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Download full textAgler, Lin-Miao L.; Stricklin, Kelley; Alfsen, Larisa K. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
The Big Five-Factor personality traits are examined in the present review. Individual characteristics and personality types may contribute differently to choices of learning strategies and overall cognitive performance. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to provide a brief overview of consistent research findings on personality constructs…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teaching Methods, Individual Characteristics, Learning Strategies
Direct linkPyburn, Daniel T.; Pazicni, Samuel; Benassi, Victor A.; Tappin, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Past work has demonstrated that language comprehension ability correlates with general chemistry course performance with medium effect sizes. We demonstrate here that language comprehension's strong cognitive grounding can be used to inform effective and equitable pedagogies, namely, instructional interventions that differentially aid low-skilled…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Intervention, Limited English Speaking, Instructional Design
Thompson, Meredith Myra; Braude, Eric John – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
The assessment of learning in large online courses requires tools that are valid, reliable, easy to administer, and can be automatically scored. We have evaluated an online assessment and learning tool called Knowledge Assembly, or Knowla. Knowla measures a student's knowledge in a particular subject by having the student assemble a set of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewedEarly, Margaret J. – Educational Perspectives, 1978
Discusses the level of reading achievement in our schools and the report of the advisory board commissioned by the College Entrance Examination Board to study the steady decline of SAT scores from 1963 through 1977. Evaluates the role of the teacher in the development of critical reading and examines six aspects of the process of comprehension.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Educational Trends, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCiardi, Ernest – Journal of Reading, 1990
Presents a compilation of strategies, exercises, and ideas that have been most helpful with students receiving private tutoring on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). (RS)
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Learning Activities, Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedRothschild, Lois H. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
Scholastic Aptitude Test skills of dyslexics can be enhanced through use of special test administration arrangements and a structured program of vocabulary development, test-taking strategies, and a pattern of analysis to improve reading comprehension. Two case studies illustrate the impact of drill and reinforcement, multimodal imagery…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Case Studies, College Entrance Examinations, Drills (Practice)
Guzzetti, Barbara J., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society. We are impacted by literature during our infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. "Literacy for the New Millennium" includes information from specialists in the field who discuss the influence of popular culture, media, and technology on…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Young Adults, Adolescents, Literacy Education
