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McDaniel, Mark A.; Cahill, Michael J.; Frey, Regina F.; Limeri, Lisa B.; Lemons, Paula P. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Previous studies have found that students' concept-building approaches, identified a priori with a cognitive psychology laboratory task, are associated with student exam performances in chemistry classes. Abstraction learners (those who extract the principles underlying related examples) performed better than exemplar learners (those who focus on…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Biology
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Pishghadam, Reza; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study examined the role of metacognition and intelligence in foreign language achievement on a sample of 143 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Participants completed Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices as a measure of intelligence, and Metacognitive Awareness Inventory as a measure of metacognition. Learners' scores at…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Metacognition