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Gorges, Julia; Schmidt, Leonie Christina – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: The generalization of established motivation hypothesis states that individuals use established motivational beliefs to predict motivational beliefs regarding novel learning content on the basis of the perceived similarity between academic domains. Aims: This study tests the generalization hypothesis by investigating the assumed…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Beliefs, Prior Learning
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Kosar, Gülten; Bedir, Hasan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
This case study examines whether or not an intervention in brain-based learning (BBL) brings about any change in language learning beliefs (LLBs) of adult EFL learners. Students enrolled in an English preparatory program were taught in accord with BBL principles over 16 weeks. Beliefs about language learning inventory (BALLI) was administered at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
Ng, Betsy, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development. It draws on the relationship between graduate attributes and employability, as well as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
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Radford, Mike – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2012
The problems that this article seeks to address are those that are raised in the context of the bilateralism that is established when we think in terms of secularism as primarily orientated towards reason and post secularism, towards faith. The objective of the article is to show that the distinction between the two can be collapsed. Post…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Beliefs, Postmodernism, Spiritual Development
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De Neys, Wim; Van Gelder, Elke – Developmental Science, 2009
Popular reasoning theories postulate that the ability to inhibit inappropriate beliefs lies at the heart of the human reasoning engine. Given that people's inhibitory capacities are known to rise and fall across the lifespan, we predicted that people's deductive reasoning performance would show similar curvilinear age trends. A group of children…
Descriptors: Conflict, Inhibition, Young Adults, Logical Thinking
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Friedman, Sheldon – Learning Organization, 2004
Decision-makers in organizations often make what appear as being intuitively obviously and reasonable decisions, which often turn out to yield unintended outcomes. The cause of such ineffective decisions can be a combination of cognitive biases, poor mental models of complex systems, and errors in thinking provoked by anxiety, all of which tend to…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Decision Making, Role Playing, Simulation