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Bhattacharya, Usree – Journal of Literacy Research, 2022
Widely prevalent in a variety of educational contexts around the world, rote learning practices entail repetition techniques to acquire new knowledge. These practices have long been critiqued because of the emphasis on recall rather than deep understanding. Less attention has been directed, however, at the literacy ideologies underpinning such…
Descriptors: Rote Learning, Literacy Education, Residential Institutions, Teaching Methods
Milman, Charlotte – Academic Therapy, 1979
A teaching method for enhancing rote memory ability is described. The use of a metronome was found to establish a tempo, or rhythm, which enabled children to learn multiplication tables more easily. (PHR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Problems, Learning Processes, Memorization
Hart, Leslie A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
New knowledge on the evolution of the brain helps to explain human behavior and learning patterns. Threat is implicit in our school system, according to the author, and this atmosphere severely inhibits full use of the New Mammalian brain. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Behavior, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gott, Richard; Johnson, Philip – School Science Review, 1999
Asks whether what is taught in science class only makes sense to someone who already understands science. Discusses school science in terms of four questions: (1) What is to be taught?; (2) What conditions promote learning?; (3) What do students learn?; and (4) What are the cognitive processes in learners' minds? (Contains 17 references.)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1980
Focusing on how teachers can devise instructional routines to help students learn to learn, this paper discusses mechanisms for training students to devise their own strategies for learning. Because of the dominance of deliberate memory strategies in training research, the paper begins with a brief consideration of such literature, then proceeds…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Meltzer, Lynn J.; And Others – 1984
The associations among cognitive automatization, abstract problem solving, and educational performance were studied using 127 fourth to ninth grade students. A number of measures of fast, automatic, and fluent performance (FAF measures) were used: writing the alphabet; reading from a word list; and mentally performing arithmetic operations. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Cognitive Measurement