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Yau, Hon Keung; Cheng, Alison Lai Fong – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Some past studies find that older students have more confidence in using technology for learning than younger students but some other studies find the opposite result. However, it is found that there are a few researches studying on the age difference in the perception of using technology for learning in Hong Kong. Therefore, the aim of the study…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education
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Treuren, Gerry; Anderson, Kathryn – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2010
If the existence of Generation Y is a viable explanation of employment behaviour, as is asserted in the burgeoning literature, then people between 18 and 33 (born between 1977 and 1992) will have markedly different approaches to work when compared with Generation X (1962 and 1976) and the Baby Boomers (1946 to 1961). This article reviews the…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Cohort Analysis, Age Differences, Employment Potential
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Oppenheimer, Louis – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
The hypothesis guiding this study stated that just world beliefs (i.e., the belief that the world is orderly and just) are primitive beliefs that lose their importance across age as they become replaced by more sophisticated forms of reasoning enabling individuals to handle a world that is neither orderly nor just. In addition, just world beliefs…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, College Students, World Views, Justice
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Waters, Harriet Salatas; Hou, Fung-Ting – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Two experiments look at factors influencing the ways children construct an abstract representation of story structure that contains the characteristics described by story grammars. (RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, College Students
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Garrod, Simon; and Clark, Aileen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Analysis of a large corpus (80 pairs of speakers) of 7-12 year olds suggests that 2 principles underlie the development of dialogue coordination skills. The seven to eight year olds establish a limited common dialogue lexicon, whereas older speakers show evidence of deep coordination processes aimed at establishing mutual intelligibility of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Students
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Ackerman, Philip L. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
This report reviews a theoretically inspired empirical investigation of individual differences in knowledge, abilities, and nonability traits as part of an ongoing effort to better understand adult intellectual development and to develop more accurate measures of adult intelligence. Twenty Knowledge Scales were constructed, drawing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Adult Development, Intellectual Development, Individual Differences