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Sadro, Fay; Marsh, Lucy; Klenk, Hazel; Egglestone, Corin; Friel, Seana – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The future of work is changing, providing opportunities for new careers and novel ways of working. Changes to the world of work will be driven by long-term trends such as technological and demographic change as well as the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Future skills requirements will increasingly emphasise interpersonal, higher-order…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Change, Electronic Learning, Job Skills
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Johnson, Jerraco L.; Rudisill, Mary E.; Hastie, Peter; Wadsworth, Danielle; Strunk, Kamden; Venezia, Alexandra; Sassi, Julia; Morris, Michael; Merritt, Monaye – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2019
Purpose: Children who do not learn their fundamental motor skills (FMS) are more likely to be unskilled, sedentary adults. By consequence, it behooves those teaching physical education to put in place mechanisms that promote as well as motivate children to master their FMS. One approach to achieving this goal is through the adoption of mastery…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Physical Education
Johnson, Jerraco Leontae – ProQuest LLC, 2019
It is widely accepted that fundamental motor skills (FMS) are considered the building blocks for successful participation in sports and physical activity for children, adolescents, and adults (Haywood & Getchell, 2014), and that individuals must be able to master these skill patterns before they can engage in more complex movement patterns,…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Physical Activities, Mastery Learning, Preschool Children
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Lorencová, Hana; Jarošová, Eva; Avgitidou, Sofia; Dimitriadou, Catherine – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Promoting students' critical thinking is an important task of Teacher Education. This is a review paper of 39 research papers regarding the critical thinking practices that are utilised in Teacher Education programmes, including instructional approaches and strategies, ways of assessment, their results, and the factors that affect their success.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Skill Development
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Landwehr, Barbara; Weisseno, Georg – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2016
Very little research has been conducted on the contribution of political education to learning progress in Germany. Hence, there is a need for intervention studies measuring performance against the theoretical background of a political competence model. This model comprises three constructs: subject knowledge, motivation and attitudes. According…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Problem Solving, Skill Development, Politics
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Hu, Weiping; Jia, Xiaojuan; Plucker, Jonathan A.; Shan, Xinxin – Roeper Review, 2016
Learning motivation has a significant effect on student learning, which is a key determinant of academic performance and creativity. It is increasingly popular and important to cultivate learning motivation in schools. To consider this trend, a long-term intervention program named "Learn to Think" (LTT) was designed not only to improve…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Motivation, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Shahat, Mohamed A.; Ohle, Annika; Treagust, David F.; Fischer, Hans E. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
Educators and policymakers envision the future of education in Egypt as enabling learners to acquire scientific inquiry and problem-solving skills. In this article, we describe the validation of a model for problem solving and the design of instruments for evaluating new teaching methods in Egyptian science classes. The instruments were based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Problem Solving, Science Instruction
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Yukhymenko, Mariya – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2011
The current meta-analysis study summarizes the effects of the GlobalEd Project, a web-based educational intervention of international negotiations embedded within social studies curricula, on middle and high school students' interest in social studies and negotiation self efficacy. Meta-analytic evidence supports statistically significant…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, Student Interests