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Kim, Kyung Hee – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2007
According to Csikszentmihalyi (1988), creativity is a very complex interaction among a person, a field, and a culture. In keeping with this approach, a look at Asian culture in relation to its impact on creativity is in order. While people may vary in their native capacity for creativity, it is in the individual's interaction with the macrocosm…
Descriptors: Creativity, Asian Culture, Creative Activities, Confucianism
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Dalbey, Richard O. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2007
From 1992 to 1994, the author was a visiting professor at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration (Nagoya Shoka Daigaku), a private 4-year coeducational university located on the grounds of a modern campus on the outskirts of Nagoya. It is the only university for commerce and business administration in the area and has…
Descriptors: Rote Learning, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Kvavilashvili, Lia; Fisher, Laura – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
The present research examined self-reported rehearsal processes in naturalistic time-based prospective memory tasks (Study 1 and 2) and compared them with the processes in event-based tasks (Study 3). Participants had to remember to phone the experimenter either at a prearranged time (a time-based task) or after receiving a certain text message…
Descriptors: Motivation, Cues, Memorization, Memory
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Scott, Tony – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2008
In order to examine how large-scale testing affects writing pedagogy and students' composition processes, the author conducted a study that centered on two high school senior English classes in the state of Kentucky. Since 1991, Kentucky has implemented a large-scale writing assessment and system of teacher and school accountability. Generating…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Writing Processes, Measures (Individuals)
Boucquey, Thierry; Flores, Karina; Kramer, Julia; McPherson, Laura; Pettit, Maggie; Silverstein, Hana; Tjuanakis, Emily – Eye on Education, 2007
Stimulating, engaging, and effective, the games and activities in this book offers students alternatives to learning by rote or performing drills. This book makes it easy for teachers to develop their linguistic functions through active learning. The specific skills and vocabulary taught in each game or activity is highlighted, as are the…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Rote Learning, Active Learning, Educational Games
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Mowlaie, Bahram – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
Ability to retrieve information is so important that Chastain (1976) and Brown (2000) do not consider learners to have learned something if they cannot remember it. This ability can also have practical significance too, since it can lead to successes at the exam time. Due to both theoretical and practical reasons, any method that can help the…
Descriptors: Expectation, Rote Learning, Mnemonics, Foreign Countries
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Ericsson, K. Anders; Roring, Roy W.; Nandagopal, Kiruthiga – High Ability Studies, 2007
The authors are pleased with commentators' willingness to respond to their target article's challenge to identify observable reproducible phenomena that could be widely accepted as strong scientific evidence for innate talent. In this reply, the authors have organized the ideas in the commentaries into three general categories, namely the…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Reader Response, Rote Learning, Creative Thinking
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Abdelahmeed, Hala – International Journal of Special Education, 2007
A systematic review of literature in the area of counting in Down syndrome was conducted to identify and analyze ability to count of children with Down syndrome. We firstly reviewed the most famous theories which have explained how typically developing children acquire counting, and then we discussed how children with Down syndrome acquire…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Down Syndrome, Computation, Mathematics Skills
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Mori, Yoshiko; Shimizu, Hideko – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This study aims at identifying interpretable factors underlying Japanese language learners' attitudes toward "kanji" and their self-reported "kanji" learning strategies. It also examines the relationship between the two sets of belief factors. A questionnaire survey was conducted among Japanese language students at nine universities in the United…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Universities, Learning Strategies, Metacognition
McGuire, John Michael – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2007
This article provides an explanation for why the Critical Thinking (CT) movement has failed to make significant inroads into the Korean education system, notwithstanding the fact that it addresses and seeks to rectify a widely acknowledged weakness of that system, namely, its over-reliance on teacher-centered instructional methodologies involving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Values, Korean Culture
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Watters, Dianne J.; Watters, James J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This study is an investigation of the epistemological beliefs and study habits of students undertaking first-year courses in Biological Chemistry and Biochemistry. In particular, we were interested in the relationship between students' epistemological beliefs about learning and knowledge, approaches to learning, and achievement. The study adopted…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sciences, Biochemistry, Study Habits
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White-Clark, Renee; DiCarlo, Maria; Gilchriest, Nancy, Sister – High School Journal, 2008
The ultimate goal of high school mathematics teachers is to create a meaningful learning environment that is conducive to teaching students the necessary concepts for academic achievement. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that many secondary educators still teach in a rote lecture style that focuses on the teacher providing information to passive,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Tallmadge, G. Kasten; Shearer, James W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Anxiety, Interaction, Learning, Learning Processes
Duncan, K. D. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1971
Whenever a fixed series of steps must be learned, the question arises as to the order in which they should be brought to mastery and any prompts used in the lesson withdrawn." The author examines the proposition that prompts should start to fade at or near the middle of a learning sequence. (Editor/AK)
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Educational Research, Learning Activities, Prompting
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Cooperman, Edwin W. – Journal of Psychology, 1980
Field independent subjects had significantly higher scores on both verbal reasoning and rote learning tasks, tending to support the hypothesis that cognitive style is a measure of general intelligence. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, College Students, Intelligence
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