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Peer reviewedBenders, Jean – Educational Leadership, 1971
Descriptors: Children, Creativity, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedMorris, Robert C.; Hamm, Russell – Educational Leadership, 1976
The value of curricular theory lies not in its specificity but in the questions it generates. (MM)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedArmbruster, Bonnie B.; Anderson, Thomas H. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Research on study techniques indicates that any study technique can help if it enables students to process the right information in the right way. Students often have to be carefully trained to use a technique to advantage. Guidelines are provided. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories, Research Utilization, Study Skills
Peer reviewedDavis, Dorothy S.; Schwimmer, Phyllis Chiasson – Educational Leadership, 1981
The Relational Thinking Style (RTS) identifies five generic learning styles: transient, digital, multi-digital, multi-relational, and meta-relational. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedMcKenzie, Gary R. – Educational Leadership, 1980
Teachers can improve student learning by using test-like questions and other systematic procedures derived from learning theory and research. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Improvement, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedHobbs, Nicholas – Educational Leadership, 1980
In his new book, Reuven Feuerstein explains the program he has developed to improve human ability to learn and to solve problems. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Intelligence, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedSchmeck, Ronald R. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Successful students use a learning style that involves thinking deeply about what they are studying. Several teaching techniques that can encourage this are discussed. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedBarbe, Walter B.; Milone, Michael N., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1981
A reply from Barbe and Milone to Dunn and Carbo concerning the latter's comments about their research on modality strengths and preferences. (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedMartin, John Henry – Educational Leadership, 1986
Schools need to press for higher quality software that creatively and richly applies sound educational learning theory in software design. (MD)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, Courseware, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedHart, Leslie A. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Assails schools for rushing into the thinking skills approach without examining advances in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuropsychology, and other brain-related disciplines. Blames the classroom situation itself for forcing teachers into counterproductive, direct teaching methods that don't work. Asserts the need for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedEhrenberg, Sydelle D. – Educational Leadership, 1976
Examines a number of questions related to the role of structure in curriculum development. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20006, single copies, $2.00. (JG)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedHart, Leslie A. – Educational Leadership, 1981
New understandings of the human brain can be used to make quantum jumps in achieved learning. Sweeping changes need to be made in school organization, learning concepts, settings, and techniques. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedDunn, Rita; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1981
Discusses the differences among researchers in learning style definitions, instruments used to identify learning style, and the applications of their research. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Definitions, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBarbe, Walter B.; Milone, Michael N., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Summarizes research findings on relationships among modality strengths, learning, and personal characteristics. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedAstington, Janet Wilde – Educational Leadership, 1998
The "theory of mind" that children acquire in the preschool years provides the conceptual foundation for the metacognitive skills learned in school. At school entry, children's theory of mind is intuitive, embedded in everyday social interaction. Teachers can encourage children to make their understanding explicit by talking about it.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Metacognition, Primary Education
