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Jokhadze, Lali – 2002
This paper discusses the establishment of a connection between cognitive concepts and knowledge acquired through English-as-a-Second-Language teaching and learning. Modern thinking focuses on effective application of common global knowledge and language skills appropriate for culturally diverse students. The article suggests that a cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Consciousness Raising
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Pair, Rob le – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses politeness strategies used by native and Dutch speakers of Spanish, contrasting the act of making requests by these two groups of speakers. One of the article's conclusions states that native speakers of Spanish are more direct in their requests, and that nonnative speakers attempt to sound less face-threatening and less offensive. (23…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
Ballantyne, Peter – Compare, 2002
Introduces recent trends in international development cooperation. Argues that applying these trends to information and communications technologies (ICTs) would make them more effective, empowering, and efficient. Presents current strategies of the International Institute for Communication and Development to illustrate applications of these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Communications, Comparative Education, Development Communication
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Noce, G.; And Others – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Investigates commonsense knowledge schemes connecting the elements weight, air, and gravity to the phenomena of free fall of a range of students from primary school children to adults. Finds that majority of people from the secondary education level onwards held alternative schemes. Discusses educational impacts of mass media. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Science, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science
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Johnson, Scott P.; Aslin, Richard N. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined perception of object unity in partial occlusion in 72 infants. Recorded how long subjects looked at a display of complete and incomplete rods. In test and control conditions, infants looked longer at broken rods than at complete rods, suggesting that infants' cognitive, visual, or attentional skills may be insufficient to support…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Levstik, Linda S. – Social Studies, 1995
Maintains that children's ability to understand and use narrative precedes their ability to understand and use other genres. Asserts that the link between history and narrative is overlooked in discussions about children's historical understanding. Argues that children should use narrative. (CFR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
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Hestenes, David; And Others – Physics Teacher, 1992
Reports the rationale, design, validation, and uses of the "Force Concept Inventory," an instrument to assess the students' beliefs on force. Includes results and implications of two studies that compared the inventory with the "Mechanics Baseline." Includes a copy of the instrument. (MDH)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures
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Beyerbach, Barbara A.; Smith, Joyce M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Concept mapping with "Learning Tool," a computerized mapping program, was used to assess changes in the content and organization of 17 preservice teachers' concept maps for the topic of effective teaching. This study illustrates how concept mapping can be useful in describing students' evolving constructions of knowledge in a particular…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Formation
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Fisher, Kathleen M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Describes the "SemNet" software and some of its uses as an educational and research tool, with emphasis on the similarities and differences between concept mapping and semantic networking. (PR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation
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Sweller, John; Low, Renae – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1992
Reviews research on (1) schemata acquisition while learning mathematics and techniques for detecting schema in mathematics learners; and (2) assessment of the distribution of cognitive resources while learning mathematics that lead to the design of instructional techniques to facilitate schema acquisition. (26 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
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Funkhouse, Charles – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Inservice teachers (n=180) participating in seven mathematical problem-solving workshops were asked to define problem solving. An item analysis of the written responses indicated that 67% of the responses were conceptually or terminologically vague. Precise definitions fell into three categories: strategy-based (12%), skills-based (9%), and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures, Definitions, Elementary School Teachers
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Zevin, Jack; Corbin, Steven S. – Social Studies, 1998
Provides an overview of the research concerning students' perceptions of foreign nations. Compares and contrasts the various measurement techniques including the two most commonly used; semantic differential scales and pair comparisons. Suggests methods for alternative analysis and offers recommendations for future research. Includes a sample…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries, Geography, Knowledge Level
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Marai, Leo; Haihuie, Samuel; Kavanamur, David – Higher Education Policy, 2005
Despite political rhetoric to the contrary, higher education (HE) in Papua New Guinea remains heavily Westernized, resulting in an alienation of HE, and its students, from the development needs of the country. Taking the discipline of psychology as an example, indigenization is not a complete solution to this alienation, since many of the issues…
Descriptors: Psychology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Alienation
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Kelley, Todd D.; Sharif, Nawaz M. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
Higher education has two primary purposes: (1) student learning for the improvement of self, family, employers, and society at large; and (2) knowledge generation, conservation, and dissemination for the advancement of everyone, now and in the future. To succeed in meeting these goals over the long term, colleges and universities: (1) have to be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, Cognitive Structures, Decision Making Skills
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Scheerder, Jeroen; Taks, Marijke; Vanreusel, Bart; Renson, Roland – Sport, Education and Society, 2005
Three issues are put forward with respect to the active participation of young people in leisure-time sports styles. It is considered (a) whether sports participation styles can be detected over the last three decades, (b) whether they have changed in this period of time, and (c) whether traditional parameters understood as structuring and…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Student Participation, Trend Analysis, Foreign Countries
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