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Malakar, Partha; Basu, Jayanti – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2017
The aim of the study was to determine whether the general intelligence, cognitive processes, school achievement, and intelligence-achievement relationship of adolescents with subclinical levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms differed from those of their normal counterparts. From an initial large pool of 14-year-old Bengali students in eighth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Processes
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Ahuja, Renu – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2019
This paper describes the theory of professional competence in teaching of mathematics developed through a cross-cultural examination of teaching practices of mathematics teachers recommended as competent by their principals in two selected high-achieving high schools of India and the United States. A detailed study of teacher cases from both of…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Instruction, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
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Huston, Simon; Huston, Elena; Kozlowski, Marek – Education Sciences, 2019
This research investigated the significance of learning dispositif (LD) and emotional attachment (EA) on perceived learning success (LS) across a diaspora of Western, Russian, Asian, Middle Eastern and Chinese student cohorts. Foucault's LD captures the disparate socio-cultural contexts, institutional milieus and more or less didactic teaching…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Success, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Zayabalaradjane, Z.; Chacko, Thomas V. – Online Submission, 2020
This report presents the compilation of interaction analysis of a month long online discussion that supplemented regular FAIMER fellowship programme for health professional teachers. Online discussion forums are considered as an effective means and if conducted using appropriate protocols and activities will help learners to share and gain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Faculty Development
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Mahapatra, Shamita – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Children experience difficulties in reading either because they fail to decode the words and thus are unable to comprehend the text or simply fail to comprehend the text even if they are able to decode the words and read them out. Failure in word decoding results from a failure in phonological coding of written information, whereas reading…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
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Kaur, Gurjeet – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
Despite its familiarity and the fact that it becomes a formal area of study in early upper primary grades, optics remains a cognitive challenge for young as well as advanced learners, not only because much of it is counter-intuitive but also because its conceptual comprehension involves negotiating the vocabulary and graphical symbolism involved…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Optics, Comprehension, Science Education
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Amrita; Anisha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Mira Bai, a saint-poet of North India is an important figure in medieval Hindi literature. Her "bhajan"-s (songs) profoundly represent the transforming of consciousness working through conceptual metaphors which fall in the realm of religious poetry wherein target domains are generally abstract. Since, the working of the mind is more…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Poetry, Cognitive Processes, Spiritual Development
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Rani, K. V. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2016
Perceptual Learning styles are different ways in which people process the information in the course of learning, intimately involved in producing more effective response stimuli. The objective of the study was to find out the correlation between the variables of Perceptual learning style in total and with its dimensions to Academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Dravidian Languages
Shilna, V.; Gafoor, K. A. – Online Submission, 2015
Chemistry has been looked upon as a challenging subject by teachers, students and researchers because of the abstract nature of content in chemistry, teaching styles applied in class, and the difficulty of the language of chemistry. Cognitive load for the novice learner has a significant role in creating difficulties in chemistry learning.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Dhall, Jasmine Kaur – School Psychology International, 2016
Handwriting execution is based on the cognitive, kinesthetic, motor skills, and manual co-ordination skills of an individual. The deterioration in handwriting quality is a common implication of neurological disorders. Difficulty and degradation in handwriting has been attributed to the sensory motor deficits prevalent in developmental disorders.…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Developmental Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills
Tamilselvi, B.; Geetha, D. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2015
Multiple intelligence is the theory that "people are smart in more ways than one has immense implication for educators". Howard Gardner proposed a new view of intelligence that is rapidly being incorporated in school curricula. In his theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner expanded the concept of intelligence with such areas as music,…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories
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Mishra, Rishabh Kumar – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
Textbook questions and exercises are quintessential part of every textbook. One can easily locate textbook questions at the end of the every chapter and also in between the texts. What are they meant for? Usually we think they are meant for assessing learners' understanding regarding subject knowledge, providing clue to teacher to form other…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Geography Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content
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Mohanty, Atasi – SAGE Open, 2015
This study attempts to assess and compare the residential and non-residential schoolchildren in information-processing skills and creative thinking abilities. A sample of 80 children from Classes 5 and 7 were selected from two types of schools, residential/ashram (02) and non-residential/formal schools (02) in Bolpur subdivision of West Bengal in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Residential Schools
Anil, Beena – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
English has a universal appeal and in India, English is associated with modernity and progress sometimes with the ideology of its cultural values. The economic value of English is very high in India as even a layman uses English words in his/her "native" communication. The second language acquisition happens for learners at various…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Mahapatra, Shamita – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
A group of 50 skilled readers and a group of 50 less-skilled readers of Grade 5 matched for age and intelligence and selected on the basis of their proficiency in reading comprehension were tested for their competence in word reading and the processes of attention, simultaneous coding, successive coding and planning at three levels, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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