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Higher Learning: Developing Students' Powers of Learning in Higher Education
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Bourner, Tom – Higher Education Review, 2009
This article is about student learning, specifically the problem of what a university can do to develop its students' powers of learning. The broad approach is to discover what we can learn from the university's long experience with developing students' critical faculties and then apply the lessons to developing students' powers of learning. The…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Development, Student Development, Cognitive Processes
Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments.
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Scardamalia, Marlene; And Others – 1987
Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE) is a project using computer software to promote the constructive processes involved in intentional learning. CSILE enables groups of students to build a collective database (knowledge base) of their thoughts, in the form of pictures (created by students using a color graphics editor) and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.
Doughty, Catherine J., Ed.; Long, Michael H., Ed. – 2003
This handbook provides an integrated discussion of key issues in second language acquisition (SLA). The 24 chapters include the following: (1) "The Scope of Inquiry and the Goals of SLA" (Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long); (2) "On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar
A Cyclical Plan for Using Study Strategies.
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Hayes, David A.; Alvermann, Donna E. – Forum for Reading, 1984
A cyclical plan for studying that takes into account information processing strategies and their effective management by students consists of (1) specifying study purposes, (2) previewing the materials, (3) proceeding through the task incrementally, and (4) connecting the content to be learned to other knowledge about the material studied. Setting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intentional Learning
Process-Oriented Instruction in Learning and Thinking Strategies.
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Vermunt, Jan D. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1995
Shows the effects of a tutorial program for college students using process-oriented instruction. Process-oriented instruction combines domain-specific knowledge with teaching thinking strategies. Tutorials included a diagnostic learning style instrument and learning guides. Evaluation questionnaires and exam scores both indicated improved study…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Feedback
Additive Effects of Pre- and Post-Adjunct Questions in Prose Text.
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Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1978
The relationship between placement of adjunct questions in instructional material and incidental and intentional learning was investigated. A total of 150 undergraduate students assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading