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Mearns, Tessa; de Graaff, Rick; Coyle, Do – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been said to increase not only foreign language proficiency but also learner motivation (Coyle, D., P. Hood, and D. Marsh. 2010. "CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). In contexts where CLIL is elective, however, the question can be…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, Course Content
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Gubbels, Joyce; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – High Ability Studies, 2018
Intellectual abilities are consistently found to be associated to child functioning. To date, however, it is unclear how varying intellectual profiles relate to differential aspects of child functioning. We screened 513 fifth-grade children on their intellectual abilities and selected three groups of gifted children, scoring in the top 10%:…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Short Term Memory, Verbal Ability, Self Concept
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Loyens, Sofie M. M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P.; Schmidt, Henk G. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2007
The present studies were conducted to investigate students' conceptions of distinct constructivist assumptions. To that end, a questionnaire was developed containing statements about four constructivist assumptions: The importance of knowledge construction, cooperative learning, self-regulation, and the use of authentic problems together with…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Models, Factor Structure, Learning Motivation