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Mumthas, N. S.; Blessytha, Anwar – Online Submission, 2009
To be a great teacher, more than content knowledge, teacher also needs practical and technical knowledge that contribute to teacher effectiveness. A teacher with high tacit knowledge is usually considered an expert teacher. The purpose of this study is to find out whether teachers with high tacit knowledge give equal preference to the various…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Stimulation, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Frost, Susan – 1989
This paper explores the relationship of developmental advising and frequency of faculty-student contact to college students' cognitive growth. The study involved freshmen at two metropolitan Atlanta (Georgia) women's colleges: Agnes Scott College and Brenau College. Brenau freshmen participate in a two-quarter seminar which includes academic…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Cognitive Development, Correlation, Developmental Programs

Gardner, Howard – Journal of Moral Education, 1991
Traces the relationship between human development and education through various philosophies. Explores differences in early forms of understanding, the goals of education, and the kinds of knowledge that specific fields require. Encourages a form of apprenticeship to provide students with a model for bridging the gap between scholastic and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Hettich, Paul – 1998
The "epistemological reflection model" of Marcia Baxter Magolda is reviewed, and the implications of her work for the education of college students are considered. Four levels of knowing are postulated by Baxter Magolda; these are "Absolute" knowing, "Transitional" knowing, "Independent" knowing, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, College Graduates, College Students
Vermetten, Yvonne; And Others – 1997
This longitudinal study examined the question of change and stability in students' used learning strategies during the first 2 years of study at the university. A total of 188 students from Tilburg University in the Netherlands took part in the study, including 90 in law, 27 in art, 48 in economics, and 23 in the social sciences. The students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Terenzini, Patrick T.; Yaeger, Patricia M.; Bohr, Louise; Pascarella, Ernest T.; Amaury, Nora – 1997
This study examined whether African-American students who attend historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have different experiences and perceive the campus climate differently than African American students who attend predominantly white institutions (PWIs). The study also examined whether differences in experiences and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Cognitive Development, College Freshmen
Colardyn, Danielle; White, Kathleen M. – 1985
Transitional situations, such as those experienced by work study students, may create cognitive difficulties by requiring people to simultaneously use both a learning and a use logic. To examine this phenomenon, a problem solving task (electrical schemata of a washing machine) was administered to 43 full time students and 51 work study students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Logical Thinking
Sharpham, John – 1981
Expressing the imagination dramatically is a step toward refining and shaping thought and behavior. Imagination is a part of the complex interaction of thought and action and has a place in the knowledge base. Drama is a direct expression of the imagination in action. In drama, the thought--the imaginings--are expressed in action and that action…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creative Dramatics, Creativity, Drama
Kroll, Barry M. – 1979
The cognitive/developmental theories of Jean Piaget and John Dewey assert that people learn by doing and that they grow intellectually by tackling demanding problems. It is this active, problem-solving orientation that is central to a cognitive/developmental approach to composition teaching. Six core principles can serve as guides for composition…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Principles, English Instruction, Guidelines
Hettich, Paul – 1997
Seldom are college students introduced to theories that describe how they and other students change intellectually during their college years. Two epistemological perspectives on cognitive development in college students and how they can be presented to students are examined in this paper. The first perspective is William Perry's forms of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Epistemology
Borchardt, Donald A. – 1991
Ego development is an implicit aim of higher education and can be one of its most significant results, according to R. P. Weathersby. There are several developmental stages, each having characteristics to describe personality traits, style of behavior, conscious preoccupations, and ways of thinking. From lowest level to highest, the stages are:…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Guided Design, Higher Education
Senne, Terry A.; Rikard, G. Linda – 2003
The objectives of this paper are: to briefly describe how teaching portfolios, in tandem with the Teaching/Learning Framework (Sprinthall & Thies-Sprinthall, 1983) can be employed as a developmental intervention to promote stage growth in teacher candidates; to report developmental stage change (moral judgment/principled thinking) results from…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Renn, Kristen A. – 1999
This study examined how campus peer culture influences the ways in which multiracial students make meaning of their racial identity, and applies Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological model of cognitive development to analyze elements in the college environment that stimulate or inhibit identity development. Discussion of the situation of multiracial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Diversity (Student), Ethnicity
Cabrera, Alberto F.; Nora, Amaury; Bernal, Elena M.; Terenzini, Patrick T.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – 1998
This study examined possible solutions to the paradox faced by college administrators as they try to increase diversity in the student body while minimizing tensions. The study used 1994 data on 2,050 second-year college students from the National Study of Student Learning, a longitudinal investigation of factors influencing student learning and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Diversity (Student), Emotional Development
Wadsworth, Barry – 1992
The potential for the coherent integration of the cognitive and affective aspects of student development through a constructivist approach is discussed in this paper. Educators should be concerned with students' learning with regard to developing values and characteristics, especially respect and responsibility. The obstacles that hinder the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning)