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Direct linkCullinane, Alison; Liston, Maeve – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
It is widely recognised that high-stakes assessment can significantly influence what is taught in the classroom. Many argue that high-stakes assessment results in a narrowed curriculum where students learn by rote rather than developing higher cognitive skills. This paper describes a study investigating the various cognitive objectives present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Biology, Science Tests
Download full textHuma, Afshan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
As a part of a huge intervention in teacher education programs in Pakistan the author had a firsthand experience of how the "habits of mind" hinder in changing the practices and cultures of teachers and institutions respectively. It has been a part of traditional teaching in Pakistan that only one text book is followed by teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
Haller, Coralie; Fisher, Ron; Gapp, Rod – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2007
Purpose: To provide an understanding of the ways in which Confucian Heritage students use reflection as a means of learning at university. Design/methodology/approach: The approach is an exploratory qualitative study into the ways in which Confucian Heritage students learn while studying at university. Data are collected by means of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedGott, Richard; Johnson, Philip – School Science Review, 1999
Asks whether what is taught in science class only makes sense to someone who already understands science. Discusses school science in terms of four questions: (1) What is to be taught?; (2) What conditions promote learning?; (3) What do students learn?; and (4) What are the cognitive processes in learners' minds? (Contains 17 references.)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKoivukari, A. Mirjami – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Discusses the importance of teachers of English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) in developing countries to understand the difference between teaching by rote and teaching for comprehension, primarily in the form of questions. A teacher training course that emphasized the importance of teaching for comprehension and promoting students' cognitive…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure
Peer reviewedLehto, Juhani – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1995
Explores the relationship between teenagers' working memory and school achievement. Experiments revealed significant correlations between the two, specifically in the field of foreign language. Includes descriptions of the experiments with accompanying statistical tables. (MJP)
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies
Naidoo, N.; Naidoo, R. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2007
Primary school learners' first encounters with mathematics in a traditional learning environment often create lifelong "math phobia."(Papert 1980) The situation in a country emerging from an oppressive education system designed to educationally disempower the majority of the population is much worse. The typical scenario in a previously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Conventional Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
