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Kercood, Suneeta; Lineweaver, Tara T.; Frank, Colleen C.; Fromm, Erik D. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive flexibility, academic skills, educational trajectories, and career goals of college students with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Participants completed a demographic questionnaire, objective and subjective measures of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Matthews, J. Sharif – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Many adolescent learners have difficulty understanding the relevance of mathematics for their lives. This problem is particularly pernicious among Black and Latino adolescents who often face cultural stigma that can affect their perceived value of mathematics. The present study used concurrent nested mixed methods to explore this issue in 419…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Urban Youth, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Hoorani, Bareerah Hafeez – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2014
This study used an Action Research Method to investigate ways to improve the thinking and reasoning skills of grade eight science students in an under-resourced school in Karachi. The students' rote learning patterns were challenged using the schema provided by Blooms' taxonomy of learning domains. A cooperative learning environment was generated…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Ability, Academic Achievement, Action Research
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Wüstenberg, Sascha; Greiff, Samuel; Vainikainen, Mari-Pauliina; Murphy, Kevin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Changes in the demands posed by increasingly complex workplaces in the 21st century have raised the importance of nonroutine skills such as complex problem solving (CPS). However, little is known about the antecedents and outcomes of CPS, especially with regard to malleable external factors such as classroom climate. To investigate the relations…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Problem Solving, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries
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McElvain, Cheryl M.; Smith, Heidi A. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
The issues that prompt this study are based on current research indicating the positive effects of inquiry learning on the cognitive development of children. The purpose of this case study was to understand the effects of inquiry learning on the academic achievement and bilingual verbal ability of 5th grade bilingual students in a French/English…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development