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Casali, Nicole; Ghisi, Marta; Meneghetti, Chiara – Education Sciences, 2022
Little is known about the intraindividual dispositional factors related to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional academic learning outcomes under COVID-19. This study investigated (i) the associations of intraindividual factors, some related to studying (motivation to learn, self-regulated learning, and study resilience), others more general (soft…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Collett, Karen; Green, Lena – South African Journal of Education, 2017
The current emphasis on curriculum leadership implies the need to update school leaders' pedagogical knowledge. This paper will interest local and international readers because it highlights both essential content and the importance of the pedagogy employed to convey it. The study explored the initial effects of an introduction to Cognitive…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Cognitive Development, Experiential Learning
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Heaton, Rebecca; Crumpler, Alice – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2017
By exploring changemaker principles as a component of social justice art education this research-informed article exemplifies how moral consciousness and responsibility can be developed when training artist teachers. It embeds changemaker philosophy in the higher education art curriculum and demonstrates how this can create ruptures and ripples…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Art Teachers, Artists, Moral Values
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Moy, Brendan; Renshaw, Ian; Davids, Keith; Brymer, Eric – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes have been identified as a critical platform to encourage the exploration of alternative teaching approaches by pre-service teachers. However, the socio-cultural constraint of acculturation or past physical education and sporting experiences results in the maintenance of the status…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Physical Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Chan, Roy Yew-Hung – Online Submission, 2011
This comparative research examined the effects of student involvement and college environment on students' learning and living experience delivered by two aspiring world-class universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Few studies have shown how the levels of student involvement and college environment can benefit students at world-class institution.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Interaction
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Jones, Hanneke – Curriculum Journal, 2008
This article aims to outline the reported experiences of practitioners in a local authority in England where, since the mid-1990s, a high proportion of teachers have undertaken professional development in the field of teaching thinking skills. The article is based on the main findings from a questionnaire survey which was carried out among first,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development, Thinking Skills
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Ricoy, Carmen; Pino, Margarita – Higher Education in Europe, 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the use and educational application of technical resources by students of Social Education (SE) in Spain. The reasons for this research were based on the importance of gaining a deep command of the various skills associated with information and communication technologies in the acquisition of generic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Information Technology, Technological Literacy
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Litwin, James L.; And Others – Liberal Education, 1978
A values analysis course, developed to improve critical thinking, is described. Included in the report is an evaluation of the students' reaction to the class which revealed a general work-play conflict inherent in the course and in college life itself. (JMD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Freshmen, Course Evaluation, Critical Thinking
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Barnes, George; Barnes, George Bruce – American Journal of Physics, 1978
Reports the results of a study designed to measure any changes in the Piagetian level of intellectual functioning of students after taking one introductory college physics course for one semester. No developmental progress was found as a result of taking such a course. (Author/GA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Science, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Schwarz, Baruch; Dreyfus, Tommy – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1995
A computer microworld called Triple Representation Model uses graphical, tabular, and algebraic representations to influence conceptions of function. A majority of students were able to cope with partial data, recognize invariants while coordinating actions among representations, and recognize invariants while creating and comparing different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Functions (Mathematics)
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Harrison, W. David; Atherton, Charles R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 1990
This study compared the cognitive development of 272 students in 7 graduate and 9 undergraduate social work programs. Students beginning their social work study at the graduate level scored significantly higher than students beginning social work study at the undergraduate level in their ability to see situations in more mature and complex ways.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum, Graduate Students
Hogan, Thomas P. – 1976
Most instruments for student evaluation of college instruction focus on the course and the instructor without considering the student's perception of the impact of the course on him or her. The Course Comments Questionnaire (CCQ) and the Personalized Course Analysis (PCA) were developed at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay to overcome this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Course Evaluation, Factor Analysis
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Kirby, John R.; Pedwell, Denise – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Considers the role that students' approaches to learning play in summarizing text and learning from summarization. Discusses studies of two forms of summarization, one with the text available and one with the text removed after reading but before summarization. Reports that text-absent summarization facilitates deeper processing for students who…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Kuhlthau, Carol Collier – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Describes a longitudinal study of students' perceptions of the information search process in libraries over a four-year period from high school through college. The discussion covers the cognitive theory on which the study was based, a model of the search process, and how closely students' perceptions matched the model. (26 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, High School Students, High Schools, Higher Education
Forst, Edmund, Jr.; Wheeless, Lawrence R. – 1986
Noting that because parents are generally the most important influences in a child's developmental process, and that some studies have suggested that self-concept is related to loneliness, a study focused on the understanding of loneliness in child-parent interactions. It was hypothesized: (1) that individual dimensions of self-disclosure and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication Research, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
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