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Berch, Daniel B., Ed; Mazzocco, Michele M.M., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2007
In order for schools to help students with learning difficulties and disabilities improve their achievement in mathematics, educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers need a better understanding of the evidence based on what is behind these students' difficulties in learning math. That is just what they will get with this landmark…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems, Incidence
Evers, Anne; Yancey, Robyn – 1992
This book of student activities is intended to be used with a text, "Keeping a Head in School," written for preadolescents and adolescents with learning disorders. It includes a variety of work sheets, puzzles, games, and checklists, to accompany the text's chapters. The first chapter has activities concerning basic concepts related to learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Attention Control
Levine, Melvin D. – 1990
This book, also available on audiocassette, is written for preadolescents and adolescents with learning disorders, and offers them empowering suggestions for overcoming their problems in school. The first chapter deals with basic concepts related to learning disorders and brain function. It emphasizes that there are many types of learning…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adolescents, Attention
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 1997
This publication contains reports on six research projects proposed, developed, and conducted by teachers in their own classrooms. The projects were conducted during the 1995-96 school year. The projects are: (1) "M..M..M..Math (Making More Meaning out of Math)" (Naomi Rose); (2) "Effect of Student Achievement as a Result of Individualized Use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Classroom Research, Computer Uses in Education
Semb, George B.; Ellis, John A. – 1992
The question examined in this paper is: what is known exactly about variables that affect long-term retention of knowledge learned in school? U. Neisser (1982) asserts that "it is difficult to find even a single study, ancient or modern, of what is retained from academic instruction." Further, popular belief holds that much of the knowledge…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Educational Research, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Fellenz, Robert A.; Conti, Gary J. – 1989
The focus of the adult education field is shifting to adult learning. Current trends are the continued development of the concepts of andragogy and self-directed learning, increased emphasis on learning how to learn, and real-life learning. Cognitive psychology is influencing work in adult learning. The concept of intelligence as it relates to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Frierson, Henry T., Jr.; Munro, Molly – 1988
This manual covers study behavior and attitudes and specific study techniques for health profession students, including scheduling, comprehension, memory, and test-taking techniques. Much of the approach emphasizes self-discipline and honesty. Focus is on how students in a health professions program can make their study time more productive and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Students, Comprehension, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relation of specific perceptual, cognitive, and training variables to reading skills acquisition of kindergarten students; (2) the implications of interest…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading
Mestre, Jose – 1984
The focus of the study reported here was to investigate people's comprehension ability as a function of the number and type of negations embedded within sentences similar to those which might appear as premises in syllogisms. The subjects were one group of 11 Hispanic and four groups of Anglo students, with 15 in each Anglo group. Thirty-two…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, English, Hispanic Americans
Evans, Richard W. – 1982
Questions related to the instructional design of computer-based educational systems were addressed in a study in which college psychology majors completed a computer-based course in statistics using instructional units developed to teach the desired knowledge within the context of situations to which the knowledge is relevant--a technique called…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Evaluation
Walters, Janice; Tobias, Sigmund – 1985
The effectiveness of a strategy for remembering words from a word list was investigated in subjects who were high in test anxiety versus subjects who were low in test anxiety. Sixty seventh-grade volunteers from two urban junior high schools were assigned to the strategy training group or the control group. The strategy group was instructed to…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cluster Grouping, Grade 7, Group Instruction
Wedell-Monnig, Jacelyn; McNeil, Judy T. – 1980
The purpose and design of a longitudinal study of Project Head Start is summarized in this document, the fourth in a set of ten reports documenting the project. (Material from Project Report 3 was used extensively in preparing this document.) The study was designed to evaluate on a nationwide basis the Head Start Educational Services and to…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Basic Skills, Cognitive Measurement, Communication Skills
Dirkes, M. Ann – 1980
Although teachers may sequence instructions carefully, they are unable to respond to the complex unique experience of each individual learner. Divergent production should be an instructional choice that enables individuals to learn through their own recall and idea construction. Learning is problem solving; when individuals do not know how to deal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
Schendel, J. D.; And Others – 1978
A summary of an extensive literature survey deals with the variables known or suspected to affect the retention of learned motor behaviors over lengthy no-practice intervals. Emphasis was given to research conducted by or for the military. The variables that may affect the retention of motor skills were dichotomized into task variables and…
Descriptors: Ability, Armed Forces, Behavior Development, Environmental Influences
Nurss, Joanne R. – 1977
Prereading assessment was first used to predict school readiness and was an assessment of the child's visual and oral vocabulary skills. By the 1970s, readiness assessment had changed from assessment of a child's developmental probability for success or failure in reading to an assessment of the child's skill development in relation to the reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Learning Processes
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