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Claire Timperley; Kate Schick – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Traditional authentic assessment tasks are frequently tied to future work and enmeshed in neoliberal and capitalist visions of education. We advocate an alternative approach where authenticity signifies meaningful learning outside the confines of the classroom to promote deep learning that 'sticks'. We proffer an understanding of "assessment…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Philosophy, World Views, Instruction
Brandt, Sarah; Benjamin, Rachel – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2022
The Children's Center for Communication/Beverly School for the Deaf (CCCBSD) follows a theme-based learning model, providing a quarterly theme around which teachers base cross-curricular instruction. The themes are intentionally broad to encourage teachers to create instructional units that integrate academic and functional learning in response to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Special Schools, Instruction
Sweller, John – Educational Psychologist, 2008
David C. Geary's thesis has the potential to alter our understanding of those aspects of human cognition relevant to instruction. His distinction between biologically primary knowledge that we have evolved to acquire and biologically secondary knowledge that is culturally important, taught in educational institutions and which we have not evolved…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Evolution, Instruction, Discovery Learning
Hartoonian, Michael – 1990
History and the social sciences can be defined as recorded narratives or stories about the past or present that describe change and continuity over time and seek to explain this change and continuity through a series of cause and effect propositions based on evidence and shaped by the scholar's social frame of reference. In social studies there…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking

King, Alison – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Presents an inquiry-based approach to promoting critical thinking in psychology. Maintains that the model emphasizes helping students ask thoughtful questions. Discusses research results supporting the use of questioning techniques to enhance critical thinking. (CFR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cooperative Learning
Putnam, A. R. – 2001
Research on how the brain works has resulted in wider-scale adoption of the principles of problem-based learning (PBL) in many areas of education, including technology education. The PBL approach is attractive to curriculum developers because it is based on interdisciplinary learning, results in multiple outcomes, is integrated and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education