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Torrance Jenkins, Rebecca – School Science Review, 2017
This article is the first of a two-part series that explores science teachers' and their pupils' experiences of using different pedagogical approaches based on understandings of how brains learn. For this case-study research, nine science teachers were interviewed and four teachers self-selected to trial a pedagogical approach, new to them, from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Feeney, Aidan; Coley, John D.; Crisp, Aimee – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1995) suggests that people expend cognitive effort when processing information in proportion to the cognitive effects to be gained from doing so. This theory has been used to explain how people apply their knowledge appropriately when evaluating category-based inductive arguments (Medin, Coley, Storms, &…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Logical Thinking, Experiments, Foreign Countries
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Colvert, Emma; Rutter, Michael; Kreppner, Jana; Beckett, Celia; Castle, Jenny; Groothues, Christine; Hawkins, Amanda; Stevens, Suzanne; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
Theory of Mind (ToM) and Executive Function (EF) have been associated with autism and with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and hence might play a role in similar syndromes found following profound early institutional deprivation. In order to examine this possibility the current study included a group of 165 Romanian adoptees, of…
Descriptors: Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, At Risk Persons, Disadvantaged Environment