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Christof Keebaugh; Emily Marshman; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
We discuss an investigation of student sensemaking and reasoning in the context of degenerate perturbation theory (DPT) in quantum mechanics. We find that advanced undergraduate and graduate students in quantum physics courses often struggled with expertlike sensemaking and reasoning to solve DPT problems. The sensemaking and reasoning were…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Quantum Mechanics, Teaching Methods, Physics
Kimberly Vo; Mahbub Sarkar; Paul J. White; Elizabeth Yuriev – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Despite problem solving being a core skill in chemistry, students often struggle to solve chemistry problems. This difficulty may arise from students trying to solve problems through memorising algorithms. Goldilocks Help serves as a problem-solving scaffold that supports students through structured problem solving and its elements, such as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Chemistry, Science Instruction
Latipah, Eva – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
This phenomenological study aims to examine the motives of the hafizh (The Qur'an memorizer), the self-regulation of the hafizh, and the spiritual experiences of the hafizh. The participants of this research were 10 students who had memorized the Qur'an at least 15 juz (chapter). Data collection was carried out by in-depth interviews and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Islam, Religious Factors, Memorization
Baars, Martine; Wijnia, Lisette; de Bruin, Anique; Paas, Fred – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
Research has shown a bi-directional association between the (perceived) amount of invested effort to learn or retrieve information (e.g., time, mental effort) and metacognitive monitoring judgments. The direction of this association likely depends on how learners allocate their effort. In self-paced learning, effort allocation is usually data…
Descriptors: Correlation, Individual Power, Self Management, Learning Processes
Kikas, Eve; Mädamürk, Kaja; Palu, Anu – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Math is a difficult subject with which many upper middle-school students struggle. In addition to knowledge, skills, and motivation, effective learning strategies play an important role in learning math. Aims: This study aimed to examine the effects of comprehension-oriented learning strategies (perceptual and abstract grouping of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Comprehension, Learning Strategies
Beckley, Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many college students struggle with first-semester general chemistry. Prior studies have shown that a student's prior knowledge of chemistry, a cognitive factor, does not account for the total variance when measured by examination scores. This study explored the role of self-regulated learning (SRL) to identify the degree of success or failure of…
Descriptors: College Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Prior Learning
Lopez, Enrique J.; Nandagopal, Kiruthiga; Shavelson, Richard J.; Szu, Evan; Penn, John – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
This study sought to identify ethnically diverse students' study strategies in organic chemistry and their relationships to course outcomes. Study diaries, concept maps, and problem sets were used to assess study outcomes. Findings show that students engage in four commonly used reviewing-type strategies, regardless of ethnic group affiliation.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Diaries
Callingham, Rosemary – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2008
Recent international studies have highlighted the success of students from Hong Kong in mathematics and problem-solving, and have begun to suggest some of the factors associated with this success. Other studies have suggested that Hong Kong students are averse to risk-taking, favouring memorisation and imitation in their solution strategies. Year…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mental Computation, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction

Sylwester, Robert – Educational Leadership, 1985
Research identifies two interrelated memories--one that retains facts and symbols and one that retains motor and problem-solving skills. These and other findings challenge educators to determine what students should memorize, to help them move from random memorization to creating useful concepts, and to teach students to use memory in problem…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Strategies, Encoding (Psychology), Learning Processes

Whitebread, David – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1999
Reports on two related studies intended to explore the interactions among children's metacognitive abilities, their working memory capacity, the development and selection of strategies, and their performance on problem-solving tasks. Explains that in study 1 children performed a reclassification task, and in study 2 children performed a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
Chi, Michelene T. H. – Human Development, 1985
Explanations for memory development have tended to focus on acquistion of general strategies and metaknowledge. Recently, emphasis has been given to the knowledge base as a whole, including general world-knowledge and domain-specific knowledge and procedures. Evidence is presented from the memory development literature showing why strategies and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Rafoth, Mary Ann; DeFabo, Leonard – 1990
This monograph reviews the research findings related to study skills and provides a limited number of examples. The monograph emphasizes the relationship of information processing theory to effective teaching and learning, and details the growth of interest in metacognition. It reviews existing programs that teach study skills and discusses the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Study, Information Processing