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Zimmerman, Barry J.; Bergan, John R. – 1968
Because the pressure of technological advancement has made teaching factual knowledge increasingly difficult, educators have been developing curriculums to transmit intellectual processes applicable to many tasks instead of subject matter content. One of the 20 educational Follow Through programs, the Tucson Early Education Model, surveyed 42…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development
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Singer, Harry – Reading Teacher, 1978
Teaching active comprehension helps students learn to ask their own questions and guide their own thinking. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Guszak, Frank J. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Tabulates the frequency of comprehension question types and teacher questioning behavior and reports that teachers emphasize recall, use several controlling actions in questioning, and miss opportunities for putting questions into clusters which would extend thinking. Bibliography. (MD)
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary School Teachers
Jennings, Clare; Terry, Gwenith – Dimensions, 1990
Explains the significance of stories in productive thinking by collecting and analyzing the reactions of 40 children of 3 and 4 years to 10 stories. Results indicate that stories can be used to understand preschool children's thinking and increase their productive thoughts. (BB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development, Preschool Children
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Hartford, Fred; Good, Ron – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1982
Determined if student questioning skills could be taught within framework of an ongoing chemistry course and if acquisition of these skills depends on high school students' (N=108) level of intellectual development. Results indicate that questioning skills can be acquired by students, regardless of their level of Piagetian intellectual…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, High School Students
Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1978
Recent studies on schema theory and other concepts related to reading comprehension are discussed in this paper. Noting that the psycholinguistic model of reading views reading as a process of predicting meaning based on the reader's prior knowledge of language, the paper describes recent research that has led to a definition of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Los Angeles City Schools, CA. Div. of Instructional Planning and Services. – 1968
The purpose of this publication is to help teachers identify the levels which children have attained in their thinking as they express their attitudes, values, and behaviors through oral language. Provided are (1) sample questions applicable to various maturity levels to enable teachers to gauge the level of difficulty of their classroom…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development