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Schnotz, Wolfgang; Ludewig, Ulrich; Ullrich, Mark; Horz, Holger; McElvany, Nele; Baumert, Jürgen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Reading for learning frequently requires integrating text and picture information into coherent knowledge structures. This article presents an experimental study aimed at analyzing the strategies used by students for integrating text and picture information. Four combinations of texts and pictures (text-picture units) were selected from textbooks…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Pictorial Stimuli, Learning Strategies, Printed Materials
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Griff, Edwin R; Kane, Thomas C. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2010
Insects have many interesting behaviors that can be observed in an introductory biology laboratory setting. In the present article, we describe several reflexes using the housefly "Musca domestica" that can be used to introduce students to sensory and motor responses and encourage them to think about the underlying neural circuits and integration…
Descriptors: Entomology, Biology, Perceptual Motor Learning, Introductory Courses
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Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2008
From the pragmatists to the neo-Piagetians, development has been understood to involve cycles of perception and action--the internalization of interactions with the world and the construction of skills for acting in the world. From a neurobiological standpoint, new evidence suggests that neural activities related to action and perception converge…
Descriptors: Models, Goal Orientation, Brain, Sociocultural Patterns