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Peer reviewedHamilton, Richard – Journal of Experimental Education, 1989
The effects of asking 48 undergraduates to generate personal examples of target concepts on learning of psychological concepts from prose were evaluated. This elaboration activity produced a significant positive effect. Elaboration processes seemed to influence the transfer of concepts to problem-solving, especially for lower ability students.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Download full textSuydam, Marilyn N., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1979
Thirteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Four of the reports deal with learning or thought processes, two each with concept formation, sex differences, teacher effects and student abilities, and one report deals with anxiety. An editor's note lists various other sources of reviews of research in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Ability, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedHarty, Harold; And Others – Science Education, 1987
Describes a study which sought to determine whether differences existed between girls and boys in terms of their concept structure interrelatedness competence (ConSIC) in the areas of physical science, life science, earth sciences, between sciences, within sciences and across all sciences by measuring ConSIC. (ML)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science
Norden, K. – 1970
The development of psychological methods for assessing the abilities of deaf students could aid in the formation of educational programs and the provision of vocational guidance. A battery of tests designed to measure a wide range of functions was administered to all eighth grade students, average age 15, in schools for the deaf in Sweden. All…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Adolescents, Career Guidance
Peer reviewedSaunders, Walter L.; Jesunathadas, Joseph – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1988
Examines the effect of familiar and unfamiliar task content upon proportional reasoning abilities of ninth grade students. Uses content from chemistry and physics textbooks. Reports that student performance was higher on proportional reasoning problems involving familiar content than with unfamiliar content and that content famililarity interacted…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Cognitive Processes
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2003
Effectively teaching low-achieving and learning disabled students is challenging. Concept-based instruction is recognized as a particularly effective technique for helping students in these populations attain high levels of achievement (Tindal, Nolet, & Blake, 1992). The maze (a reading selection where certain words have been deleted and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Arts, Student Improvement, Academic Achievement
