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Bourner, Tom – Higher Education Review, 2009
This article is about student learning, specifically the problem of what a university can do to develop its students' powers of learning. The broad approach is to discover what we can learn from the university's long experience with developing students' critical faculties and then apply the lessons to developing students' powers of learning. The…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Development, Student Development, Cognitive Processes
McKellar, Nancy A. – 1984
An experiment was conducted to determine whether tutoring is a learning activity from which the tutor, as well as the tutee, gains cognitively. Undergraduate students (N=80) participated in the study. Half of the subjects studied selected material to tutor another subject. The other half studied material to prepare for a test that they would take.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Higher Education