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Glaser, Robert – Social Policy, 1977
Rather than requiring individuals to adapt to means of instruction, the desired objective is to adapt the conditions of instruction to individuals. This objective can be realized if learning can be designed to take account of an individual's profile of achievements and cognitive skills. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Daily Living Skills, Educational Assessment
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Phye, Gary D.; Sanders, Cheryl E. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1992
The ability of 59 college students to access prior knowledge spontaneously in the form of a general procedure and a specific strategy was demonstrated using a training for transfer paradigm. Results are discussed in the context of transfer-appropriate processing and transfer-appropriate procedures models of learning and memory. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Educational Assessment, Epistemology
Hoerr, Thomas R. – 1996
This brief reviews the concept of multiple intelligences (MI) and discusses the implementation of the theory of MI in the New City School, an independent school in St. Louis (Missouri). The theory of MI, as developed by Howard Gardner, says that there are at least seven different intelligences: linguistic, logical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Assessment, Educational Theories, Elementary Education