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Cho, Hyeyoung – ReCALL, 2016
Collaborative learning has attracted attention as pedagogic mediation to assist learners' corpus consultation, but some studies have pointed to negative aspects of collaboration. Based on the two sides of collaboration in language learning, this study presents a qualitative investigation of different effects of collaboration depending on task…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Research Methodology, Discovery Processes, Case Studies
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Star, Jon R. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study evaluated whether schema-based instruction (SBI), a promising method for teaching students to represent and solve mathematical word problems, impacted the learning of percent word problems. Of particular interest was the extent that SBI improved high- and low-achieving students' learning and to a lesser degree on the indirect effect of…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Problem Solving, Grade 7, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Young, Richard – 1968
A study of the meanings of "generation," a popular term in current rhetorical jargon, reveals important developments in the art and theory of rhetoric. As now used, it refers without clear distinction to rule-governed, heuristic, and trial-and-error procedures. The rule-governed procedures of transformation grammar are being employed to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Processes, Generative Grammar, Problem Solving
RAZIK, TAHER A. – 1965
COMPILED FOR CONVENIENT REFERENCE ARE 4,176 TITLES IN THE FIELD OF CREATIVITY AND RELATED AREAS. INCLUDED ARE DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED FROM 1744 TO DECEMBER 1964, AS WELL AS MANY UNPUBLISHED THESES, DISSERTATIONS AND SPEECHES. ALSO INCLUDED ARE FRENCH, ITALIAN, AND RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS ALONG WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, WHENEVER AVAILABLE.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Bibliographies, Creativity
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Berryman, Jennifer – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2006
Introduction: Reports findings from research in progress investigating judgment and decision making during information seeking in the workplace, in particular, the assessment of enough information. Characteristics of this judgment and the role of context in shaping it are framed against theories of human judgment and decision making. Method:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Government Employees, Public Sector