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Direct linkRiddile, Mel – Principal Leadership, 2012
This article presents an interview with Susan Gendron, a policy coordinator at SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium. In this interview, Gendron talks about the Common Core State Standards and their implications for school leaders.
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Interviews, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedAgre, Gene P. – Journal of Thought, 1983
Focusing on the precise grounds on which a person can be said to have solved a problem, six conditions are articulated which govern the application of the concept and its relationship to trying and intention. The "solving" concept is found in synonymous phrases such as "figuring out" and "finding the solution." (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving
Newby, Tim – Performance and Instruction, 1989
Reviews procedures followed during traditional organizational change and identifies factors that lead to increased intrinsic motivation. Topics discussed include problem solving, level of challenge, competence, people as information processors, curiosity, task complexity, the need for organization, and choice in degree of control. (17 references)…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Competence, Curiosity
Peer reviewedMumford, Michael D.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1993
This article examines the relationship of cognitive processing and creativity and argues that educational interventions contribute to the development of creative thinking skills when they provide requisite knowledge structures and stress controlled application of these processes in solving progressively more complex problems. (DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creativity, Difficulty Level
Download full textMacDonald, Susan Peck – 1985
Academic writing is distinguished by its being a problem solving activity, no matter how tentative the solutions. In this regard, writing about literature is a form of academic writing that shares the same assumptions as other academic writing. The problem solving activity of the literary interpreter consists of discovering, preserving, or…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills
Peer reviewedVergnaud, Gerard – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1979
An attempt is made to establish a link between ordinary arithmetical situations and relevant mathematical concepts by the analyzing of complexity of concepts. (MP)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Mathematics
Miller, George A. – 1986
In assessing the quality of science teaching for an effort such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), it is important to understand what is meant by scientific thinking--the search for explanations. Instruction should involve higher-order cognitive skill development, but it is difficult to measure reasoning and understanding…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
