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Dooley, Karen – Australian Educational Researcher, 2003
Education Queensland's New Basics project has extended conceptions of "equity" to incorporate dimensions such as higher order thinking and student control of classroom activity. This requires a critique of the outcomes attained by even high achieving students. It is therefore useful to interrogate professional discourses that shape…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Equal Education
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Beirne-Smith, Mary – Exceptional Children, 1991
Twenty primary-aged students with learning disabilities were tutored by nondisabled students in grades 3-6. Tutored students' performance on single-digit addition facts improved compared to a no-treatment control group. There were no significant differences between two tutoring procedures: a counting-on approach and a rote-memorization approach.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Hargett, Melissa Q.; And Others – 1994
Although research over the past 20 years has examined the dynamics of student learning, most initial studies focused on how scholastic aptitude tests and teacher rating scales predicted academic success. This study attempts to determine the relationship between scholastic aptitude and three approaches to learning: (1) presage; (2) process; and (3)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1980
Focusing on how teachers can devise instructional routines to help students learn to learn, this paper discusses mechanisms for training students to devise their own strategies for learning. Because of the dominance of deliberate memory strategies in training research, the paper begins with a brief consideration of such literature, then proceeds…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Stinnett, Ray D.; Prehm, Herbert J. – 1969
Rote learning and retention performance was studied as a function of method used in original learning and as a function of intellectual level. Sixty educable mentally retarded and 60 mentally normal junior high school students were randomly selected and assigned to one of three treatment groups, each learning to a different criterion, for each…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences, Learning
Levie, W. Howard, Ed. – Viewpoints, 1973
Centrally concerned with research which investigated how people learn from pictures, this issue of "Viewpoints" provides a series of review articles and a bibliography. The first article reviews recent research using adult subjects in commonly used psychological research paradigms--recognition memory, recall associate learning--and introduces…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Color, Learning
Schramm, Wilbur – 1969
"Good teaching" is notoriously difficult to measure. It may be possible, though, to say where a teacher stands on a scale of development which has four stages. In the first stage, the authority is the teacher, and the student gives back rote responses. In the second stage, the authority is the text or syllabus, and the student asks…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Improvement, Individualized Instruction
Pogrow, Stanley – Principal, 1988
The Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) program uses microcomputers to help high risk students master basic thinking processes, grasp course content, and apply learned information in various problem-solving situations. Specifically, HOTS aids students with metacognition, inference from context, and generalization skills. It also improves…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, High Risk Students
Sawano, Yukiko – 1997
Although Japanese society has long valued and practiced lifelong learning, it has not yet been successful in building an ethic that prizes learning, teaches creativity, and includes everyone. Bureaucratic and legal mechanisms undertaken in Japan to promote lifelong learning have included the establishment of Lifelong Learning Councils, a system…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wagner, Daniel A.; Lotfi, Abdelhamid – Comparative Education Review, 1980
This paper discusses present forms of traditional Islamic (Quranic) education in Morocco in the light of modernization. Also considered is the potential impact of such traditional pedagogy on various cognitive abilities, whose growth is sometimes said to have been stunted by such experiences. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Education
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Elliott, Portia C. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1980
The aims of the article are: (1) to outline the general tenets of the "back to basics" movements; (2) to indicate how these tenets go counter to emerging research on hemispheric specialization; and (3) to suggest methods which are brain-compatible and likely to produce competent creative problem solvers. (Author/TG)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cerebral Dominance, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tinkham, Thomas – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Comparison of the attitudes of Japanese and American high school students toward rote learning and more "creative" learning and their performance on rote learning tasks revealed that Japanese students viewed rote learning more positively than Americans and performed significantly better on rote-based second-language word recall and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, High School Students, High Schools
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Nelson, Laurie – Reading Psychology, 1989
Describes the nature of the developmental spelling continuum. Considers the common instructional concerns of word selection, yearly and weekly routines, and organizing to meet the needs of poor spellers against the developmental backdrop. (MG)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Duan, Doris Weili; Cuvo, Anthony J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1996
This study compared six adults' learning of English names for Chinese visual characters, through prototype instruction (in which participants were taught the meaning of the distinctive feature of multicomponent characters) and rote instruction (in which participants traced the character and wrote its translation). Participants learned more rapidly…
Descriptors: Adults, Chinese, Concept Teaching, Ideography
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Wharton, Charlotte; Bourgerie, Dana S. – CALICO Journal, 1994
Describes "SuperMemo," a memorization tool that uses an automated flashcard scheme that can include sound and graphics in the database of study items. Based on the learner's performance, "SuperMemo" schedules items to appear for review. Xia Li Ba Ren ("common person" in Chinese) is the name of a Chinese word processor that runs with a standard…
Descriptors: Chinese, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Reviews, Databases
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