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Wittrock, M. C. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1974
The learning of mathematics is presented as a cognitive process rather than as a behavioristic one. A generative model of mathematics learning is described. Learning with understanding can occur with discovery or reception treatments. Relevant empirical research is discussed and implications for teaching mathematics as a generative process are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Information Processing
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Sachdev, S. S. – School Science and Mathematics, 1972
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Curriculum Development, Developing Institutions, 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
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers