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Fordyce, Derek – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1986
Engineering education is viewed as the development of the quality of thinking in students, and the implications of this approach for student assessment are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Objectives, Engineering Education, Higher Education
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Atkin, Eugene – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 1999
Describes a project undertaken to create survey items that will identify the dominant learning stages of community college students. Utilizes the first three stages of Baxter-Magolda's (1992) four-stage model, focusing on ways of knowing likely to be found among students in the first half of undergraduate bachelor's degree programs. (VWC)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes
Lazear, David G. – 1992
Over the past 50 years, brain researchers have stated that human beings probably use less than 1 percent of the brain's potential, and research findings about human intelligence have transformed almost all previous definitions of intelligence. This booklet addresses the following key findings in intelligence research: intelligence is not fixed or…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions