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Michelle Yeo; Sarah Hewitt; Joanne Bouma; Sarah Lang – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Heavy content, high volume courses commonly create challenges for undergraduate students. Two such courses at our university are the introductory semesters of anatomy and physiology for first-year nursing students, taught by biology instructors. Despite the vast literature indicating the efficacy of using concept maps as a tool for learning, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students
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Saltaris, Christina; Serbin, Lisa A.; Stack, Dale M.; Karp, Jennifer A.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Ledingham, Jane E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
The current investigation was designed to examine the provision of cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged children from high-risk families. Participants were drawn from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, a prospective, longitudinal investigation of individuals recruited in 1976-77 from lower SES neighbourhoods who were rated by childhood…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Stimulation, Investigations, Preschool Children
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Matthews, Dona J.; Keating, Daniel P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1995
Studied diversity in high-level competence with 122 students identified as academically gifted, in grades 6-8. Results, which contradicted linear, single-scale models of intelligence, supported a three-factor solution: linguistic, logical-mathematical, and social. Specialization and generalization developed in tension with each other, yielding…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Behavior Development