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Peer reviewedRitchie, Stephen M.; Edwards, John – Learning and Instruction, 1996
A study involving 22 Australian Aboriginal students, age about 11 years, and 12 controls found that a thinking skills program, the Cognitive Research Trust Program, can enhance their creative thinking in mainstream classrooms, but did not improve scholastic aptitude, academic achievement, thinking approaches, self-concept as a thinker, or locus of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Creative Thinking, Indigenous Populations
Peer reviewedBoulton-Lewis, Gillian M.; Marton, Ference; Lewis, David C.; Wilss, Lynn A. – Learning and Instruction, 2000
Studied the conceptions of formal learning held by 22 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from 3 Australian universities, a group with a high attrition rate in tertiary education. Results show that these students view and approach university learning in much the same way as other students, but the strategies these students used did not…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indigenous Populations
