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Yang, Yang – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
Alignment between curriculum standards and teachers' classroom instructional practices is critical in assessing curriculum implementation effectiveness and students' learning. Using a modified version of the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) for music, this study explored the alignment between the enacted curriculum and the national curriculum…
Descriptors: Music Education, Alignment (Education), Psychomotor Skills, Individual Development
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Zito, Angela J. – To Improve the Academy, 2019
This essay argues that description of student learning goals as various "skills" presents a conceptual threshold lying between and connecting routinely dichotomized characterizations of student learning--most notably, "concrete" versus "abstract." Qualitative analysis of instructor interviews shows that…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Language Usage, Skill Development, Learning Processes
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Larsen, Steen Nepper – Education Sciences, 2019
An international consensus seems to have developed in educational research--and among educational planners and policymakers--during the last 10-15 years proclaiming that learning is, and must be, a visible phenomenon. This paper questions this predominant view and serves an assemblage of points offering educational scientists at least four…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Research, Educational Policy, Learning Processes
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Eun, Barohny; Knotek, Steven E. – Research in Education, 2022
A Vygotskian approach to assessment is proposed by invoking the distinction between the development of lower and higher psychological functions. Higher psychological functions are specifically human and develop with the use of cultural tools via mediation. Accordingly, a distinction is made between tests that are based on association, which have…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Teaching Methods
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Pritchard, Duncan – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2013
A certain conception of the relevance of virtue epistemology to the philosophy of education is set out. On this conception, while the epistemic goal of education might initially be promoting the pupil's cognitive success, it should ultimately move on to the development of the pupil's cognitive agency. A continuum of cognitive agency is described,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, Educational Objectives, Cognitive Ability
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Claxton, Guy – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2007
Though it is being widely argued that expanding young people's capacity to learn is a viable and desirable goal of education, it it not always clear what this means, how it is to be achieved, and how the effectiveness of interventions is to be assessed. It is argued that the capacity to learn should be interpreted as a portmanteau term that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Learning Theories, Educational Philosophy, Student Development
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Solleder, Marian K. – Journal of School Health, 1972
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives
McAulay, J. D. – Educ Horiz, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
Gutteridge, Don – Engl Quart, 1970
Suggests concepts useful to English teachers among those discussed by Jerome S. Burner in The Process of Education." (RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives, English Instruction, Language Acquisition
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Drumheller, Sidney J. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1973
A look at how behavioral objectives are related to learning curves. Definitions and major uses are noted. Havighurst's development tasks are presented as a model for providing better retention of learning. Also includes a brief look at the infant science'' of Psychometrics. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives, Learning
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Atherton, Margaret – Educational Theory, 1978
The relationship between knowledge and effective and autonomous thoughts and actions is explored with special regard to implications for educational curriculums and teaching. An educational program that concentrates on rationality without reference to creative autonomy, it is stressed, will impoverish the thinking process. (DS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
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Bruner, Jerome S. – Journal of Social Issues, 1983
In this 1964 paper, Bruner argued for a redefinition of the nature, direction, and aims of education because of increased understanding of man as a species and of individual mental growth, clearer understanding of the educational process, and the changing nature of society. (CMG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Okoro, Daniel; Miller, Larry E. – 1994
A study examined the factors related to learning occurring in an adult education program. A purposeful sample of Ohio counties and 151 participants in a specific 1993-1993 adult education program who self-selected to participate in the study was used. A descriptive ex post facto study design was used. Pretests-posttests were administered to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Cognitive Development
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Montada, Leo – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1989
Asserts that emotions are based on cognitive appraisals of occurrences. Argues that cognitive models have heuristic value for research and practice and examines objections concerning the validity of those models. Discusses the usefulness of these models for several educational and developmental goals. (KO)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Objectives
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Van Passel, F. J. A. – ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 1974
Shows the necessity of foreign language education for cognitive and attitudinal purposes as well as for utilitarian reasons. Foreign language learning/teaching can be of great educational value when it follows the thread of the logical and psychological steps in the creative/discovery procedure. A learning algorithm is mapped on page 61. See FL…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Development, Discovery Learning, Educational Objectives
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