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Burtenshaw, Rebecca – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
Behaviourism proposes successful learning to be dependent on the performance of conditioned behaviours that are distinctly observable and objectively measurable. Over the past 100 years, various behaviourist concepts have been superseded by sociocultural and cognitive learning theories, but the entwined areas of assessment in mathematics education…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Success, Behavior Theories, Behavior Patterns
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Hunter, Samuel T.; Blocker, Lily D.; Gutworth, Melissa B.; Allen, Julian – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2023
Although organizations say new ideas are desirable, investing in original products rather than the "tried and true" can be unsettling for decision-makers. This discomfort may be due, in part, to uncertainty surrounding whether a new idea will prove successful. As such, the originality of a creative idea can be paradoxically viewed both…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Evaluative Thinking, Decision Making, Creative Thinking
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Duong, Quang Hung; Pham, To Nhu; Reynolds, Lorenna; Yeap, Yan; Walker, Steven; Lyons, Kayley – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Therapeutic reasoning is when the purpose, task, or goal for engaging in reasoning is to determine the patient's management plan. As the field's understanding of the process of therapeutic reasoning is less well understood, we focused on studies that collected data on the process of therapeutic reasoning. To synthesize previous studies of…
Descriptors: Therapy, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Kim, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While language aptitude and motivation are considered to be important contributors to second language (L2) attainment, two major gaps in the past research have been (1) a lack of nonlinear models stemming from a naive and tacit assumption that learning outcomes are linearly related to their predictors, and (2) a lack of unified and integrative…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Aptitude, Learning Motivation
Odette P. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Career decision-making is critical involving the selection of a career path that aligns with one's interests, skills, and values. Many students, however, find it difficult to determine their career pathways for one reason or another. Ultimately, their ability to decide can be impacted by their self-awareness and assessment, interactions within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Career Choice, Decision Making
Sherry Inez Bumpus-Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental correlational study is to test the relationship between children having special needs and the rate of homeschooling and to test the relationship between parental dissatisfaction with the learning environments in public or private schools and the choice to homeschool. The theoretical framework in…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Special Needs Students
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Peppler, Kylie; Davis-Soylu, Heidi J.; Dahn, Maggie – Arts Education Policy Review, 2023
Traditional reviews of arts education have focused on why the arts are valuable for learning, but the arts' contributions to cross-disciplinary discourse remain undertheorized. In this article, we provide a theoretical review of the arts and learning to suggest a new way of thinking about how the arts contribute to learning across disciplines…
Descriptors: Art Education, Learning Processes, Models, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Elsherif, M. M.; Preece, E.; Catling, J. C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly and accurately than those acquired later. Over several decades, the AoA effect has been investigated using neuroscientific, behavioral, corpus and computational…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
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Ayed, Ahmad; Malak, Malakeh Z.; Alamer, Rsmieh M.; Batran, Ahmad; Salameh, Basma; Fashafsheh, Imad – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
It became necessary to integrate alternative teaching methods having excellent results in the nursing curriculum such as high-fidelity human patient simulation. High fidelity simulation improves nursing students' thinking, and emotional and decision-making capabilities. The pretest-posttest control group design was conducted to examine the effect…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
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Betts, Joe; Muntean, William; Kim, Doyoung; Jorion, Natalie; Dickison, Philip – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2019
Clinical judgment has become an increasingly important aspect of modern health service professionals. To ensure public safety, licensure exams must go beyond assessing only knowledge and skills when evaluating entry-level professions to evaluating clinical judgment. This importance necessitates licensure and certification examinations in these…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Certification, Nursing Education
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Karla Lopez-Murillo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Mexico is the main Latin American country sending students abroad for international education. In 2020, 34,781 Mexican students were enrolled in higher education institutions (HEIs) outside their country of origin. From those, 37% studied in a European country. The National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) has funded international student…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Doctoral Students, Decision Making, Student Attitudes
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Hrastinski, Stefan – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2021
Purpose: An issue that has received limited attention is how teachers make informed decisions when designing learning activities, which makes effective use of resources and technologies. The aim of this paper is to explore how teachers suggest informing their designs for learning. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on documentation…
Descriptors: Design, Instructional Design, Decision Making, Adult Education
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Yüzen, Abdulkadir; Perkmen, Serkan – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2022
This study aims to design multimedia materials to be used in career counseling and to test their effects on self-efficacy and learning. Multimedia Learning Theory and Cognitive Load Theory were used in the study as a theoretical framework. The students were provided to recognize their personality traits (interests and abilities) and almost 50…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Career Counseling, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Edling, Silvia; Sharp, Heather; Löfström, Jan; Ammert, Niklas – Ethics and Education, 2020
In light of current tendencies, where appreciating plurality and uphold everyone's equal value is being questioned from different directions, there is arguably a need to revive the ethical dimension of history education as a way of learning about difficult histories, including traumatic pasts. Since the 1970s historical consciousness has played an…
Descriptors: Ethics, History Instruction, Trauma, Learning Theories
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Khumalo, Vuyisile L.; Van Staden, Surette; Graham, Marien A. – Pythagoras, 2022
Most learner achievement studies tend to focus on identifying individual characteristics, ignoring the learning strategies that promote mathematical resilience. The focus of the study is on the assets embedded in an individual and their interplay with the environment. It is expected that resilience plays a deciding role in learners' foreground…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Resilience (Psychology)
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