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The Best Time to Acquire New Skills: Age-Related Differences in Implicit Sequence Learning across the Human Lifespan
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Janacsek, Karolina; Fiser, Jozsef; Nemeth, Dezso – Developmental Science, 2012
Implicit skill learning underlies obtaining not only motor, but also cognitive and social skills through the life of an individual. Yet, the ontogenetic changes in humans' implicit learning abilities have not yet been characterized, and, thus, their role in acquiring new knowledge efficiently during development is unknown. We investigated such…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Sequential Learning, Age Differences, Reaction Time
Meeting Learning Challenges: Working with Children Who Have Difficulty Following Sequence of Activities and Events
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Greenspan, Stanley I. – Early Childhood Today, 2005
In a question and answer advisory, the author gives advice to a preschool teacher working with a child who is having difficulties with sequencing, or the ability to put together a purposeful pattern of action, behavior, ideas, or thoughts. The author advises that through careful observation and appropriate learning opportunities, the children's…
Descriptors: Sequential Learning, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Classroom Techniques
Individual Differences in Reading.
Ohnmacht, Fred W. – 1969
A strategy for investigating which individual difference variables have transfer value at various stages of acquiring effective reading skills was discussed. Definitions of basic human abilities, including intrinsic and extrinsic individual differences were reviewed. In examining the required subskills in the reading process, it was pointed out…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Learning Processes, Reading Skills, Sequential Learning
Sequencing Intellectual Skill Development in the Social Studies
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Deming, Basil S. – Social Studies, 1976
A model for sequencing intellectual skills through the use of learning hierarchies is provided. Applications of this model to social studies education are included. (DE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes
Learning to Communicate: Babies with Hearing Impairments Make Their Needs Known.
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Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine; Stredler-Brown, Arlene – Volta Review, 1992
This study of 82 hearing-impaired children (ages 6 to 36 months) sought to provide normative data concerning their communication efforts and to document the course of development of these earliest communication efforts. The study found that certain cognitive abilities and strategies are prerequisite to the development of certain language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Hearing Impairments
Effects of Guidance, Sequence, and Attribute-Treatment Interactions on Learning, Retention, and Transfer of Hierarchically Ordered Skills
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White, Richard T. – Instructional Science, 1976
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Discovery Learning, Educational Research, Learning Processes
Developing Skills in the Social Studies.
Kroen, William C., Jr. – 1980
Social studies teachers face pressures from demands for greater emphasis in the areas of multicultural aspects of the world population, expansive technological changes, citizenship and moral education, and accountability for basic competence. The latter demand offers an opportunity to return to the broad perspective of teaching students not "what…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstrations (Educational), Drills (Practice), Elementary Education
Sequential Patterns of Music Instruction and Learning to Use Them.
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Price, Harry E. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1992
Presents experiments on effects of music instruction, teaching practica, feedback from the instructor, and videotaped self-observation on undergraduates' use of complete sequential patterns and components. Focuses on two levels: examination of effects of systematic instructional structures on acquisition of skills and refinement of constructs for…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Feedback, Higher Education, Learning Processes
THE TECHNOLOGY OF MILITARY TRAINING.
WALLIS, D. – 1966
THIS DOCUMENT IS PART OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL AND PERSONNEL RESEARCH IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MANPOWER SYSTEMS, HELD IN BRUSSELS IN 1965. A MODEL ILLUSTRATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED MILITARY INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEM WHICH PROVIDES CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK AND CONTROL OF LEARNING. THE TRAINING COURSE INCLUDES--(1) A CLEAR…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Constructed Response, Educational Technology, Feedback