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Toriyama, Kyoko – 1993
A study investigated whether a classification scheme for learning strategies used in ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) instruction is applicable to strategies used in learning Japanese as a second language. Four metacognitive strategies were examined (directed attention, selective attention, self-monitoring, self-management). Subjects were 30…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classification, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Fleener, M. Jayne – 1993
Current research and learning theory suggest that a hierarchy of proportional reasoning exists that can be tested. Using G. Vergnaud's four complexity variables (structure, content, numerical characteristics, and presentation) and T. E. Kieren's model of rational number knowledge building, an epistemic model of proportional reasoning was…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Education Majors, Elementary Education
Tickoo, Makhan L., Ed. – 1989
A collection of articles on dictionaries for advanced second language learners includes essays on the past, present, and future of learners' dictionaries; alternative dictionaries; dictionary construction; and dictionaries and their users. Titles include: "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; or Vaticinations on the Learners' Dictionary"…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Piland, William E.; Villanueva, Xavier – 1990
A study was conducted to measure faculty perceptions of academic standards and the level of academic intensity in transfer courses. Questionnaires were sent to chief academic officers (CAO's) at 30 community colleges, asking them to distribute five instruments to members of the academic senate and five to instructors who were not members of the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Faculty, College Governing Councils, College Role
Graesser, Arthur C. – 1992
The psychological mechanisms that underlie human question asking and answering during comprehension and complex learning were studied. The transcripts of 83 tutoring sessions on research methods for college students and 22 algebra tutoring sessions for seventh graders were collected and analyzed. It was estimated that student questions were about…
Descriptors: Algebra, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level
Kupari, Pekka, Ed.; Haapasalo, Lenni, Ed. – 1993
This yearbook is the seventh for the Mathematics Education Research in Finland series and contains ten articles presented at the decennial jubilee colloquium. The first three articles discuss Constructivism both in general and with regard to mathematics education. Analysis is directed to the origins of constructivism, to the learning of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Constructivism (Learning), Deduction, Difficulty Level
Merrill, Douglas C.; Reiser, Brian J. – 1994
External representations have a great impact on what and how students learn. One key manner in which environments can operate upon novices' knowledge is through helping them ground their problem solving in an understanding of the situation embodied by the problem. In this paper, students' difficulties in microeconomics problem solving were…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Structures, Diagrams, Difficulty Level
Bock, H. Darrell – 1992
The hardware and software system used to create the National Opinion Research Center/Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (NORC/CRESST) item databases and test booklets for the 12th-grade science assessment are described. A general description of the capabilities of the system is given, with some specific information…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Databases
British Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1983
Arranged into two major parts, the guide offers practical and motivating techniques for teaching secondary art. The first section, a brief curriculum guide, presents a rationale, program goals, learning outcomes, program scope and sequence, course list, and evaluation information. The largest part of the document is a resource guide providing…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Ceramics, Course Objectives
Jacobs, George M. – 1989
A study investigated whether instruction in how to use a dictionary led to improved second language performance and greater dictionary use among English majors (N=54) in a reading and writing course at a Thai university. One of three participating classes was instructed in the use of a monolingual learner's dictionary. A passage correction test…
Descriptors: College Students, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Hedayet, Nagwa – 1990
A study investigated patterns in the apparent syntactic errors of native English-speaking, upper-level learners of Arabic as a foreign language. One hundred writing samples, including summaries, criticisms, and free composition, were gathered from a number of university courses. Error types analyzed included articles, subordinate clauses, two-word…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level
Tommola, Jorma; Hyona, Jukka – 1990
This study investigated the sensitivity of the pupillary response as an indicator of average mental load during three language processing tasks of varying complexity. The tasks included: (1) listening (without any subsequent comprehension testing); (2) speech shadowing (repeating a message in the same language while listening to it); and (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Evens, Martha; And Others – 1986
Advanced learners of second languages and natural language processing systems both demand much more detailed lexical information than conventional dictionaries provide. Text composition, whether by humans or machines, requires a thorough understanding of relationships between words, such as selectional restrictions, case patterns, factives, and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
Nenty, H. Johnson – 1986
The Cattell Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CCFIT) was administered to a large sample of American, Nigerian, and Indian adolescents, and item data were examined for cultural bias. The CCFIT was designed to measure fluid intelligence, which is not influenced by cultural differences. Four different item analysis techniques were used to determine…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Culture Fair Tests
Seymour, Sherrie L.; And Others – 1986
This study investigated the effects of medium of instruction, task difficulty, and gender on continuing motivation. A total of 139 fifth and sixth graders with previous computer experience completed an initial learning task in one of the two media formats (computer or paper/pencil) and under either a hard or easy difficulty level. Students' choice…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Grade 5
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