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Lee, Sungwoong – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Reports and surveys by the U.S. government and international organizations have repeatedly acknowledged the achievement problem in math in K-12 regardless of various efforts (e.g., by the U.S. Department of Education) to diminish it. To address the problem in math achievement in K-12, teachers, scholars, and the U.S. government have developed…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Video Games
Backhouse, John K. – Mathematics Teaching, 1978
The author emphasizes the importance of concepts and mathematical form in a discussion of understanding mathematics. (MN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning
Skemp, Richard R. – Mathematics Teaching, 1982
Discussion about the nature and varieties of mathematical understanding is presented. Symbolic understanding is defined as a mutual assimilation between a symbol system and a conceptual structure, that is dominated by the conceptual structure. (MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Learning
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Eisner, Elliot W. – Educational Leadership, 1978
Curriculum balance is a conception rooted in an understanding of the nature and scope of cognition. It is not the case that certain cultural forms, such as the arts, to name but one example, are affective and mathematics cognitive. They are all cognitive. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum
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Sevcik, Rose A.; Romski, Mary Ann – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1986
Eight severely retarded subjects (ages 9-22), four with functional language and four without, performed identity and nonidentity matching tasks employing objects, photographs, and line drawings. As representational complexity increased, greater difficulty in matching stimuli was observed in the nonfunctional language group, with line drawings…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Scharff, Charles E. – 1974
This paper discusses the benefits of teaching literature through levels of understanding so that teachers can more quickly and efficiently determine the operational levels of individual students. The seven levels of understanding and some of the generic questions by which they can be determined are: (1) perceptual level: "What happened, when,…
Descriptors: Characterization, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stephenson, Jennifer; Linfoot, Ken – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1996
This article discusses communicative intent in persons with severe intellectual disability in the context of intervention studies reporting the acquisition of graphic symbol use. The article reviews communicative intent as formulated within psycholinguistic models of language acquisition which emphasize pragmatics and the functions of…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Salomon, Gavriel; Gardner, Howard – 1983
The "symbol systems approach" to the study of computers in education that is outlined avoids the pitfalls of past media research--particularly research on the effects of television on children's learning and knowledge--and asserts that media can be usefully distinguished in terms of the symbol systems they present and the kinds of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education
Silverstein, Ora – 1995
Given the role science and technology play in economic and social development in today's world, scientific and technological literacy must be given priority as an essential component of basic education. The significance of the visual component of literacy has increased with advances in technology and picture and image usage. The United Nations…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries