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Download full textZhang, Yimei; Savard, Annie – ECNU Review of Education, 2023
Purpose: To analyze mathematics problem-solving (PS) procedures in Chinese (CH) and Canadian (CA) elementary mathematics textbooks that leverage computational thinking (CT) as a cognitive tool, which have evidently existed and been implemented. Design/Approach/Methods: In this study, an analysis framework was developed to investigate the…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Comparative Education
Direct linkParker, Heather; Brown, Shannon; Morehead, Allison; Dempster, Madeleine; Wagner, Natalie; Curtis, Rachel; Law, Christine – Journal of Museum Education, 2022
This case study of an art education program for medical students examines the efficacy of different types of content and modes of delivery. Through the delivery of art analysis, art history, sculpting, and life drawing seminars, art educators were able to teach empathy, observation, and flexible thinking to first-year medical students. This…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Art Education, Medical Students, Teaching Methods
Whalen, Kate; Paez, Antonio – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
Sustainability challenges are complex and call for the effective development of knowledge, skills, and abilities in current and new leaders. New offerings in higher education provide sustainability training to complement studies in geography, engineering, science, and other disciplines, in many cases including innovative experiential learning…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Student Attitudes, Reflection, Metacognition
Donaldson, Sheetal – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2020
This article describes the Context Based Learning (CBL) redesign of Nursing courses addressing life transitions, including by implementing group discussion, written concept analysis, group presentations, reflections on thinking and simulation performance, group skills analysis and a final paper. The purpose of the study was to determine how these…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Nursing Education
Daniel, Marie-France; Lafortune, Louise; Pallascio, Richard; Splitter, Laurance; Slade, Christina; de la Garza, Teresa – Communication Education, 2005
This research project investigated manifestations of critical thinking in pupils 10 to 12 years of age during their group discussions held in the context of Philosophy for Children Adapted to Mathematics. The objective of the research project was to examine, through the pupils' discussions, the development of dialogical critical thinking…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1992
This resource book is intended to help teachers and schools enhance their teaching of thinking, and to make their teaching of thinking skills more deliberate, explicit, and an integral part of the school curricula. It challenges all educators to reflect on their involvement in teaching for thinking, teaching of thinking, and teaching about…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Norris, Stephen P.; Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Phillips, Linda M. – Theory and Research in Education, 2004
Many significant changes in perspective have to take place before efforts to learn the content and capabilities of children's minds can hold much sway in educational testing. The language of testing, especially of high stakes testing, remains firmly in the realm of "behaviors", "performance" and "competency" defined…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Test Construction, Test Items, Educational Testing
Mulcahy, Robert; And Others – 1993
The Cognitive Education Project centered at the University of Alberta undertook a 3-year longitudinal evaluation of two cognitive education programs aimed at teaching thinking skills. The critical difference between the two experimental programs was that one, Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (IE) method was taught out of curricular content,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Education Branch. – 1996
Part of a seven-book series called "Programming for Students with Special Needs," this book offers all teachers information to enhance their understanding of learning disabilities and provides practical strategies to assist in teaching students with special needs. Section 1 discusses the definition of learning disabilities, labeling, and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Check Lists, Cognitive Processes, Definitions
