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Transformative Learning: Immigrant Learners Who Participated in Recognition of Acquired Competencies (RAC)
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Moss, Leah; Brown, Andy – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2014
Recognition of Acquired Competencies (RAC) as it is known in Quebec, Canada, or Prior Learning Assessment (PLA), requires a learner to engage in retrospective thought about their learning path, their learning style and their experiential knowledge. This process of critical self-reflection and rigorous analysis by the learner of their prior…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Immigrants, Competency Based Education, Prior Learning
The Influence of Student Characteristics on the Preferred Ways of Learning of Online College Students: An Examination of Cultural Constructs
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Barril, Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The ongoing popularity and increased availability of online college courses and programs has attracted a greater diversity of students. Along with continued female-majority enrollment, increasing numbers of students of traditional college age and students from a variety of ethnicity groups are taking online courses. The prevailing guiding…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, College Students, Online Courses, Preferences
Exploring Faculty Beliefs about Student Learning and Their Role in Instructional Decision-Making
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Hora, Matthew T. – Review of Higher Education, 2014
This study utilizes theory from situated cognition to investigate faculty beliefs about student learning and their influence on teaching decisions. Results of interviews with and observations of 56 science and math faculty found that the two most common beliefs are: (a) students learn best through repeated practice, and (b) students have different…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Decision Making, Teaching Methods
How Can an Understanding of Cognitive Style Enable Trainee Teachers to Have a Better Understanding of Differentiation in the Classroom?
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Evans, Carol; Waring, Michael – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2011
The relationship between cognitive style and trainee teacher conceptions of differentiation was studied to develop appropriate scaffolding of their learning. 149 trainee teachers enrolled on 1 year postgraduate initial teacher education (ITE) programmes at two UK universities completed the Cognitive Style Index (Allinson and Hayes, "Journal…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Style, Prior Learning, Content Analysis
The Role of Self-Regulated Learning in Explaining Examination Performance of College Students in First-Semester General Chemistry
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Beckley, Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many college students struggle with first-semester general chemistry. Prior studies have shown that a student's prior knowledge of chemistry, a cognitive factor, does not account for the total variance when measured by examination scores. This study explored the role of self-regulated learning (SRL) to identify the degree of success or failure of…
Descriptors: College Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Prior Learning
Respiration--That's Breathing Isn't It?
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Seymour, Jerry; Longden, Bernard – Journal of Biological Education, 1991
Reports results of procedures directed at isolating and identifying students' difficulties in comprehending the concepts involved in lessons about gas exchange and respiration. Indicates that pupils (n=137) had deficient understanding of prerequisite concepts and tended to operate at the concrete operational level, whereas the highly abstract…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests