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Di Vesta, Francis J.; Finke, F. Michael – Educational Communication and Technology, 1985
Two studies investigated robustness of the effect of precise elaborations on memory and relationship of these effects to metacognitions about learning. Sentences which were elaborated in different ways were read to subjects by experimenters to establish levels of meaningfulness and identify effects on performance. Comprehension and confidence…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comprehension, Confidence Testing, Epistemology
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Boekaerts, Monique – International Journal of Educational Research, 1986
The fields of information processing, motivation, and metacognition are included in this review of research on student motivation. The multidisciplinary approach is discussed, as are the differences between achievement motivation and intrinsic motivation, and various learning models. (GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Need, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Phelps, Renata; Ellis, Allan; Hase, Stewart – 2001
There is continued pressure for the application and integration of computer technologies into learning and teaching. For such innovations to be successfully implemented, students themselves must have the confidence, ability, and willingness to engage with computer technology. In some disciplinary and professional contexts such as the arts,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Gaddis, Marcus D.; Elliott, Terry – 1997
Ways to enhance learning by both at-risk and underachieving students in upper-level accounting courses were studied at Morehead State University (Kentucky), based on the concepts of metacognition, self-regulated learning, and self-efficacy. It was hypothesized that students experience self-regulated learning when they reproduce problem solutions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Advanced Courses, Business Administration Education
National Capital Language Resource Center, Washington, DC. – 1996
This study investigated over a 3-year period the learning strategies high school students reported using for learning a second language. The learning strategies used across languages and modalities are described. The report is organized by instrument--questionnaires, small group interviews, individual think-aloud interviews--and presents the data…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, German, High School Students
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Scarino, Angela – Babel: Australia, 1995
Explores questions regarding the knowledge and proficiency level expected of second-language learners, the acquisition of valued knowledge, the relationship between cognition and language learning, the nature of "progress," and quality curriculum design. These questions are discussed in reference to the development in Australia of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gu, Yongqi; Johnson, Robert Keith – Language Learning, 1996
Discusses an attempt to establish the vocabulary learning strategies used by Chinese university learners of English in Beijing and the relationship between their strategies and outcomes in learning English. Findings reveal that two metacognitive strategies emerged as positive predictors of vocabulary test scores and that visual repetition of new…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
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Ho, Belinda – English for Specific Purposes, 1997
Examines how two groups of computer students reacted to tasks involving different degrees of reflectivity. Results indicate that students found almost all tasks, including the reflective ones, helpful and relevant although the intervention group studied disliked the reflective tasks, especially those at the metacognitive level. (15 references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Critical Thinking
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Auerbach, Elsa Roberts; Paxton, Diane – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Overviews an undergraduate English-as-a-Second-Language reading course's design and pedagogical processes as well as the ways students were involved in inquiry. Findings indicate that transferring second language research tools into learners' hands and inviting students to reflect critically on their own reading can increase their metacognitive…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Critical Thinking, English (Second Language)
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Davis, Martha; Hult, Richard E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Investigates the efficiency of a novel addition to the routine of note taking, writing brief summaries of the lecture material during four-minute breaks within the lecture. A group of students wrote three sets of summaries during a 21-minute lecture and showed significant improvement in understanding over other groups. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Higher Education, Intentional Learning, Learning Activities
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Kruschke, John K. – Teaching of Psychology, 1996
Describes a classroom exercise that uses a computer simulation to give students a rat's-eye view of a maze. The students call out instructions for navigating the maze. A follow-up presentation examines two theories of learning that explain why the students' are successful in their second navigating attempt. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Restructuring, Comprehension
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Salomon, Gavriel; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
This study tested the hypothesis that effortful interaction with a computer tool that provides reading-related guided interaction on a meta-cognitive level results in the internalization of the guidance and later improved reading comprehension. Results with 25 seventh graders in Tel Aviv using a specially designed tool--the Reading…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
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Hart, Daniel; Edelstein, Wolfgang – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Investigates the relationship of children's self-understanding to social class, community type (modern or traditional), and teachers' ratings for 73 12 year olds in Reykjavik (Iceland) and 21 12 year olds in traditional villages in Iceland. Children in higher social classes offer more psychological descriptions. The inadvisability of generalizing…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Feldhusen, John F. – Gifted Education International, 1994
This paper offers a model of the nature and development of talents, which views genetic factors as determining potential strengths and setting limits and views abilities, aptitudes, and intelligences emerging as a result of experiences, motivations, and styles. Specific talents are characterized by precocity, creative insight, a functional…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Creative Development, Creativity, Educational Environment
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Pokay, Patricia; Blumenfeld, Phyllis C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Relationships among motivation, use of general and content-specific learning strategies, and achievement were examined for 283 high school geometry students early and late in the semester. Results suggest that teachers should emphasize domain-specific strategies when introducing a unit, and emphasize less domain-specific strategies later in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Geometry, High School Students
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