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Wang, Bo; Ginns, Paul; Mockler, Nicole – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Cognitive load theory's incorporation of evolutionary perspectives has generated several instructional designs based on movement, including the tracing effect, occurring when learners benefit from explicit instructions to trace out specific elements of lesson materials with the index finger. Historical descriptions of children's tracing behaviours…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Imagination, Prior Learning
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Flores González, Macarena; Vandebrouck, Fabrice; Vivier, Laurent – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
Our work focuses on the transition from high school to university in the field of calculus. In France, recursive sequences are studied as one of the classical exercises in both institutions. Their studies use different theorems and notions, such as functions, convergence, monotonicity, induction, etc. The work expected at this transition requires…
Descriptors: Calculus, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Study
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Gray, Maureen E.; Holyoak, Keith J. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2021
Analogy is a powerful tool for fostering conceptual understanding and transfer in STEM and other fields. Well-constructed analogical comparisons focus attention on the causal-relational structure of STEM concepts, and provide a powerful capability to draw inferences based on a well-understood source domain that can be applied to a novel target…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Instructional Effectiveness, Theory Practice Relationship, STEM Education
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Gregory S. Watson; Jolanta A. Watson – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
With many universities now admitting students into their science programs with little or no prior knowledge of the relevant field, significant challenges arise in the way these fields are introduced. Challenges mount with various preconceived ideas regarding the levels of difficulty, thus necessitating introductory concepts be presented in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Prior Learning, Knowledge Level, Universities
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Bosshardt, William – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
"The Cognitive Challenges of Effective Teaching," by Chew and Cerbin (2021) outlines a framework of nine cognitive challenges to student learning. The framework can help economic educators better design and describe new ideas for teaching in economics. In this article, the author highlights and expands upon ideas that are particularly…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Instructional Design, Educational Research, Research Needs
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Chew, Stephen L.; Cerbin, William J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2021
The authors describe a research-based conceptual framework of how students learn that can guide the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of teaching practice. The framework consists of nine interacting cognitive challenges that teachers need to address to enhance student learning. These challenges include student mental mindset,…
Descriptors: Learning, Cognitive Structures, Metacognition, Self Management
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Schmidt, Henk G.; Mamede, Silvia – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2020
In this article, the contributions of cognitive psychology to research and development of medical education are assessed. The cognitive psychology of learning consists of activation of prior knowledge while processing new information and elaboration on the resulting new knowledge to facilitate storing in long-term memory. This process is limited…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Medical Education, Educational Research, Educational Change
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Lupo, Sarah M.; Berry, Alicia; Thacker, Emma; Sawyer, Amanda; Merritt, Joi – Reading Teacher, 2020
Building content knowledge alongside the task of increasing literacy skills has become a goal for many elementary classrooms. Selecting and implementing texts for the literacy block that both increase content knowledge and develop students' literacy skills alongside increasing motivation for reading is a daunting task. The authors share a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Teachers, Literacy Education, Reading Material Selection
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Wei, Yan; Spear-Swerling, Louise; Mercurio, Mia – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
Students may lack the motivation to read for many reasons, including inadequate access to interesting texts, limited encouragement to read for pleasure from adults, instructional practices that do not foster engagement in learning, or a history of reading failure. This article focuses on students with reading disabilities who may have a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Disabilities, Reading Motivation, Reading Difficulties
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Walkington, Candace; Bernacki, Matthew L. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
Instruction can be made relevant to students when it draws upon and utilizes their interests, experiences, and "funds of knowledge" in productive ways to support classroom learning. This approach has been referred to as "context personalization." In this paper, we discuss the cognitive basis of personalization interventions,…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Instructional Design, Relevance (Education), Cognitive Processes
Morrow, C.; McIntyre, N. – Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2019
"Autism at-a-Glance" is a series of practitioner and family-friendly documents created by the Center on Secondary Education for Students with ASD (CSESA) designed for high school staff members supporting students on the autism spectrum, as well as family members of adolescents with ASD. The purpose of the "Autism at-a-Glance"…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, High School Students, Adolescents
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2014
Active service members and veterans are pursuing postsecondary degrees in record numbers today, due in large part to the GI Bill education benefits that can cover much or all of the cost. An important tool for helping service members and veterans succeed in postsecondary education is prior learning assessment (PLA). PLA is a process that includes…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Veterans, College Students, Prior Learning
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Chatzopoulou, D. I.; Economides, A. A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
This paper presents Programming Adaptive Testing (PAT), a Web-based adaptive testing system for assessing students' programming knowledge. PAT was used in two high school programming classes by 73 students. The question bank of PAT is composed of 443 questions. A question is classified in one out of three difficulty levels. In PAT, the levels of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Prior Learning, Programming, High School Students
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Feldon, David F. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
There are two threads linking effective lectures and effective technology use. The first is consideration of what students bring to the table in terms of goals, interests, and prior knowledge. The second is the deliberate management of the opportunities for students to engage with content in order to focus their investment of mental effort on key…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Lecture Method
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Torff, Bruce – Learning Inquiry, 2008
In a line of research employing a survey instrument, the "Critical Thinking Belief Appraisal", teachers supported critical-thinking (CT) activities more for high- than low-advantage learners, likely exacerbating a "rigor gap" implicated in persistent achievement gaps. Such beliefs were less likely to be espoused by expert teachers than randomly…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Prior Learning, Field Experience Programs, Critical Thinking
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