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Mandeville, David; Perks, Lisa; Benes, Sarah; Poloskey, Leah – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to develop a concise composite measure of mindset and intellectual development in order to inform pedagogical strategies to support students' intellectual growth. A development sample of undergraduate students (n = 295) completed the 37-item pilot Mindset and Intellectual Development Scale (MINDS). The dataset was…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Undergraduate Students, Intellectual Development, Student Attitudes
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Rennick, Christopher; Hulls, Carol C. W.; McKay, Kenneth N. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: A semester-long, open-ended design project was implemented to promote intellectual development of first-year students while reinforcing event-driven/procedural programming principles. This paper describes this approach, and an evaluation strategy using Perry's model for intellectual development. The results show that students can…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Engineering Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
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El-Farargy, Nancy – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2010
A group of National Certificate (NC) Health Care students participated in an applications-based chemistry curriculum intervention. In a previous study, results have indicated that learning chemistry through applications helped to improve the perceived relevance and attitudes towards learning the subject. This paper builds on this earlier work and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Attitudes, Chemistry, Intellectual Development
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Grove, Nathaniel P.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2010
We have investigated student difficulties with the learning of organic chemistry. Using Perry's Model of Intellectual Development as a framework revealed that organic chemistry students who function as dualistic thinkers struggle with the complexity of the subject matter. Understanding substitution/elimination reactions and multi-step syntheses is…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Intellectual Development, Learning Problems, Models
Corrigan, Dean – 1965
A primary function of the teacher educator is to use himself, his students, and all the dimensions of teacher education (instructional organization, methods, content, materials, media, and evaluation) only as means for providing opportunities for prospective teachers to become teacher-scholars--unique individuals who can function intelligently in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Media, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods