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Amy Chen Kulesa; Marisa Mission; Michelle Croft; Mary K. Wells – Bellwether, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a tool that promises efficiency and customization for teachers and students alike but also carries risks of dependency and detachment. This report aims to explore new questions for educators, system leaders, and tool developers such as how much cognitive effort AI should alleviate, how much it should…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Change, Cognitive Processes
Hess, J. D. – College Board Review, 1987
A graduate of a course in history's great ideas and the processes of thinking about them encourages the development of similar courses, arguing that important aspects of intellectual development are being ignored in the current college curriculum. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Higher Education

Perkins, D. N. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Sifts through confusing intelligence theories, arguing that intelligence is a combination of influences involving power, tactics, and content. Good thinking is an unnatural act demanding evenhanded reasoning, problem finding (versus solving), and knowledge as invention. Discusses thinking frames guiding thought processes and the implications for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Intelligence

Papell, Catherine P.; Skolnik, Louise – Journal of Social Work Education, 1992
A discussion of the role of reflective thinking in the social work professional's training and practice looks at theories on the relationship of reflection and skilled action and at contemporary social work theories. It is suggested that Donald Schon's reflection-in-action model has applications in social work education and practice. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo, Critical Thinking, Higher Education

Stevens, Ronald H. – Academic Medicine, 1991
Computer-based problem-solving examinations in immunology generate graphic representations of students' search paths, allowing evaluation of how organized and focused their knowledge is, how well their organization relates to critical concepts in immunology, where major misconceptions exist, and whether proper knowledge links exist between content…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education
Feinstein, Mark; Stillings, Neil – 1987
Cognitive science has recently emerged as a new interdisciplinary field incorporating parts of psychology, computer science, philosophy, neuroscience, and linguistics. Its goal is to bring the theoretical and methodological resources of the contributing disciplines to bear on an integrated investigation of thought, meaning, language, perception,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, Correlation, Higher Education

Sigel, Irving E. – Educational Leadership, 1984
Discusses the development of the thinking function and factors influencing that development, and presents strategies for teaching thinking. (MD)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences

McTighe, Jay; Lyman, Frank T., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1988
Thinking tools bring sound instructional theory into the classroom in a practical form that students and teachers both enjoy using. Six such tools are described that have the general characteristics of psychological validity, concreteness, relevance to teachers, and differentiation by type of learning. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
Della Neve, Charmaine; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Explains the merits of "brain-compatible" learning, especially Proster Theory. Describes a pilot program at a New Jersey elementary school that transformed conventional, graded classrooms into "multi-teacher interactive learning units" that promote thinking in terms of programs and patterns. Summarizes pedagogical changes and…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education

Brown, Edward; Chignell, Mark H. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1993
A pedagogical model of hypertext authoring is presented. The model encourages self-regulated, constructive thinking to create knowledge by manipulating corresponding screen representations. One application of the design-oriented model is described, with screen illustrations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Educational Media
Wilkins, Wendy – 1987
Linguistics, as one of the cognitive sciences, has much to offer the teaching of basic science, i.e., the teaching of how to ask and investigate interesting questions. Linguistics is particularly well-suited for teaching about the process of "doing" science because the methodology appropriate to the study of language from a generative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, Correlation, Grammar

Lee, Kiong-Hock – Economics of Education Review, 1986
Compares public and private sector recruitment behavior in Malaysia, focusing on employers' perspectives of higher education's functions. The public sector values academic records, whereas private industry seeks workers with experience and good affective skills. Both sectors want universities to produce graduates with problem-solving abilities.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Employer Attitudes, Employers

Gall, Meredith – Educational Leadership, 1984
Reseach on use of questioning in classroom teaching reveals that recitation is a poor method, but teachers use it anyway because it is effective in teaching curriculum that is largely textbook based. Teacher educators may be advised to help teachers learn to use recitation well. (MD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Norris, Cynthia J.; Achilles, C. M. – Planning and Changing, 1988
Identifies a new source of leadership style--intuitive leadership. Discusses how an intuitive style may fit into the scheme of education leadership-training; reviews literature on intuitive leadership styles; and suggests procedures by which higher educational personnel can employ and encourage the use of intuition as part of the decision-making…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Creative Thinking
Brandt, Ronald S.; And Others – 1988
This monograph presents commentaries on the book "Dimensions of Thinking: A Framework for Curriculum and Instruction" (which organizes research and theory from several sources into a framework for teaching thinking), by four of its seven authors. The four articles are as follows: "The Development of 'Dimensions of Thinking'"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development