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Direct linkKarimi, Mohammad Nabi; Nazari, Mostafa – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Despite the recognition of the importance of teachers' professional development, the exploration of teachers' Critical Incidents (CIs) as a type of professional development initiative has received insufficient attention in L2 teaching contexts. Motivated by the dearth of research in this area and building on complexity theory as its conceptual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers
Eilam, Billie; Mattatia, Miri – Journal of Experimental Education, 2015
We investigated young children's construal of pain in relation to (a) the self, (b) other humans, and (c) animals, plants, and objects, to elucidate children's cognitive understanding of this complex, abstract, subjective concept. We interviewed 17 Kindergarten students using a variety of non-painful stimuli and procedures to prompt discussion of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Childhood Attitudes, Pain
Peer reviewedCohen, Herbert G. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Presents a study to examine the effects of a verbal teaching strategy versus a strategy providing instruction using activities and manipulatives in four seventh grade earth science classes with students of varying cognitive abilities (n=83). Results indicate that students with more cognitive structures perform better and that using manipulatives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures
Download full textBeins, Bernard C. – 1992
The two-part activity outlined in this paper reveals to undergraduate students that assumptions made in theory building remain unquestioned until one steps outside the initial realm of expectations, and that theories adopted have a demonstrable impact on behaviors. Part I defines a theory, describes the roles of assumptions and knowledge in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Expectation, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
Roberson, Donald N., Jr. – 2002
A study addressed the impact of the travel experience on the older traveler and when such experiences may be transformative. It explored the experiences of four older and experienced travelers. Research questions were: What types of experiences travelers identified? In what ways transformative experience was manifested? What conditions seemed to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Structures, Educational Research
Lewin, Beverly A. – 1992
Schemata based notions need not replace, but should be reflected in, product-centered reading tests. The contributions of schema theory to the psycholinguistic model of reading has been thoroughly reviewed. Schemata-based reading tests provide several advantages: (1) they engage the appropriate conceptual processes for the student which frees the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College English, Educational Needs, English (Second Language)
