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Paris, Joseph H.; Beckowski, Catherine Pressimone; Fiorot, Sara – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of higher education institutions adopted test-optional admissions policies. The proliferation of these policies and the criticism of standardized admissions tests as unreliable predictors of applicants' postsecondary educational promise have prompted the reimagining of evaluative methodologies in…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals), College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
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Shujun Dong; Ran Zhi; Feng Gan – European Journal of Education, 2025
As educational paradigms continue to evolve in response to technological advancements, there is growing interest in interdisciplinary approaches that bridge the gap between STEM and the arts. One such emerging area is the integration of robotics into art education, which holds the potential to enrich learning experiences and foster a range of…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Art Education, Constructivism (Learning)
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Teo Paoletti; Kevin C. Moore; Madhavi Vishnubhotla – The Mathematics Educator, 2024
Supporting young students in developing meanings for the set-theoretic function definition is emphasized in 6th-12th grade curricula around the world. In prior work, we have highlighted how covariational reasoning supports college students in constructing relationships that afford considering mathematical properties important for a set-theoretic…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Thinking Skills
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Ninnuan, Kanjana; Wongsaphan, Montree – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This study investigates the implementation of the learning management model based on cognitive development theory to enhance mathematical problem-solving ability for Prathomsuksa 6 students. The sample group assigned by cluster random sampling was thirty Prathomsuksa 6 students of Chumchon Yot Kaeng Songkhro School. The research instruments…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Problem Solving, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Instruction
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Lars Wallner – Classroom Discourse, 2024
This article explores booktalk situations in which student teachers discuss a narrative text and construct in situ accounts of learning when recalling their reading. This study contributes to knowledge about the role of narrative fiction in general educational practice, as well as to the understanding of situated constructions of learning. Video…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Fiction, Books, Student Teachers
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Cocieru, Ovidiu C.; Katz, Matthew; McDonald, Mark A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2020
The constructivist theory of learning states that student interaction with peers leads to cognitive development. Meanwhile, scholars claimed that traditional management classes that use group work do not promote student interaction effectively. Despite this concern, student interaction has not been compared between different courses. In the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Classroom Environment, Management Development
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Sandoval, William A.; Greene, Jeffrey A.; Bråten, Ivar – Review of Research in Education, 2016
Epistemic cognition is the thinking that people do about what and how they know. Education has long been concerned with promoting reflection on knowledge and processes of knowing, but research into epistemic cognition began really in the past half century, with a tremendous expansion in the past 20 years. This review summarizes the broad range of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Social Cognition, Reflection, Educational Research
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Glaab, Sabine; Heyne, Thomas – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
A total of 268 primary school children (age 8.75 ± 0.65) spent one day at a wildlife park attending environmental education aiming at high cognitive achievement and motivation alongside maintained discipline. To accomplish this at an out-of-school learning setting, we compared our preferred 'guided learning at workstations' (G) combining the…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students
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Ephraim Zulu; Theodore Haupt; Vittorio Tramontin – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
The aim of the research was to explore the levels of cognitive loading induced by certain tenets of constructivist pedagogy namely self-directed learning complex questions and zone of proximal development. The study also sought to investigate the associations between these constructs and with cognitive loading and complex questions. Data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Management, College Students, Independent Study
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Isik, Ayse Derya – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
Over the course of history, the structures of societies have changed at certain periods depending on technological and scientific developments. In today's societies, such mental processes as information processing and production have become prominent and the educational systems are revised according to the constructivist approach, which focuses on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Prior Learning
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Nurzaman – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Model of moral cultivation in MTsN Bangunharja done using three methods, classical cultivation methods, extra-curricular activities in the form of religious activities, scouting, sports, and Islamic art, and habituation of morals. Problem base learning models in MTsN Bangunharja applied using the following steps: find the problem, define the…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Models, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
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Dastpak, Mehdi; Behjat, Fatemeh; Taghinezhad, Ali – Online Submission, 2017
This study aimed at investigating the similarities and differences between Vygotsky's perspectives on child language development with nativism and behaviorism. Proposing the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development, Vygotsky emphasized the role of collaborative interaction, scaffolding, and guided participation in language learning. Nativists, on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Theories, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Collett, Karen; Green, Lena – South African Journal of Education, 2017
The current emphasis on curriculum leadership implies the need to update school leaders' pedagogical knowledge. This paper will interest local and international readers because it highlights both essential content and the importance of the pedagogy employed to convey it. The study explored the initial effects of an introduction to Cognitive…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Cognitive Development, Experiential Learning
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Berthiaume, Vincent G.; Shultz, Thomas R.; Onishi, Kristine H. – Cognition, 2013
How do children come to understand that others have mental representations, e.g., of an object's location? Preschoolers go through two transitions on verbal false-belief tasks, in which they have to predict where an agent will search for an object that was moved in her absence. First, while three-and-a-half-year-olds usually fail at approach…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Young Children
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Chen, Peng; Schmidtke, Carsten – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Humanism has never been able to establish a firm place in technical education, which remains predominantly pragmatist in response to industry needs, certification requirements and educational standardisation. However, after a period of decline, humanism has made somewhat of a comeback as part of the movement toward student-centred education.…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Technical Education, Postsecondary Education, Humanism
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