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Hart, Chelsie M.; Mills, Caitlin; Thiemann, Raela F.; Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R.; Tomfohr-Madsen, Lianne; Kam, Julia W. Y. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) are frequent distractions from our everyday tasks, which can reduce productivity and safety during task performance. This necessitates the examination of factors that modulate TUT occurrence in daily life. One factor that has previously been implicated as a source of TUT is personally salient concerns. External…
Descriptors: News Media, COVID-19, Pandemics, Cognitive Processes
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Du, Xu; Dai, Miao; Tang, Hengtao; Hung, Jui-Long; Li, Hao; Zheng, Jinqiu – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2023
Distance education programs have become the preferred option for most higher education institutions to continue teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the effectiveness of some online courses, especially those engineering courses with experimentation activities, remains disputed. The main challenge is fostering collaborative problem solving…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperation, Participative Decision Making, Problem Solving
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Ahmed Nawaz Hakro; Priya Mathew – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2020
Purpose: Universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly recognizing the value of coaching for professional and organizational development. This study is designed to investigate whether Cognitive Coaching, implemented as a programme in an HEI in Oman, made any difference to the behaviour and attitudes of employees holding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance), Mentors, Faculty Development
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Zhang, Limei; Goh, Christine C. M.; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
This study investigates the relationships between test takers' metacognitive and cognitive strategy use through a questionnaire and their test performance on an English as a Foreign Language reading test. A total of 593 Chinese college test takers responded to a 38-item metacognitive and cognitive strategy questionnaire and a 50-item reading test.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Tests, Metacognition
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Russell, Alicia – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
Russell Tufts University This study examines the potential of designing and teaching online courses to prompt university faculty members to reflect on the essence of good teaching, and as a result reconsider their beliefs concerning effective pedagogy. A phenomenological investigation was conducted based on interviews with six long-time university…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Sipple, Thomas S.; And Others – 1978
Matrix tasks designed to assess the logical properties of multiple classification and multiple seriation were administered to 105 first, third, and fifth grade children. The tasks included cross-class and double series matrices, each of which had a reproduction and a transposition instructional set, and a revised set of cross-class and double…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Sectional Studies
Epstein, Kenneth; And Others – 1997
This paper discusses the results of a study of 27 college students with deafness that investigated whether cognitive processes are modality dependent in individuals with deafness. The experiment included two separate parts, one composed of shape trials and the other composed of word trials. An initial stimulus was shown on a computer screen for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Deafness, Encoding (Psychology)
Mizelle, Nancy B.; And Others – 1993
This paper presents findings of a study that examined young adolescents' motivational processes and use of strategies with expository text. Specifically, the study sought to determine how their attributes, self-efficacy, intrinsic value, anxiety, and goal orientation related to their use of cognitive and self-regulating strategies needed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Expository Writing, Goal Orientation
Sample, John – 2002
Goal setting is a dispositional trait that influences motivation to learn and to perform. Individuals with a Performing (or Proving) Goal Orientation are characterized by a desire to please authority figures, the belief that personal abilities are stable and unchanging, and a tendency to become frustrated and give up quickly when faced by…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Feedback
Rothwell, William J. – 2002
This book explains how work organizations can create a workplace climate that encourages real-time, on-the-job learning and development of competent workplace learners, who are wiling and able to seize the initiative for identifying their own learning experiences and evaluating the results. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style