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Perceived Benefits of an Undergraduate Degree
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Norton, Cole; Martini, Tanya – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Canadian university students tend to endorse employment-related reasons for attending university ahead of other reasons such as personal satisfaction or intellectual growth. In the present study, first- and fourth-year students from a mid-sized Canadian university reported on the benefits they expected to receive from their degree and rated their…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Foreign Countries
A Cognitive Analysis of the Written Judgments and Spoken Discourse of Adolescent Pupils.
Michell, Lynn – CORE, 1979
A cognitive-based system of analysis of spoken discourse was designed to provide details about the way pupils think and talk about issues arising from prose material. Written and spoken responses were analyzed to examine the effects of intellectual ability, differences in the stimulus passage, and prior small group discussion. (Note: Page…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
Adolescent Judgement in Relation to Situations Involving Change.
Crowther, E. M. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
Adolescents, ages 11-12 and 13-14, were tested for maturity of judgment about stability-change situations and about time perspective. (CP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes