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Robb, Elizabeth; Voorhees, Terry Tuvi – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2023
Colleges are currently involved in an epic struggle to keep students enrolled. One reason for student attrition involves non-academic issues such as executive functioning. In the present study, we investigated how journaling helped influence paradigm shifts in students' thinking regarding a growth mindset towards their educational performance. We…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Community College Students, Journal Writing
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Hallam, Susan – International Journal of Music Education, 2010
This paper reviews the empirical evidence relating to the effects of active engagement with music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. It draws on research using the most advanced technologies to study the brain, in addition to quantitative and qualitative psychological and educational studies. It…
Descriptors: Music, Role, Context Effect, Individual Development
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Lovat, Terrence; Dally, Kerry; Clement, Neville; Toomey, Ron – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Recent research in fields as diverse as educational philosophy and psychology, as well as in the neurobiological sciences, has underlined the need to reassess many of the assumptions that underpin the role of the school, the teacher and education in general. The work of the philosophers such as Carr and Kristjansson could be interpreted as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foundations of Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Adoption (Ideas)
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Tomporowski, Phillip D.; Davis, Catherine L.; Miller, Patricia H.; Naglieri, Jack A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2008
Studies that examine the effects of exercise on children's intelligence, cognition, or academic achievement were reviewed and results were discussed in light of (a) contemporary cognitive theory development directed toward exercise, (b) recent research demonstrating the salutary effects of exercise on adults' cognitive functioning, and (c) studies…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development
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Leichter, Hope Jensen – Teachers College Record, 1980
The temporal organization of the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City is examined in terms of daily or microtime, calendric time, and developmental time. The question of continuities over time, that is, the interweaving of past, present, and future, and the relation of these continuities to the transformations of education are also considered.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Individual Development
Gordon, Edmund W., Ed.; Bridglall, Beatrice L., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006
According to Gordon and Bridglall, the ability to learn is more of a developed human capacity than a fixed aptitude with which one is born. They argue that the emergence of academic ability is associated with exposure to specialized cultures that privilege the attitudes, knowledge, and skills that schools reward. Children who are born to and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Nature Nurture Controversy
Sax, Leonard – Educational Horizons, 2006
In this article, the author discusses several research reports demonstrating the existence of sex differences in cognitive function and language skills. Although dozens of studies published in the past five years have demonstrated dramatic sex differences in autonomic function, the educational literature has not emphasized those studies and their…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Language Skills, Gender Differences, Single Sex Schools
Kohlberg, Lawrence – 1971
This address starts by explaining the educational philosphy of John Dewey. In this context, the central aims of education are cognitive and moral development. In a pluralistic society, the teaching of morals poses a grave problem and gives rise to a belief in moral and ethical relativity. This address proceeds to show what is wrong with ethical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
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Weinert, Franz E., Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1989
Seven papers present international perspectives on the relationship between education and child development. Conclusions reached in research on developmental genetics, cognitive development, and classroom instruction are considered, characterizing the current state of knowledge with respect to the influence of education on achievement outcomes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Grob, Cecelia E.; Trojcak, Doris A. – 1974
The effects of conservation activities on children's acquisition of Piaget's conservation concepts were investigated. One hundred and twenty-eight seven-to nine-year-old children in four classrooms were given pre- and post-evaluation measures of conservation ability. The experimental group completed a set of 42 self-directed conservation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Sullivan, Howard J. – 1968
Evaluation techniques were designed to improve learner performance through use of pre-specified popular instructional objectives. Current curriculum planning and evaluation practices are examined. Two common evaluation malpractices are: (1) the tendency to treat the content of the program as the most important criterion for evaluation, (2) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Classification