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Flynn, Kathleen – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
As a pedagogical approach, problem-based learning (PBL) has shown success for average and gifted students (HmeloSiver, 2004) and there are numerous incentives for its implementation in online learning environments (Savid-Baden, 2007; Chernobilsky, Nagarajan, & Hmelo-Silver, 2005). However, little research has been conducted regarding the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Learning Disabilities, Problem Solving
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Goodman, Madeline; Finnegan, Robert; Mohadjer, Leyla; Krenzke, Tom; Hogan, Jacquie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a cyclical, large scale study of adult skills and life experience focusing on education and employment that was developed and organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In the United States, the study was conducted in 2011-12 with a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Freeman, John G.; And Others – 1991
Youth with learning disabilities have high rates of unemployment and underemployment. A specific aspect of the poor social skills of adolescents with learning disabilities is their inability to solve unstructured problems on the job. The PROBE module was designed to help youth with learning disabilities to overcome this problem. PROBE is one of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Employment Problems, Foreign Countries
Campbell, Donald S.; And Others – 1986
Two studies examined the effectiveness of self-instruction training via a specially developed computer program to modify the impulsive problem-solving behavior of 16 deaf and 10 learning disabled (aphasic) adolescents attending two special residential schools in Canada. In the control condition, students learned the Apple LOGO computing language…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conceptual Tempo, Deafness
Winer, Laura R. – 1988
This paper describes the Vitrine 2001, a dynamic multi-machine, multi-software computer-based learning environment which, through its emphasis on problem solving and process learning, takes the learner's interests, competencies, strengths, and weaknesses as its starting point. It is noted that the goal of the project is to undertake research…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education
Morris, Joan – School Guidance Worker, 1980
Students with learning disabilities do not have to be problematic for adults. Adults' frustration does not have to increase these students' problems. Active, positive steps can be taken to lessen children's problems and ease adults' frustration so that the helplessness associated with learning disabilities may gradually disappear. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship