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Mayer, Richard E. – Theory into Practice, 2002
Examines the six categories that make up the cognitive process dimension of Bloom's Taxonomy Table, as well as the 19 specific cognitive processes that fit within them. After describing three learning outcomes, the paper focuses on retention versus transfer of learning and rote versus meaningful learning, discussing how teaching and assessment can…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
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Wang, Alvin Y.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Findings from 4 experiments with a total of 218 college students, in which the retention interval for second-language vocabulary words was treated as a between-subjects factor, indicate that long-term forgetting is greater for learners instructed to use the keyword mnemonic than for learners engaged in rote rehearsal. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Memorization, Mnemonics
Scott, L. Carol; Goetz, Elizabeth M. – 1978
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of game-like learning activities, as compared to rote memorization procedures, on preschool subjects (n=8) recitation of their home telephone numbers. A rhyming mnemonic memory device was incorporated into the game procedures. A group design was used with a pretest-training-posttest…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Games, Learning Motivation, Memorization
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1978
Brown and Barclay (1976) trained educable retarded children to use either of two memory search strategies, Anticipation or Rehearsal, involving a self-checking component. Following the training, both their free recall performance and their ability to estimate their readiness for a recall test improved significantly. In the present research, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Followup Studies, Memorization, Mild Mental Retardation
Davis, Edward J. – NCTM Yearbook, 1978
Ten principles to apply in teaching children to memorize basic facts are discussed. (MN)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Guidelines
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Weisshed, Ethel – Psychological Reports, 1973
The determination of the extent to which generalizations derived from studies of rote verbal learning, particularly paired-associate learning applied to highly meaningful materials, was the focus of this study. It was found that discriminating tags to synonyms and antonyms permitting the application of appropriate transfer rules may be attached.…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Memorization, Paired Associate Learning, Poetry
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Nelson, Thomas O.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1979
The kind of semantic information that facilitates relearning was investigated. The paradigm consisted of three stages: (1) learn a list of number-word pairs; (2) return for a retention test; and (3) relearn a new list of pairs that have various kinds of semantic relatedness to the originally learned pairs. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Cues, Higher Education, Memorization, Memory
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Mansfield, Barbara – History and Social Science Teacher, 1989
Describes the use of past educational experiences and resulting attitudes to illustrate effective teaching methods to students in social studies methods courses. Positive memories center around a hands-on approach, whereas negative memories focused on memorization and rote learning. (LS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Experience, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Jerald, Craig D. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
Every spring, education-related newspaper and magazine stories raise the alarm that schools are "teaching to the test." Scores of articles and editorials paint a disheartening picture of frustrated teachers forced to abandon good instructional practices for a relentless stream of worksheets based on boring, repetitive test-preparation…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods, Testing, Standardized Tests
Cornbleth, Catherine – 1986
Myth is integral to modern as well as ancient societies in its service to multiple interrelated social functions. Among these are to explain phenomena and direct action, to justify particular interests or practices, to dramatize ideals, and to provide cultural cohesion. Three prevailing myths that are especially problematic are the myths of…
Descriptors: Christianity, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Developmental Stages
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Logan, John W.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1987
Describes the results of a survey of highly successful junior high and middle school students, which asked open-ended questions about their perceptions of spelling. Indicates that visualizing is the most common strategy for learning new words, followed by dictionary use and repeating words over and over. (SKC)
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Memorization, Psychological Studies
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Ozaki, Chantel; And Others – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1996
A Copy/Cover/Compare method of teaching multiplication facts to a sixth grade student with learning disabilities was evaluated. Results indicated that the Copy/Cover/Compare method was effective in increasing percent correct for the targeted multiplication facts. Practical implications of employing this drill and practice procedure in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Drills (Practice), Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
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Kember, David – Higher Education, 1996
Emerging research evidence of an approach to learning that combines memorization and comprehension, particularly from Asia, is examined and possible explanations for it are discussed. It is proposed that this approach may explain the apparent paradox of high achievement is Asian cultures, where rote learning in stressed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Cultural Context, Educational Research
McKim, Brent – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
The federal journey into public education has followed a long and winding road. Most educators know that the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is simply the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which dates all the way back to 1965. In the years since its initial passage, the ESEA road has taken a number of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Role of Education, Educational Change
Hartman, Thomas G.; Nowak, Norman – 1982
This paper outlines several "tricks" that aid students in improving their memories. The distinctions between operational and figural thought processes are noted. Operational memory is described as something that allows adults to make generalizations about numbers and the rules by which they may be combined, thus leading to easier memorization.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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