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This framework is designed to assist early care and education providers in planning and implementing early learning opportunities that will help prepare young children in Washington State for later success in meeting the essential academic learning requirements in reading, writing, and communication. The framework identifies characteristics of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Cromley, Jennifer – 2000
This book, developed for adult educators who teach or tutor reading in General Educational Development (GED) classrooms and for teacher trainers, contains 18 fact sheets on learning and thinking, each about 10 pages long. The following fact sheets are included: (1) Literature Is Not Science; (2) Making Connections; (3) Mental Models; (4) Thinking…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Cognitive Development
Lawanto, Oenardi – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2005
Working on an open-ended task such as designing an engineering artifact is a rich learning experience for students, although they generally receive little direct guidance and instruction from their professors. In order to be successful on such a task, students need to set reasonable goals for themselves and adopt intrinsic standards for success so…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Technology Education, Learning Experience
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Baum, Susan; Owen, Steven; Oreck, Barry – Arts Education Policy Review, 1997
Maintains that the mechanisms and learning strategies through which students learn the arts can be adapted into models of instruction for other subjects. Notes the many instances where students, particularly high-risk students, do well in arts education classes only to suffer through the more traditional curriculum. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
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Wooller, Judith; Warner, Lesley – Education in Rural Australia, 2001
An Australian distance-learning college course for women uses problem-based learning to refresh their study skills, since many are rural adults that have been away from school for some time. Metacognitive and reflective cycles activate student thinking patterns, and assigned activities complement and reinforce awareness of those skills. (TD)
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Programs, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Verhoeven, Ludo T. – Second Language Research, 1989
Investigation of the monitoring behavior of Turkish children speaking Dutch as a second language found that subjects' use repairs increased or decreased with a certain age. A positive relationship was found between monitoring use and subjects' cognitive skills and second language proficiency. (27 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Dutch
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Major, Nigel – Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1995
Describes a modelling language for representing teaching strategies, based in the context of the COCA intelligent tutoring system. Examines work on meta-reasoning in knowledge-based systems and describes COCA's architecture, giving details of the language used for representing teaching knowledge. Discusses implications for future work. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies
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Ehrlich, Marie-France; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Examines cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational factors as predictors of individual differences in the reading comprehension abilities of good and poor readers. Finds that regression analyses within subgroups indicated word recognition was the most important predictor variable for poor readers, whereas perceived competence predicted the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
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Thornburg, Devin G. – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1991
A "cognitive apprenticeship" approach was evaluated with 58 high-risk grade 7 social studies students. The three teachers were trained to provide explicit instruction of higher order cognitive strategies through modeling, monitoring, and collaborative role-playing activities. Students' writing showed significant improvements and was judged similar…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Methods, Grade 7, High Risk Students
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Garofalo, Joe – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1986
Stresses the importance of metacognitive skills (knowledge of one's own cognitive processes) in mathematical performance. Discusses the differences between metacognitive thinking and metacognitive experiences and the ways they each influence performance. Describes how accurate metacognition improves students' mathematical performance, and outlines…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Comprehension
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Vaughn, Sharon; Gersten, Russell; Chard, David J. – Exceptional Children, 2000
This article summarizes the critical findings of recent research syntheses concerning intervention with students who have learning disabilities. The syntheses examined research on higher-order processing and problem- solving, reading comprehension, written expression, and grouping practices associated with improved outcomes in reading. Principles…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Instructional Effectiveness
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Schoonen, Rob; Hulstijn, Jan; Bossers, Bart – Language Learning, 1998
Discusses a study of grades six, eight, and ten students in the Netherlands to whom grade-appropriate measures of reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge were administered in their native language, Dutch, as well as in English. The aim was to explore relative contributions to native language and foreign language reading comprehension of a…
Descriptors: Dutch, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Danaher, Mike – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Examines issues affecting the teaching and learning of listening skills within the study of Japanese as a Foreign Language. Listening within foreign-language learning is a complex skill, and students encounter several difficulties in learning to listen for comprehension. Teachers face concerns ranging from resource availability to how to teach…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Senecal, Caroline; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Assesses the role of autonomous self-regulation as a predictor of academic procrastination. Maintains that academic procrastination is often a motivational problem related to fear of failure. Reveals that students with intrinsic reasons for studying procrastinate less than those with less autonomous reasons (for example, external regulation). (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Anxiety, Discipline
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Cohn, Elchanan; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Investigates the impact and relationship of notetaking techniques, notetaking functions, and measures of working memory on learning in an introductory college economics course. Compares conventional (taking notes in the customary fashion) with the outline method (recording notes in spaces on an instructor-provided outline). Includes suggestions…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Encoding (Psychology), Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
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