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Diksha Kharbanda; Ritesh Khunyakari – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Recent literature emphasises the role of exploration, designerly play, creative thinking, and handling of materials in the beginning years of learning. This paper reports findings from a study involving 24 children (aged 4 to 10 years), where the researchers engaged with four-story contexts (tasks) that had embedded problem scenarios. In response…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Design, Children, Play
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Schukajlow, Stanislaw; Kaiser, Gabriele; Stillman, Gloria – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
Mathematical modeling and applications are an important part of curriculum and considered to be important for students' current and future lives. In this contribution, we focus on mathematical modeling from a cognitive prospective. Following embedding the cognitive perspective within the discourse of mathematical modeling, we describe some of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Metacognition, Mathematical Models, Learning Activities
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Kamal Upreti; Virendra Singh Kushwah; Prashant Vats; Md. Shane Alam; Rahul Singhai; Dhyanendra Jain; Akhilesh Tiwari – European Journal of Education, 2024
Students must receive the knowledge and skills they require for succeeding in a constantly changing world. Meeting each student's diverse needs, nevertheless, is difficult. For the purpose to promote student development and improve educational outcomes, this review study attempts to give a thorough conceptual framework for integrating both…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Outcomes of Education, Student Development
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Morón-Monge, Hortensia; García-Carmona, Antonio – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
A qualitative study was made of how the learning-to-learn competence is favoured in prospective primary teachers when they participate in an experimental activity (ExA). The ExA was on the germination of seeds. Its objective was for the prospective teachers to learn how to (i) design and execute a school scientific inquiry, and (ii) reflect…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Primary Education, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes
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Shaw, Stacy T.; Pogossian, Anahit A.; Ramirez, Gerardo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Traditional math instruction that emphasizes procedures and rote memorization is common in math classes, particularly within the United States. Students may be able to perform steps and recite information, but flexible thinking in math is also an important ability. Lay theories assume that extensive experience in math would lead to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving
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Abdulmajeed Alghamdi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Despite the critical role of reasoning in shaping language teaching and learning strategies in higher education, prior studies have either separately examined reasoning or focused on one specific type thereof and language teaching and learning strategies. To address this gap, this study took a comprehensive approach by examining various types of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Arabic
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Sheng-Ming Wang; Muhammad Ainul Yaqin; Vu Hong Lan – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: This research provides insights into the applications of virtual reality (VR) in learning spatial reasoning, which could be utilized and developed in educational frameworks and settings, especially in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM), and other aspects. Background: Spatial reasoning and VR are essential…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Computer Simulation
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Kolburan Geçer, Aynur; Topal, Arzu Deveci – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2023
The aim of this study is to conduct a validity and reliability study for adaptation of the scale of learning strategies (the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire) to Turkish, which was developed by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia and McKeachie (1991) and adapted by Meijs et al. (2019) for distance education students. The Scale of Learning…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Distance Education, Test Construction, Turkish
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M. Syawahid; Nasrun; Rully Charitas Indra Prahmana – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
Mathematically gifted students have a potential for understanding and connecting mathematics concept. Pattern generalization as a part of functional thinking becomes one of the benchmarks for gifted students in mathematics. The mathematics curriculum in Indonesia that has not accommodated the functional thinking ability of elementary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Hadfield, KimberLeigh Felix – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
Undergraduate students tend to struggle with probability in their introductory statistics course. Probability problem solving requires several steps. First, students must make sense of the probability scenario, then determine the appropriate probability rules, and finally, execute the procedures to solve the problem. With no previous exposure to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Probability, Statistics, Introductory Courses
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Sheng-Kuei Hsu; Yuling Hsu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This study was conducted to optimize the designs of learning guides embedded in a computer-based simulation environment. The research was based on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and Cognitive Load Theory. We investigated computer simulations under four conditions that combined representation and imagination learning strategies. This…
Descriptors: Geometry, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics
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Rahman, Muhammad Syarifuddin; Juniati, Dwi; Manuharawati – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
Mathematical proficiency is essential to supporting students' success in learning mathematics. It is the ability to use conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, and productive disposition in problem-solving. Cognitive independence shows students' ability to process information. Meanwhile, motivation…
Descriptors: Geometry, Problem Solving, Mathematics Skills, Learning Motivation
Faizah, Siti; Nusantara, Toto; Sudirman; Rahardi, Rustanto – Online Submission, 2022
Thinking is a tool to construct knowledge in learning mathematics. However, some college students have not been fully aware of the importance of constructing their knowledge. Therefore, this study aims to explore students' thinking processes in completing mathematical proofs through assimilation and accommodation schemes. This research was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Corin D. Mathews – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2025
Background: Base-ten thinking (BTT) -- children's ability to reason in tens and ones is a crucial measure of Foundation Phase learners' mathematical performance in South Africa. Aim: The study looks at the six learners using BTT to solve additive tasks through two different assessments. Setting: Six purposely selected Grade 3 learners in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Task Analysis, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Boser, Ulrich – Educational Leadership, 2019
Although mastering the art of learning how to learn is considered one of the most important skills for young people, few teens know the basics of how to best learn something. And teachers rarely receive training in how to helps students become successful learners. The author describes seven well-supported techniques for learning anything that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Attention
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