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Durley, Hui-Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explores professional learning of teachers in a web-based Open-Ended Learning Environment (OELE). Adult learning theorists suggest that adults are self-directed, experience-based, personally- and socially-related, problem-oriented, and application-focused learners. Constructivists suggest that the OELE affords learners opportunities to…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Learning Processes, Educational Environment, Internet
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Leung, Kit H.; Pluye, Pierre; Grad, Roland; Weston, Cynthia – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2010
Introduction: The importance of reflective practice is recognized by the adoption of a reflective learning model in continuing medical education (CME), but little is known about how to evaluate reflective learning in CME. Reflective learning seldom is defined in terms of specific cognitive processes or observable performances. Competency-based…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Physicians, Learning Processes, Reflective Teaching
Ginsburg, Lynda; Manly, Myrna; Schmitt, Mary Jane – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2006
The term "numeracy" is used in the adult education community to include an array of mathematically related proficiencies that are evident in adults' lives and worthy of attention in adult education settings. This occasional paper attempts to describe the complex nature of numeracy as it exists today. All stakeholders--including policymakers,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Washington, DC. Commission of Professors of Adult Education. – 1991
This document contains the following 30 papers (most with short abstracts): "The Teacher Transition Response" (Carley); "There Must Be Some Meaning to This: Storytelling as a Research Method" (Group for Collaborative Inquiry); "The Impact of Patient, Social and Political, Practice Environment, and Physician Factors on the Integration of Health…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking
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Etchberger, Mia Lena; Shaw, Kenneth L. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Presents results of a case study to examine an elementary school teacher's transition from a teacher-as-dispenser and student-as-receiver view of learning to a teacher-as-provider and student-as-information-gatherer, processor, and constructor view of learning. Chronicles the transition in four stages. (20 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning)
Buch, Anders – 1999
Knowledge production and learning in engineering is a local, situated, negotiated, and thoroughly social process. Although engineering work entails the construal, production, and application of artifacts and technical devices belonging to the "object world," the process of designing is a process of achieving consensus among real or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning
O'Donnell, Angela M., Ed.; King, Alison, Ed. – 1999
Considerable attention has been given recently to how children educate each other and how to maximize the cognitive benefits of peer learning. Based on papers presented at a 1996 symposium on Cognitive Skills and Learning with Peers, this book focuses on peer learning. Part 1 presents implications of Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories. Part 2…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis
Hoines, Marit Johnsen, Ed.;; Fuglestad, Anne Berit, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This document contains the third volume of the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Inclusion and Diversity". A total of 65 research reports are presented here: (1) A Teacher's Model of Students Algebraic Thinking…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Psychology
Hoines, Marit Johnsen, Ed.;; Fuglestad, Anne Berit, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 28th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Inclusion and Diversity". This volume features 65 research report papers: (1) Constructing Meanings and Utilities within Algebraic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Characteristics, Research Tools