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Effects of Context on the Neural Correlates of Attention in a College Classroom
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Jennie K. Grammer; Keye Xu; Agatha Lenartowicz – npj Science of Learning, 2021
Activities that are effective in supporting attention have the potential to increase opportunities for student learning. However, little is known about the impact of instructional contexts on student attention, in part due to limitations in our ability to measure attention in the classroom, typically based on behavioral observation and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Classroom Environment, Attention Control, Diagnostic Tests
Beyond Oral Participation: A Typology of Student Engagement in Classroom Discussions
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Shi, Meijia; Tan, Cheng Yong – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Classroom discussions represent a common learning activity for students in schools. The prevailing discourse has focused on how to encourage as many students as possible to participate actively in classroom discussions with the assumption that only vocal students are engaged learners. The present essay critically challenges this position by…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Classroom Communication, Classification, Inclusion
Cognitive Styles and School Learning
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Satterly, D. J.; Brimer, M. A. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Hypothesis Testing, Learning Activities
VARIABLES IN "DISCOVERY LEARNING."
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GLASER, ROBERT – 1966
A PRESENTATION WAS MADE OF THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR THAT IS REQUIRED AS A FIRST STEP IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING PROCEDURES AND MATERIALS FOR "DISCOVERY LEARNING." TEACHING BY THE DISCOVERY METHOD IS DESCRIBED AS REQUIRING THAT A MINIMUM OF STRUCTURED INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE BE IMPOSED TO ALLOW THE CHILD TO (1) LEARN BY DISCOVERY AND (2)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Curiosity, Discovery Learning
Sex-Typed Activities: Cause or Effect?
Carpenter, C. Jan; Huston-Stein, Aletha – 1979
Sex differences in activity selection or choice appear by age 12 or 18 months. These choices are one of the earliest indicators of sex differences in the behavior of young children. Differences in activity participation or toy choices are evident long before the emergence of sex differences in personality characteristics like passivity or…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes
Classification Skills. Toward Competence Instructional Materials for Teacher Education.
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Robison, Helen F. – 1974
This learning module helps the teacher to master teaching skills that stimulate children to explore materials and to order their explorations in ways that lead to classification and that generate the child's own structuring of his discoveries and experiences. Teaching behaviors focused upon are congruent with Piagetian concepts about a child's…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Child Learning and Development in Context: Strategies for Analyzing Behaviour-Environment Interactions and a Proposal for Research into Everyday Experience.
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Ballard, Keith D. – Educational Psychology, 1986
Suggests the need for detailed study of (1) behavior-environment interactions and (2) interdependencies within behavioral repertoires. Examines systems theory as a paradigm for both interpreting dynamic interrelationships and examining the complexities of learning and adaption. Argues for noninterventive studies of individual children's…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development