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Download full textDansereau, Donald F.; And Others – 1974
This report reviews and synthesizes psychological and educational research on learning strategies. The report contains an overview of strategy modification; a review of factors influencing strategy selection and use (including intellectual aptitude, personality variables, cognitive style, reception preference, motivation, sex, and prior…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Creativity
Peer reviewedGlaser, Robert – American Psychologist, 1973
Educational psychologists can help create and preserve an experimental mood in education whereby scientists, educators, curriculum designers, teachers, parents, and students feel they have a direct part in decisions to improve their schools. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Curriculum Development, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
Snow, Richard E.; Salomon, Gavriel – 1968
Little is known about the teaching effectiveness of instructional media, particularly film and television. Accumulated research evidence applies to a generalized "average student," and thus to no one. There has been little concern for individual differences in interaction with instructional-media variables. The problem lies with the design of…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Ability Identification, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude
Wright, David Paul – 1975
This doctoral thesis examines whether inductive and deductive teaching methods are appropriate for different learners. Statistical interactions between the two instructional methods and various aptitude variables were examined among 275 sixth-grade pupils. Subjects were randomly assigned to rule-example (deductive) treatments or example-rule…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Critical Thinking
Tobias, Sigmund – 1978
Aptitude-treatment interaction research is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the interaction of achievement and instructional method. Previous research has suggested that students with lower prior achievement require maximal instructional support. Recent research on this relationship is reviewed, as well as the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes
Shuell, Thomas J.
This overview of recent research on individual differences especially concerns that research which relates to human learning and instruction. Several major areas of research are identified, and within each area various issues related to that area and representative studies are discussed. Whenever possible, references to more comprehensive reviews…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Griffin, Gary A.; And Others – 1981
A review is presented of research on student teaching. This review focuses on student teaching as the experience of a basic triad (student teacher, cooperating teacher, and university supervisor) embedded in several overlapping contexts. In the first section, literature is reviewed that deals with demographic characteristics, teacher concerns,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Cooperating Teachers, Educational Research
