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David Slavit; Amber Simpson; Kristin Lesseig – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
We articulate a framework for delineating student thinking in active, STEM-rich learning environments. Researchers have identified ways of reasoning that relate to specific content areas and practices within each of the STEM disciplines. However, attempts at characterizing student thinking in transdisciplinary STEM environments remains in its…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Learning Processes, Thinking Skills
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Aziz Shekh-Abed – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Self-knowledge is an important element of metacognition. It encompasses understanding one's own strengths and weaknesses and includes belief and self-assessment of one's capacity to perform a task. Cognitive skills comprise a range of mental processes, such as attention, memory, problem solving, systems thinking, abstract thinking, and critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 12, Metacognition
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Haber, Amanda S.; Sobel, David M.; Weisberg, Deena Skolnick – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
We investigated how young children evaluate disagreements between two people and whether formal education affects this capacity. We compared 120 first graders tested during the 2014-2015 academic year, who received a direct instruction-based curriculum, with 112 first graders tested in the same school system during the 2016-2017 academic year, who…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning, Inquiry
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Azeneth Patiño; María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya; Gerardo Ibarra-Vazquez – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2023
Complex thinking is a desired competency in 21st-century university students, so technology-based teaching and learning strategies must be carefully considered when training them in complex reasoning skills. This systematic review aims to map research on the use of teaching and learning strategies supported by technology to enhance complex…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Thinking Skills
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Insani, Metri Dian; Pratiwi, Novida; Muhardjito, M. – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2019
This research was aimed at profiling student's thinking skills in dealing with Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions based on Marzano taxonomy by referring to 13 indicators. This pre-experimental research employed pretest-posttest design. The indicators included were comparison, classification, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning,…
Descriptors: Biology, Taxonomy, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Garvey, Gregory P. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
This reflection paper argues that the design and development of digital games teach essential 21st century skills. Intrinsic to application and game development is design thinking. Design thinking requires iterative development, which demands creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. Students are engaged through learning by doing in both…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Design, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking
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Muir, Tracey; Beswick, Kim; Callingham, Rosemary; Jade, Katara – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2016
This paper presents the findings of a small-scale study that investigated the issues and challenges of teaching and learning about quantitative reasoning (QR) within a project-based learning (PjBL) context. Students and teachers were surveyed and interviewed about their experiences of learning and teaching QR in that context in contrast to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Problem Solving
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Chamberland, Martine; Mamede, Sílvia; St-Onge, Christina; Setrakian, Jean; Schmidt, Henk G. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Educational strategies that promote the development of clinical reasoning in students remain scarce. Generating self-explanations (SE) engages students in active learning and has shown to be an effective technique to improve clinical reasoning in clerks. Example-based learning has been shown to support the development of accurate knowledge…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Educational Strategies, Active Learning
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Chen, Juanjuan; Wang, Minhong; Dede, Chris; Grotzer, Tina A. – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The use of external representations has the potential to facilitate inquiry learning, especially hypothesis generation and reasoning, which typically present difficulties for students. This study describes a novel three-dimensional cognitive mapping (3DCM) approach that supports inquiry learning by allowing learners to combine the information on a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Inquiry, Active Learning, Abstract Reasoning
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McElvain, Cheryl M.; Smith, Heidi A. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
The issues that prompt this study are based on current research indicating the positive effects of inquiry learning on the cognitive development of children. The purpose of this case study was to understand the effects of inquiry learning on the academic achievement and bilingual verbal ability of 5th grade bilingual students in a French/English…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development