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Paul Howard-Jones; Bethany Woollacott; Camilla Gilmore – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
We consider what is known about the potential internal processes involved when educators come to use research findings in their classroom practice. We undertook a conceptual review drawing on a range of disciplines, with findings ultimately categorised under six phases regarding research uptake and implementation. This categorisation provides a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Research Utilization
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Sabelli, Nora; Dede, Chris – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2013
This chapter discusses frameworks and conceptual lenses that help orient design-based implementation research (DBIR) work to the types of infrastructure required for success, while contributing to theories about the processes of educational improvement. Such infrastructures can be conceived as a framework: a set of interconnected elements that…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Instructional Design, Educational Research, Educational Improvement
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Folkestad, James E.; DeMiranda, Michael A. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2000
Design characteristics and instructional practices in exemplary technology education accord with cognitive science perspectives on learning, knowledge, and instruction, e.g., collaborative learning, socially distributed expertise, student as designer, and project-based learning. Teachers should examine the degree to which cognitive science theory…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Research and Development, Research Utilization, Student Projects
Verloop, Nicolaas – 1989
In this study the effects of a particular type of teacher training material on the cognitions and behaviors of prospective teachers are investigated. The study is based on the assumption that theoretical knowledge that has emerged from research and theory development in education is useful for prospective teachers. The study is confined to that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Recall (Psychology)
Schack, Edna O. – 1988
This paper examines the possibility of developing a conceptual framework on which future research on the application of electroencephalography (EEG) to computer-assisted instruction (CAI) could be based. Consistent associations between EEG and cognitive functions for learning and instruction have the potential for bringing cognitivism into the…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research
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Stanovich, Keith E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Reactions to H. Lee Swanson's paper "Toward a Metatheory of Learning Disabilities" are outlined, and his arguments are applied to reading disabilities, focusing on the importance of the scientific attitude, the misuse of ecological validity, interpretation of Thomas Kuhn's work, modularity and reading disability, and scientific progress…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
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Carpenter, Thomas P.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1989
Twenty first-grade teachers' use of knowledge from research about mathematical thinking of children was compared with that of 20 teachers who did not participate in an analysis of research. Implications for teacher education and practice are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Floden, Robert E.; And Others – 1990
This Issue Paper includes two papers: (1) "What Can Research on Teacher Thinking Contribute to Teacher Preparation? A Second Opinion," by Robert E. Floden and Hans Gerhard Klinzing, and (2) "Taking Account of the Distinction between Knowing and Thinking in Teaching," by Magdalene Lampert and Christopher Clark. Both sets of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Higher Education
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Bell, Sherry Mee; McCallum, R. Steve; Cox, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
Elementary and middle school children (n=105) completed measures of reading achievement and cognitive abilities. Factor analysis produced three empirically and theoretically derived factors, auditory processing, visual processing/speed, and memory. Together the three factors combined predicted 61 to 85% of the variance associated with different…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Disability Identification
Vialle, Wilma, Ed.; Geake, John, Ed. – 2002
Twenty-one research articles originally published in the "Australasian Journal of Gifted Education" over the past decade are collected in this book and address aspects of gifted education including pedagogy and curriculum, policy and practice, social and emotional needs, school and family, neuropsychology and cognition, and special…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Methods, Educational Policy
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Willis, Deborah – Oxford Review of Education, 1993
Asserts that educators hold particular views about the nature of learning and its relationship to student assessment. Argues that educational objectives of education for meaning and life-long learning are unlikely to be achieved unless student assessment reflects the same theoretical principles. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Nyhan, Barry, Ed. – 2002
This 11-chapter book is intended to explore the ways in which professional and vocational education and training (VET) can contribute toward building the emerging "knowledge society," particularly the ways in which the research and development community can take proactive steps to shape the emerging knowledge society. Part 1, on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adults, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Sousa, David A. – 2002
This book is designed to help teachers turn research on the brain function of intellectually and artistically advanced students into practical classroom activities and strategies. Following an introduction that discuses the myths and realities about giftedness, chapter 1 discusses basic brain structures and their functions. Chapter 2 looks at…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Acceleration (Education), Attention Deficit Disorders, Brain Hemisphere Functions