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Natnael Terefe Arega; Tigist Shiferaw Hunde – Review of Education, 2025
Constructivist instructional approaches have gained significant popularity in education as educators seek to create more engaging and effective learning environments. However, the effectiveness of these approaches in promoting student learning remains a subject of debate. This systematic review aims to synthesise existing evaluation-based research…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Instructional Development
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Kamal Upreti; Virendra Singh Kushwah; Prashant Vats; Md. Shane Alam; Rahul Singhai; Dhyanendra Jain; Akhilesh Tiwari – European Journal of Education, 2024
Students must receive the knowledge and skills they require for succeeding in a constantly changing world. Meeting each student's diverse needs, nevertheless, is difficult. For the purpose to promote student development and improve educational outcomes, this review study attempts to give a thorough conceptual framework for integrating both…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Outcomes of Education, Student Development
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Katie Steckles; Claire Ketnor; Ros Porter; Alex Shukie; Alexander S. Corner – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2025
Due to the nature of the teaching environment, students may often develop perceptions of their lecturers' ability as mathematicians, based on the pre-prepared and well-rehearsed content they present. In reality, performing mathematical calculations and solving problems is a difficult skill, and students may compare their own experiences…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
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Garza, Alma Nidia; Van Delinder, Jean – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Recent studies question students' learning gains on college campuses. Even though academic challenges are further complicated for first-generation college students who arrive at college under prepared, little is known about how these setbacks contribute to students' cognitive and behavioral study approaches in college. Situated within a culture…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Faculty, Student Development, Student Adjustment
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Bourner, Tom – Higher Education Review, 2009
This article is about student learning, specifically the problem of what a university can do to develop its students' powers of learning. The broad approach is to discover what we can learn from the university's long experience with developing students' critical faculties and then apply the lessons to developing students' powers of learning. The…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Development, Student Development, Cognitive Processes
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Watkins, David; Regmi, Murari – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1995
A study analyzed constructs surrounding 45 Nepalese master's students' approaches to and conceptions of learning. Interviews indicated that few students had more than a low level of insight into their learning processes, most used surface learning strategies, and most achieved low-level learning outcomes. Findings cast doubt on the construct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Construct Validity, Educational Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Hardre, Patricia L.; Ge, Xun; Thomas, Michael K. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
This research investigated expertise development among instructional designers by tracking novice designers' unfolding perceptions of instructional design (ID), design-related self-perceptions, and other individual differences. It examined development toward ID expertise from multiple aspects: processes, product, and cognition, through a case…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Skill Development
Ediger, Marlow – 1989
College and university instructors need to utilize selected principles of learning from the psychology of education. These principles of learning when implemented in the classroom should assist each student to achieve goals more optimally. The five principles of learning recommended to facilitate student progress in the higher education curriculum…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, Decision Making, Educational Psychology
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Bittner, Marie – Social Studies Review, 1990
Recommends that secondary social studies teachers help students recognize their own thought processes to develop critical thinking skills. Provides examples of applying the Social Studies Strategies Survey's cognitive strategies to case studies dealing with first amendment issues. Contends that teachers must understand their own cognitive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking
Gardner, Daniel, Ed. – 2001
This paper examines issues in the postsecondary education of students with brain injuries. It defines the categories of brain injury and describes the impact on an individual's ability to learn and to live independently. Appropriate learning tools and strategies to help these students succeed in postsecondary education are discussed. The paper…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, College Students