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Hoppe, Magnus; Westerberg, Mats; Leffler, Eva – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present and develop models of educational approaches to entrepreneurship that can provide complementary analytical structures to better study, enact and reflect upon the role of entrepreneurship in higher education. Design/methodology/approach A general framework for entrepreneurship education is developed…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Engineering Education
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Tormey, Roland – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
The "deep/surface approach to learning" framework is widely used in higher education. Its perceived strength is that it is regarded as having two functions: both being (1) a useful metaphor for development of teaching and learning in higher education and (2) a valid concept for researchers. In this paper, I present a critical review of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students
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Greasley, Kay; Ashworth, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
The "Approaches to Studying Inventory" (ASI) was based on qualitative research by Marton and Saljo, which established "surface" and "deep" approaches to study. This article attempts a new qualitative explication of the meanings of study. A heuristic due to Husserl is employed which distinguishes between the "noema", the "subjective object" of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, Heuristics, Inquiry
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Scharton, Maurice – Research in the Teaching of English, 1989
Reports a study of teachers' and writers' interpretations of scenario assignments. Finds that, among the three groups tested (graduate students trained to teach rhetoric, academically successful undergraduate students trained as tutors, and entering freshmen) experienced writers' interpretations adhered most closely to the interpretive community's…
Descriptors: Assignments, Competence, Heuristics, Higher Education
Hayes, Harold L. – 1984
A heuristic model designed to improve creative problem-solving by engineering students was studied. Ten students majoring in industrial engineering were pre-tested to establish the range and accuracy of their performance prior to training and to identify stereotyped thinking. The test was an adventure scenario with 50 embedded problems along with…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Thinking, Educational Research, Engineering
Lawrence, Jeanette; And Others – 1985
This research addresses the actual goals and intentions from which students plan and organize their work in a course of study. Representations can either facilitate or hinder learning and problem solutions. Several salient aspects of adult students' representational systems and how they influenced university study were examined in two studies. The…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Cognitive Processes, Heuristics
Booth, Shirley – 1990
This paper reports the results of a phenomenographic study which focused on identifying and describing the conceptions of programming and related phenomena of about 120 computer science and computer engineering students learning to program. The report begins by tracing developments in the students' conceptions of programming and its parts, and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Heuristics
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Woods, Donald R. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1988
Summarizes research that contrasts the approaches and attitudes of successful and unsuccessful problem solvers. Supplies a categorized list of problem solver characteristics. (RT)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Ability, College Science, Decision Making
Leeman, Richard W. – 1987
Argumentation courses, which emphasize the theories of argumentation, and debate courses, which teach competitive debate, can effectively teach critical thinking, training students to see situations from a variety of perspectives and then to evaluate those perspectives for their relative merit. William G. Perry maps out nine stages by which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Critical Thinking, Debate, Decision Making
Slotnick, Robert S. – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1989
Discusses the implementation of interactive educational software that was designed to enhance critical thinking, scientific reasoning, and problem solving in a university psychology course. Piagetian and computer learning perspectives are explained; the courseware package, PsychWare, is described; and the use of heuristics and algorithms in…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
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Stewart, Jim – Science Education, 1988
Examines various types of problems that researchers have used to demonstrate problem solving. Focuses on genetics problems. Discusses classes of learning outcomes, conceptual knowledge gains, content-independent heuristics, content-specific procedures, understanding the nature of science and a typology of genetics problems. (CW)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Cognitive Ability, College Science, Genetics
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Volet, Simone E.; Lawrence, Jeanette A. – Australian Journal of Education, 1988
Five women university students' representations of their learning were analyzed and related to their on-going adaptations to course demands. Representations involved their goals, working plans and perceptions of difficulties. Qualitative data from students' accounts were tabulated schematically in relation to Duncker's concepts of productive…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Females
Sipple, William L. – 1985
While each English department will establish its own set of assumptions appropriate for its objectives and programs, the new rhetoric can bring some coherence to the teaching of writing and literature by providing students with reliable strategies for reading literature as well as writing. In teaching literature teachers need to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, Heuristics, Higher Education
Farr, Marshall J., Ed.; Psotka, Joseph, Ed. – 1992
The essays collected in this volume are concerned with the field of computer-based intelligent instruction. The papers are organized into four groups that address the following topics: particular theoretical approaches (3 titles); the development and improvement of tools and environments (3 titles); the power of well-engineered implementations and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Computer Simulation, Elementary Education, Heuristics
Konold, Clifford – 1987
This paper illustrates a model of the layperson's reasoning patterns under conditions of uncertainty, the "outcome approach," which was developed from analysis of videotaped problem-solving interviews with 16 undergraduate students. According to the outcome approach, the goal in questions of uncertainty is to predict the outcome of an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Science, Heuristics
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