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Chow, Jia Yi – Quest, 2013
This article provides a brief overview of the framework of nonlinear pedagogy and evidence emanating from motor learning literature that underpins a nonlinear pedagogical approach. In addition, challenges for nonlinear pedagogy and a discussion on how nonlinear pedagogy support the work of physical education (PE) teachers will be shared. Evidence…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
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Renshaw, Ian; Chow, Jia Yi; Davids, Keith; Hammond, John – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2010
Background: In order to design appropriate environments for performance and learning of movement skills, physical educators need a sound theoretical model of the learner and of processes of learning. In physical education, this type of modelling informs the organisation of learning environments and effective and efficient use of practice time. An…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Physical Education, Play, Physical Education Teachers
Williams, Joanna P. – 1971
Recent models of beginning reading processes are described, and the author offers the following summarization: (1) Models at present focus on cognitive aspects of reading; little attempt has been made to incorporate affective aspects into the models. (2) Several different theoretical positions within psychology representing a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Linguistics
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Fowler, W.; Leithwood, K. A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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Anderson, John R.; Bothell, Daniel; Byrne, Michael D.; Douglass, Scott; Lebiere, Christian; Qin, Yulin – Psychological Review, 2004
Adaptive control of thought-rational (ACT-R; J. R. Anderson & C. Lebiere, 1998) has evolved into a theory that consists of multiple modules but also explains how these modules are integrated to produce coherent cognition. The perceptual-motor modules, the goal module, and the declarative memory module are presented as examples of specialized…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Cognitive Processes, Psychological Studies, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Hardy, Charles J. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1983
Researchers studied the effect of interpolating extraneous information on students' ability to process cognitive information concerning their prior performances on the McCloy block test. The extraneous information was given in the interval between their last test and their next attempt to perform it. Results are discussed. (Author/PP)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Singer, Robert N.; Pease, Dale – Research Quarterly, 1976
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Learning Experience, Learning Processes
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Macomber, Lois P. – 1972
The purpose of this paper was to relate Jean Piaget's stages of the learning process to the developmental aspects involved in reading comprehension. The need to correlate the developmental stage of the child's mind with the right types of activities was stressed. When a child has succeeded in the task of relating knowledge and affect to language…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Reading