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Download full textAndrew E. Parzyck – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This study explores how first-year seminar (FYS) instructors at four-year institutions in New England create meaningful adult learning environments for traditional-aged college students and apply adult learning principles. The research examines classroom practices and teaching philosophies using qualitative methods grounded in andragogy and…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Adult Learning, Educational Principles, Classroom Techniques
Hense, Jan; Mandl, Heinz – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This conceptual paper aims to clarify the theoretical underpinnings of game based learning (GBL) and learning with digital learning games (DLGs). To do so, it analyses learning of game related skills and contents, which occurs constantly during playing conventional entertainment games, from three perspectives: learning theory, emotion theory, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Electronic Publishing, Feedback (Response)
Ferguson, Eva Dreikurs – 1981
Investigators assessing the effect of motivation on performance rarely report the effect of performance on motivation. College students (N=48), preselected by anxiety scores, were tested on adjective pairs lists; additionally, anxiety was measured before and after task performance. Results showed that anxiety had a marked effect on verbal learning…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Higher Education, Influences, Interaction
Safuanov, Ildar S. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
In this theoretical essay the psychological aspects of genetic approach to teaching mathematics (mainly at universities) are discussed. Analysis of the history and modern state of genetic teaching shows that its psychological aspects may be explained using both Vygotskian and Piagetian frameworks. Experience of practice of mathematical education…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Genetics, Mathematics Instruction, Higher Education
Menges, Robert J. – 1980
The theory of "reasoned action" is applied to the teaching-learning process. This theory asserts that people use the information available to them in a reasonable manner to arrive at their decisions and that a person's behavior follows logically and systematically from whatever information he has available. To illustrate application of the theory…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Decision Making, Individual Power, Intentional Learning
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1976
A return to basic inductive research methods is recommended. Specifically, the scientific method of "strong inference" ought to be applied in attempts to prove hypotheses concerning the relationship that may exist between attitude variables and the learning of a second or foreign language. These hypotheses, drawn from the literature and discussed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Attitudes, Individual Characteristics
