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Diksha Kharbanda; Ritesh Khunyakari – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Recent literature emphasises the role of exploration, designerly play, creative thinking, and handling of materials in the beginning years of learning. This paper reports findings from a study involving 24 children (aged 4 to 10 years), where the researchers engaged with four-story contexts (tasks) that had embedded problem scenarios. In response…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Design, Children, Play
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Hariyanto; Hikamah, Siti Roudlotul; Maghfiroh, Nasruliyah Hikmatul; Priawasana, Endra – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
This study aims to test the discovery model integrated with the reading, questioning, and answering (RQA) model. This research is a quasi-study which involves the second semester XI grade students of state senior high school (SMA) Negeri in Situbondo as subjects. The number of students who studied was 160 people from four different classes in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Discovery Learning, Cultural Influences
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Nusantari, Elya; Abdul, Aryati; Damopolii, Insar; Alghafri, Ali Salim Rashid; Bakkar, Bakkar Suleiman – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The research aims to develop an instructional tool based on Discovery Learning (DL) combined with a Metacognitive Knowledge Strategy (MKS) to enhance students' Critical Thinking Skills (CTSs). In doing so, the study employed a Research and Development (R&D) method to develop such a tool. The developed instructional tool was tested for its…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Renkl, Alexander – Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
In discussions about how to best foster principle-based cognitive skills, there are typically two points of dissent among researchers in the field of learning and instruction: First, should information be provided, as typical of direct instruction, or should this information be generated by the students, as typical of guided discovery or inquiry…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Concept Formation
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Suardana, I. Nyoman; Redhana, I. Wayan; Sudiatmika, A. A. Istri Agung Rai; Selamat, I. Nyoman – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This research aimed at describing the effectiveness of the local culture-based 7E learning cycle model in improving students' critical thinking skills in chemistry learning. It was an experimental research with post-test only control group design. The population was the eleventh-grade students of senior high schools in Singaraja, Indonesia. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Chemistry, Science Process Skills
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Antle, Alissa N. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2013
In order to better understand how to design hands-on child-computer interaction, we explore how different styles of interaction facilitate children's thinking while they use their hands to manipulate objects. We present an exploratory study of children solving a spatial puzzle task. We investigate how the affordances of physical, graphical…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Hands on Science, Cognitive Style, Problem Solving
Glaser, Robert; And Others – 1991
This study seeks to establish which scientific reasoning skills are primarily domain-general and which appear to be domain-specific. The subjects, 12 university undergraduates, each participated in self-directed experimentation with three different content domains. The experimentation contexts were computer-based laboratories in d.c. circuits…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Discovery Learning, Heuristics, Higher Education
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Maxim, George – Science and Children, 1997
Supports the approach for young children that allows them to perform actions on objects and observe the reactions. Describes some techniques to use to encourage an inquiry approach. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Hands on Science
Stoskopf, Alan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Inquiry-based teaching and assessment approaches are superior to standardized tests for measuring students' progress. Historical thinking skills employed in Leopold von Ranke's 19th-century seminars have been refined to consider point of view, credibility of evidence, historical context, causality, and multiple perspectives--benchmarks of…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Inquiry
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Mayes, Robert L. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Presents a study to determine whether computer use in guided-discovery learning episodes would enhance the problem-solving ability of secondary school students (n=147). Results indicate interaction between low- and middle-level students' mathematical achievement and treatment groups, while high-level students performed well regardless of approach.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Discovery Learning, Heuristics
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Beisenherz, Paul C. – Science and Children, 1991
Discussed is the teaching method called the learning cycle and how it can be incorporated into science activities. Included are examples of how teachers and students can use the learning cycle to produce instructional materials. (KR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Cummings, Alysa – Learning, 1991
Describes discovery learning, a teaching method that encourages students to use inductive reasoning. Students explore and experiment using the skill or idea being taught; they determine rules, make generalizations, and discover concepts. The teacher acts as coach, advisor, and reinforcer. A student page offers a discovery learning game on capital…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Discovery Learning, Educational Games, Elementary Education
Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan – 1998
If the main cause of many students' disinclination to learn is attitude, it follows that the most important educational reform is the restoration of attitudes favorable to learning. This book and its companion workbook are intended to assist teachers in that goal. It helps teachers understand and appraise the negative attitudes that are all too…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Cultural Influences, Discovery Learning
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Mantovani, Bernardo – Biochemical Education, 1995
Argues against the merely descriptive presentation frequently used in teaching biochemistry and in favor of a constructivist approach called heuristic-teleonomic, which unites the process of discovery with adaptation to functional ends. Discusses difficulties inherent to the nature of biochemistry, including the conflict between acquiring…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Biochemistry, Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning)
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Carroll, William M.; Porter, Denise – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
Describes teaching strategies in which children are encouraged to develop computational procedures that are meaningful to them. Authors state that classroom observation reveals most primary students to be capable of developing their own accurate solution procedures for multi-digit addition and subtraction as well as for simple multiplication and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Associative Learning, Computation, Cooperative Learning
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