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Tóth, Alisa; Molnár, Gyöngyvér; Kárpáti, Andrea – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
Bauhaus, the German arts and crafts college, is 100 years old this year. One of the revolutionary features of its pedagogical programme was the methodology of teaching about colour, elaborated by Johannes Itten and Paul Klee, leading Bauhaus masters, and further developed by their disciples, Joseph Albers and György (George) Kepes. This…
Descriptors: Color, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Riener, Cedar – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
When people perceive the world, what they see is based on the physics of light reflecting off surfaces and entering their eyes. Their brain then processes the raw data so that photoreceptor activity becomes perceptual awareness. Most textbooks and chapters on sensation and perception follow this formula, building student understanding of…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes, Psychology, Memory
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Monteiro, Marta; Ricard, Richard J.; Ratanavivan, Wannigar – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
This pilot study explored the impact of an eight-session attentional skills training (AST) program for elementary-age school children. Twenty-four students, 3rd through 6th grade, participated in guidance sessions involving exposure to mindfulness exercises and video gaming activities designed to challenge visual attention, memory, and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Video Games, Elementary School Students, Pilot Projects
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Westwood, Peter – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2018
This review highlights some areas of current interest in teaching students to spell and how spelling skills develop. The topics covered in the paper include: theories of spelling acquisition, theories guiding effective teaching, the importance of word study approaches across the age range, the influence of technology on learning to spell, spelling…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teaching Methods, Spelling Instruction, English (Second Language)
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López, Miriam Romero; Fernández, Montserrat López; Martínez, María Carmen Pichardo – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: The huge impact of technology in the last few decades, and the ample development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has established them as an essential characteristic of today's society. This vertiginous advance, and the quantity and diversity of changes in knowledge that are being generated, are inducing important…
Descriptors: Neurology, Physiology, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Martín-Lobo, Pilar; Santiago-Ramajo, Sandra; Vergara-Moragues, Esperanza – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2018
Progress in applied neuroscience and neuropsychology in the educational context has revealed efficient methodologies for preventing academic failure and developing the potential of students. The aim of this work is to adopt a neuropsychological perspective to study learning-related differences between students with learning difficulties (LD),…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Neuropsychology, Academic Failure, Learning Problems
Thomas, Michael S. C.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Rogers, Cathy – World Bank, 2020
This report considers the science of adult literacy acquisition, with the goal of identifying principles that may improve the effectiveness of adult literacy programs. We define literacy as a continuum, from emerging literacy, through improving literacy, to fluent literacy and we outline the factors that influence how far along that continuum an…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Program Effectiveness, Skill Development
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Cheng, Yu-Lin – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
English orthographic learning, among Chinese-L1 children who were beginning to learn English as a foreign language, was documented when: (1) "only" visual memory was at their disposal, (2) visual memory and either "some" letter-sound knowledge or "some" semantic information was available, and (3) visual memory,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Storkel, Holly L.; Bontempo, Daniel E.; Pak, Natalie S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: In this study, the authors investigated adult word learning to determine how neighborhood density and practice across phonologically related training sets influence online learning from input during training versus offline memory evolution during no-training gaps. Method: Sixty-one adults were randomly assigned to learn low- or…
Descriptors: Adults, Memory, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Staunaes, Dorthe; Kofoed, Jette – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
Digital video cameras, smartphones, internet and iPads are increasingly used as visual research methods with the purpose of creating an affective corpus of data. Such visual methods are often combined with interviews or observations. Not only are visual methods part of the used research methods, the visual products are used as requisites in…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Visual Literacy, Teaching Methods, Critical Viewing
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Yang, Ling-Yan; Guo, Jian-Peng; Richman, Lynn C.; Schmidt, Frank L.; Gerken, Kathryn C.; Ding, Yi – Educational Psychology Review, 2013
This paper used meta-analysis to synthesize the relation between visual skills and Chinese reading acquisition based on the empirical results from 34 studies published from 1991 to 2011. We obtained 234 correlation coefficients from 64 independent samples, with a total of 5,395 participants. The meta-analysis revealed that visual skills as a…
Descriptors: Memory, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Correlation
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Ypsilanti, Antonia; Vivas, Ana B.; Räisänen, Teppo; Viitala, Matti; Ijäs, Tuula; Ropes, Donald – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
Aging diversity in organizations creates potential challenges, particularly for knowledge management, skills update and skills obsolescence. Intergenerational learning (IGL) involves knowledge building, innovation and knowledge transfer between generations within an organization (Ropes 2011). Serious games refer to the use of computer games in…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Intergenerational Programs, Video Games, Computer Games
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Augustyniak, Sylvana – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
This article, based on my PhD empirical study, was conducted in a qualitative and holistic approach. It had examined how students had used formal and informal strategies, styles and situations while improvising and composing for the research task. Eighteen research groups made up of a total of 40 males and nine females had participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Music, Music Education
Elwinger, Elyda S. – Academic Therapy, 1983
The author discusses the role of educational "crutches" that help elementary learning disabled children in tasks involving spatial orientation, visual perception, and auditory short-term memory. Teachers are cautioned to observe how children act in different situations and to allow them whatever "crutches" are effective. (CL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Memory
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Dooley, Roger P.; Harkins, Larry E. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Attention, Audiovisual Aids, Color, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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