seductive details is a growing area of research--but it is far enough along to merit teachers' interest: there are over 20…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Attention, Attention Control, Student Interests
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Christopher Hanley; David Cooper; Jennifer Rowntree – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
The first part of this article considers the challenge of supporting pupils to write creatively about the natural world. It examines a text by a gifted young writer: "Diary of a Young Naturalist" by Dara McAnulty. It asks what the challenges might be for pupils who may be motivated to model their writing on McAnulty's, but have limited…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Academically Gifted, Barriers, Natural Resources
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Li, Lu; Gow, Andrew Douglas Isherwood; Zhou, Jiaxian – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Humans are inherently emotional creatures due to our social nature, and emotions are able to influence how well we learn and even affect academic outcomes. Emotions are rarely a chief concern in educational settings, and we will discuss the mechanisms underlying how emotions are processed in the brain and how they influence the key aspects of…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Neurosciences, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes
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Wyble, Brad; Chen, Hui – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Attribute amnesia is a phenomenon in which information about a stimulus that was just recently used to perform a task is poorly remembered in a surprise test (Chen & Wyble, 2015a). In a recent article by Jiang, Shupe, Swallow, and Tan (2016), this effect was replicated but with an additional priming measure that revealed some carryover memory…
Descriptors: Memory, Attention, Priming, Short Term Memory
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Norris, Nola G. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2023
This paper reports on a framework of thinking, memory and learning that emerged from a qualitative research study into the nature of learning for individuals with autism. The framework is useful for professional development of teachers regarding the learning characteristics of neurodiverse students with autism spectrum disorder. The paper provides…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Christianity, Religious Schools
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Cheke, Lucy G. – Learning & Memory, 2016
Older adults exhibit disproportionate impairments in memory for item-associations. These impairments may stem from an inability to self-initiate deep encoding strategies. The present study investigates this using the "treasure-hunt task"; a what-where-when style episodic memory test that requires individuals to "hide" items…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Memory, Cognitive Processes, Older Adults
Silva, Paloma N.; Maricle, Denise E. – Communique, 2021
Spina bifida (SB) refers to a subgroup of congenital defects where the neural tube fails to fuse, often resulting in a protruding spinal cord. This is often due to a defect or absence of vertebral arches resulting from a failure of the mesoderm to organize over the region of the defect. SB occurs during gestation between the third and sixth week…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Students with Disabilities, School Psychologists, Role
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de la Guía, Elena; Lozano, María D.; Penichet, Víctor M. R. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience behavioural and learning problems at home and at school, as well as a lack of self-control in their lives. We can take advantage of the evolution of new technologies to develop applications with the aim of enhancing and stimulating the learning process of children with ADHD.…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Processes, Educational Games, Computer Games
McMahan, Amy; Maricle, Denise E. – Communique, 2020
Epilepsy represents a common neuropsychological disorder in children, which presents a myriad of cognitive, neuropsychological, social, emotional, behavioral, and learning problems. School psychologists are in a unique position to provide psychoeducation, assessment, intervention, and general supports for students with epilepsy and their families.…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Special Needs Students, School Psychologists, Role
Brown, Thomas E. – Educational Leadership, 2015
The image of the student with ADHD as Dennis the Menace is an outdated stereotype. Some students with ADHD are restless and disruptive, notes the author, but many others who suffer from this disorder are quieter, more distracted and more passive, and not productive or consistent in their work. Thomas E. Brown, a well-known expert on ADHD, shares a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Misconceptions, Reading Skills
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Jarosz, Karolina – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2016
The author explores the interdisciplinary use of music in teaching English as a foreign language to children in the context of function, genre, character and expression, trying to decipher the role and influence of music on various contexts of language learning, such as memory and concentration span, and takes under consideration a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Garland, Eric L.; Howard, Matthew O. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Classification of Diseases classify mental health disorders on the basis of their putatively distinct symptom profiles. Although these nosologies are highly influential, they also have been derided as mere "field guides" because they focus solely on the…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Classification, Social Work, Caseworkers
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Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Chang, Mido; Evans, Michael E. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013
Children's and adolescents' cognitive, affective, and behavioral states of engagement enhance or impede enjoyment of, and performance with, educational games. We propose a comprehensive model of engagement states and apply it to research on educational game development and research on the role of various aspects of engagement on game play and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Children
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