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Franks, Bridget A. – 1993
A study examined how students make specific inferences from prose passages. Subjects, 44 first- and second-year college students and 40 seventh-grade students, read 3 prose passages, each containing 6 inferential questions. The premise information for each question was expressed in one of six deductive inference forms: transitive, exclusive…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Sophomores, Comparative Analysis, Deduction
Ebert, Christine L.; Risacher, Billie F. – 1996
This study examined factors that influenced the acquisition of pedagogical content knowledge for two groups of prospective secondary mathematics teachers (undergraduate mathematics majors and post-graduate scientists and engineers seeking mathematics certification) in the content domain of functions and graphs. Both groups, enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Mathematics Education
Green, Kathleen – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1996
Nontraditional education credits can be earned in many ways. Some methods of assessing learning for credit are objective, such as standardized texts; others are more objective, such as a review of life experiences. Options for earning a high school diploma without spending 4 years in a classroom are as follows: General Educational Development…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Credits
Long, Donna Reseigh – 1991
A study investigated what conscious listening strategies second language learners use when listening to authentic texts. Subjects were six college students of intermediate Spanish. They listened to three authentic audio and three authentic video texts. The introspective commentaries of the subjects on one of the video texts are discussed here.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Myers, Charles B. – 1993
This paper describes the third phase of a multi-year study that has been assessing professional knowledge and perceptions of beginning teacher education students. This phase of the study reports on responses to a questionnaire designed to compare student knowledge across cohorts and institutions. The data reported here are from a total of 291…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Holt-Reynolds, Diane – 1991
Preservice teachers enter formal studies of teaching with an array of personal history-based beliefs and about teaching, classrooms, and students. This report traces the interactions between preservice teachers' personal history-based lay knowledge and their decisions about the potential value of coursework-based principles of content area reading…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Laney, James D. – 1983
Use of metacognitive strategies, creative problem solving, and creative thinking techniques in intermediate grade writing instruction can promote students' thinking and creativity. Metacognitive strategies can help students attack the writing task in an orderly fashion. Answering specific questions for descriptive, expository, narrative, or…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Alvarez, Marino C.; And Others – 1990
Case-based learning is one method that can be used to foster critical thinking and schema construction. Students need to be provided with problem solving lessons in meaningful learning contexts for critical thinking to take place. In order for schema construction to occur, a framework needs to be provided that helps readers to elaborate upon new…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Classroom Environment, Critical Thinking, English Instruction
Read, John – 1990
This paper, a discussion of the use of written tests to assess second language proficiency and achievement, considers what constitutes a valid writing test task and addresses three questions: (1) To what extent is performance influenced by prior knowledge about the topic? (2) Does it make a difference how the writing task is specified on the test…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Schmidt, Henk G.; Patel, Vimla L. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which problem analysis facilitated the subsequent processing of expository text, both for novices and a comparison group. A text on osmosis consisted of six-pages and was used as reading material. The ninth-grade students were considered novices because they were unfamiliar with the…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries
Sesow, Bill – 1989
If students are able to relate what they learn in school to experiences they have outside the classroom, they will become better critical thinkers. This paper suggests a model for teachers to use in aiding such "transfer" of knowledge from the classroom to the student's past or future experiences. By maintaining a profile of the student's…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
Lehmann, Christine H. – 1987
This study was designed to identify characteristics of college freshmen taking mathematics courses. Students enrolled in basic algebra courses at a regional campus of a large midwestern university participated in the study. Students were administered an instrument which included a "math autobiography," the Adult Mathematics Expectation Scale…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Algebra, College Freshmen, College Mathematics
Orasanu, Judith, Ed. – 1986
In response to recommendations by a National Institute of Education (NIE) planning group to the effect that NIE should support efforts to understand the cognitive processes involved in acquiring basic reading skills and in comprehending linguistic messages, this book summarizes what has been learned about reading comprehension in the decade since…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education
Barrett, Gill – 1985
British students in four age groups--4 to 5, 7 to 8, 11 to 12, and 15 to 16 years old--were observed in their classrooms in order to explore the relationships among the learner, knowledge, and thinking, and the role that writing plays in what is learned. In the infant classroom, writing was quite visible in the form of labels, questions,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cognitive Development
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) creativity as a mediating variable in inferential reading comprehension; (2) teacher questioning and student response interaction during portions of reading…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation