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Kearney, Randi; Patterson, Katelyn; Wyner, Tressa – Childhood Education, 2019
Some of the most effective innovations in education have allowed fundamental changes to how individual students are being taught and assessed. Personalized learning models tailor learning to individual needs, accommodating students with diverse learning styles.
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Educational Innovation, Emotional Development, Social Development
Asbjornsen, Douglas J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Quality learning and high student achievement are primary goals of K-12 public school education. Superintendent-School Board teams can have a positive impact on both. Collaboration is critical to these teams' effectiveness and efficiency. Research has suggested conflict can have a negative impact on collaboration and may be related to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Conflict, Superintendents, Boards of Education
Hu, Yiling; Wu, Bian; Gu, Xiaoqing – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Problem solving is considered a fundamental human skill. However, large-scale assessment of problem solving in K-12 education remains a challenging task. Researchers have argued for the development of an enhanced assessment approach through joint effort from multiple disciplines. In this study, a three-stage approach based on an evidence-centered…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Online Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, Evidence Based Practice
Hoerr, Thomas R. – Educational Leadership, 2016
How important is it that every student in a school is excited about learning? Should a student be allowed to use all his/her strengths in learning? Do you know someone who wasn't a particularly good student but has been very successful in life? What these seemingly unrelated questions have in common is an appreciation for the range of talents that…
Descriptors: Caring, Multiple Intelligences, Teaching Methods, Educational Legislation
Chung, Gregory K. W. K. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: Historically, significant advances in scientific understanding have followed advances in measurement and observation. As the resolving power of an instrument increased, so have gains in the understanding of the phenomena being observed. Modern interactive systems are potentially the new "microscopes" when they are…
Descriptors: Online Systems, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Curriculum Review, 2008
"Teaching Kids to Change the World: Lessons to Inspire Social Responsibility for Grades 6-12," by Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner and Chris Maser, is a practical guide that provides educators with the essential tools to inspire young people to change the world for the better. Focusing on eight principles of change, it includes lessons, examples and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Young Adults, Social Responsibility, Change Agents
Kane, Martin – Academic Therapy, 1984
The second of two articles defines terms associated with in two contrasting cognitive approaches to promoting problem solving: the visual/spatial, holistic style (terms such as face recognition, impulsive) and the verbal analytic and detail-oriented style (terms such as logical, sequential, and focalized). (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Disabilities
Rubenzer, Ronald L. – 1978
The paper, part of an all-day workshop, reviews research and theory on left-right hemisphere information processing and psychophysiological models on the functional organization of the brain. Hemisphericity is considered in terms of language, cognitive styles, role in education, verbal and non-verbal processing, affective concomitants, and…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Multiple Intelligences and Positive Life Habits: 174 Activities for Applying Them in Your Classroom.
Beachner, Lynne; Pickett, Anola – 2001
This book offers teachers a toolbox for discovering the innate strengths and talents and the unique learning styles of each student. Drawing from Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences, the book offers more than a dozen activities specifically tailored to each of the eight multiple intelligences: verbal/linguistic, mathematical/logical,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Multiple Intelligences

Valencia, Atilano A. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1980
Presents contemporary positions on cognitive learning styles, provides a brief description of 12 cognitive learning styles and of recent research studies, offers criterion statements for consideration in reviewing research studies on cognitive learning styles, and offers suggestions for teachers concerning cognitive learning styles. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education

Hlawaty, Heide – American Biology Teacher, 2002
Introduces the Reading-Is-The-Answer (RITA) method which teaches students to read while considering their learning styles. Recommends using technology combined with RITA for older students. (YDS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving

Hunter, Eagan – NASSP Bulletin, 1993
Creativity is an abstract concept, not a measurable, observable behavior. There is little correspondence between intelligence and creativity functions. Educators need not pierce the mythology of genius or formally define creativity to foster creative thinking. Teachers can nourish the seeds of creativity by engaging students' learning styles and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Creativity, Educational Quality
Huhn, Ralph H., Jr. – 1981
The "impulsive responder" is a learner who avoids or eliminates confusing situations. Rather than acknowledging that a given problem solving task is too difficult, the impulsive responder simply perceives a different task--one that he or she has learned to solve. For the teacher there may be many different problems, but for the impulsive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Metacognition

Sternberg, Robert J.; Martin, Marie – Teachers College Record, 1988
This article offers four models of what may be going wrong in the transmission of thinking skills from textbooks and teachers to students. Sources of the problem are identified and possible solutions, alternatives, and strategies of "teaching for thinking" are described. (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving, Relevance (Education)

de Mesquita, Paul B. – Journal of School Psychology, 1992
Investigated diagnostic problem solving of doctoral and nondoctoral school psychologists, educational diagnosticians, and school psychology graduate students (n=125) through use of computer simulation of typical school referral problem and verbal retrospective think-aloud protocol. Results suggest that education and experience were unrelated to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Students