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Tagg, John – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Higher education has defined merit largely in terms of speed. It rewards not those who learn the most or the best, but those who report their learning back by the deadline, whether that's the time limit for the test or the end of the semester. Resilient learning takes time. More time spent in study results in longer retention, and elapsed time…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Rewards, Ability, Social Systems
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Rios, Christopher M.; Golde, Chris M.; Tractenberg, Rochelle E. – Education Sciences, 2019
A steward of the discipline was originally defined as "someone who will creatively generate new knowledge, critically conserve valuable and useful ideas, and responsibly transform those understandings through writing, teaching, and application". This construct was articulated to support and strengthen doctoral education. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Professional Identity, Professional Development, Doctoral Programs
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Schraw, Gregory – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1994
Whether knowledge of cognition affects regulation of cognition was studied with 115 college students assigned to differing levels of self-monitoring ability. Results suggest that most college students possess metacognitive knowledge about their learning, although many do not use this to improve their regulation of test performance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education
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Kuhara-Kojima, Keiko; Hatano, Giyoo – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
In 3 experiments, 1,598 Japanese college students were examined concerning the learning of facts in 2 content domains, baseball and music. Content knowledge facilitated fact learning only in the relevant domain; learning ability facilitated fact learning in both domains. Effects of content knowledge and learning ability were additive. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Association (Psychology), Baseball, College Students
Ratcliff, James L.; And Others – 1989
Preliminary findings of the Differential Coursework Patterns (DCP) Project are reported. The Project uses assessment test scores and transcripts from samples of graduating college seniors to determine what coursework patterns were related to gains in the general learned abilities of the students. Random samples of graduating seniors have been…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Records, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests