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Peer reviewedEisenstaedt, Richard S.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1990
In this study of students (N=112) invited to participate in a hematology-transfusion medicine tutorial, it was found that students (N=59) receiving problem-based instruction did more poorly than controls on short-term examination but maintained their knowledge after two years better than control groups. (MLW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Independent Study, Medical Education
Peer reviewedHarris, Muriel – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1988
Explains how peer writing tutors not only help their fellow students, but can also learn a great deal themselves about grammar and mechanics, information processing, marking papers, audience awareness, and problem-solving strategies. (ARH)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Experiential Learning
Download full textRedish, Edward F.; Saul, Jeffery M.; Steinberg, Richard N. – 2000
This paper reports on the results of substituting one-hour active-engagement tutorials using microcomputer based laboratory (MBL) equipment for traditional problem-solving recitations in introductory calculus-based mechanics classes for engineering students at the University of Maryland. The results of two specific tutorials--one on the concept of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Force
Peer reviewedMoust, J. H. C.; And Others – Higher Education, 1989
The relative effectiveness of staff tutors and student tutors in teaching higher level cognitive skills to University of Limburg (Netherlands) law students appears to be similar, but staff tutors are felt to be better because they are experts in their field. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Collins, Allan; And Others – 1974
An analysis was made of the strategies by which tutors adapt their teaching to individual students; the objective was to synthesize these strategies in a computer system called SCHOLAR. Tape recordings of dialogues between tutors and students about South American geography were made to discover the strategies used by tutors. Since SCHOLAR is a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1985
This issue of "Investigations in Mathematics Education" contains: (1) 12 abstracts of research studies in mathematics education; (2) a list (by EJ number) of mathematics education research studies reported in the July-to-December 1984 issues of "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE); and (3) a list (by ED number) of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Games
