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Gray, Colin M. – Design and Technology Education, 2013
A wide range of design literature discusses the role of the studio and its related pedagogy in the development of design thinking. Scholars in a variety of design disciplines pose a number of factors that potentially affect this development process, but a full understanding of these factors as experienced from a critical pedagogy or student…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Interviews, Performance Factors
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Schofield, Linda – Kairaranga, 2012
In this study, qualitative evidence is collected--through classroom observations and teacher and student interviews--to study the effect of metacognition and the interaction between students' observable cognitive behaviour and the instructional task. This qualitative data is analysed to identify what factors support and improve students'…
Descriptors: Evidence, Metacognition, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
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Freedman, Skott E.; Maas, Edwin; Caligiuri, Michael P.; Wulf, Gabriele; Robin, Donald A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: Previous studies (e.g., G. Wulf, M. HoB, & W. Prinz, 1998; G. Wulf, B. Lauterbach, & T. Toole, 1999; for a review, see G. Wulf & W. Prinz, 2001) have reported that limb motor performance is enhanced when individuals adopt an external focus (focusing on the effect of the movement) versus an internal focus of attention (focusing on body…
Descriptors: Attention, Performance Factors, Self Actualization, Physical Education
Nellermoe, Donald A. – Journal of Business Education, 1973
Descriptors: Business Education, Cognitive Processes, Performance Factors, Skill Development
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Drake, Carolyn; Palmer, Caroline – Cognition, 2000
This study investigated acquisition of music performance skills over 11 practice trials in novice and expert pianists differing in age, training, and sight-reading ability. The finding of a strong positive relationship between the mastery of temporal constraints and planning abilities within performance suggested that these two cognitive…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Boll, Thomas J. – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
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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
Whimbey, Arthur; Barberena, Celia J. – 1977
This report discusses the cognitive-skills approach to teaching. This approach makes explicit the mental activities engaged in by successful thinkers as they solve problems and master ideas, and it attempts to teach these "high aptitude" thinking activities to "low-aptitude" students. The report begins by illustrating and contrasting high- and…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes