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Direct linkNational Academies Press, 2018
There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition" was published and its…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Environment, Brain, Cultural Influences
Haun, Daniel B. M.; Rapold, Christian J.; Janzen, Gabriele; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognition, 2011
The present paper explores cross-cultural variation in spatial cognition by comparing spatial reconstruction tasks by Dutch and Namibian elementary school children. These two communities differ in the way they predominantly express spatial relations in language. Four experiments investigate cognitive strategy preferences across different levels of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Usage, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences
Jukes, Matthew C. H.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: The use of cognitive tests is increasing in Africa but little is known about how such tests are affected by the great ethnic and linguistic diversity on the continent. Aim: To assess ethnic and linguistic group differences in cognitive test performance in the West African country of the Gambia and to investigate the sources of these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Ability, Ethnic Groups, Cultural Differences
Phillipson, Sivanes; Phillipson, Shane N. – Educational Psychology, 2007
The aim of the present study was to test the hypotheses that parents' academic expectations, their perception of children's cognitive ability, and their degree of involvement at home and school would predict children's academic achievement, and that there would be important differences in this achievement as a consequence of differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Cultural Differences, Cognitive Ability
