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Creative Thinking Instruction for Aboriginal Children.
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Ritchie, 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
Learning in Formal and Informal Contexts: Conceptions and Strategies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander University Students.
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Boulton-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
Assimilating Complex Information.
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Pollock, E.; Chandler, P.; Sweller, J. – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Used a 2-phase, isolated-interacting elements learning approach in 4 experiments involving 22, 25, 18, and 18 vocational education students or apprentices of high-school age in Australia. Results provide powerful evidence that for certain groups of learners, information is better learned through the isolated-interacting elements instructional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Interaction
Secondary Teachers' Conceptions of Teaching and Learning.
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Boulton-Lewis, G. M.; Smith, D. J. H.; McCrindle, A. R.; Burnett, P. C.; Campbell, K. J. – Learning and Instruction, 2001
Conducted a phenomenographic analysis of the conceptions of teaching and learning held by 16 secondary school teachers in 2 Australian schools. Identifies four categories derived from pooled data of the ways in which these teachers thought about teaching and learning, their teaching strategies, and their focus on student or content. (SLD)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers
Failure-Avoidance: Parenting, the Achievement Environment of the Home and Strategies for Reduction
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Thompson, Ted – Learning and Instruction, 2004
This paper draws together the as yet nascent literature on the development of failure-avoidant patterns of behaviour. These are behaviours intended to minimise risk to self-worth in the event of failure, thereby avoiding the negative impact of poor performance in terms of damage to self-worth. Self-worth protection, self-handicapping, impostor…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Failure
The Perception of Math and Math Education in the Rural Midwest. Working Paper No. 37
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Lucas, David M.; Fugitt, Jamie – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2007
Using the qualitative research method known as folknography, the authors led a research team to the heart of Illinois farm country to ask the question "What are the perceptions of the people of the Midwest concerning math and math education?" A review of the literature includes Canadian and Australian references on the topic, as well as…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Students
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