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Framing Student Development Theory
This chapter takes a student development theory-based approach to supporting international students on U.S. campuses. The authors briefly trace the...
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The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion
Cognitive load theory has been in development since the 1980s. Much of the impetus for that development has come from firstly, replication failures...
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Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking
Our technological, information-rich society thrives because of scientific thinking. However, a comprehensive theory of the development of scientific...
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Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice
This article reviews the embodied theoretical basis for the meaningful learning of abstract vocabulary and reviews selected educational programs that...
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A Theory of Knowledge Revision: The Development of the KReC Framework
In this paper, I discuss the inspiration, development, and further refinement of the Knowledge Revision Components framework (KReC; Kendeou &...
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Using self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student STEM interest and identity development
Students’ strongly positive STEM interest and identity predict their future study and career choices in a STEM field. STEM education studies...
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What Can Educational Psychology Learn From, and Contribute to, Theory Development Scholarship?
One of the field of psychology’s stated goals is to produce scholarship with findings that benefit the world. Over the last 10 years, psychology...
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Application of the system theory framework to the career development of Korean university students
This study investigates the applicability of the system theory framework (STF) to Korean university students with regard to their career development...
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Positioning theory as a framework for understanding the facilitation of professional development for educational leaders
The article addresses the problem of providing in-service education within government-led reform initiatives yet enhancing professionalism in the...
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Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load
According to cognitive load theory, learning can only be successful when instructional materials and procedures are designed in accordance with human...
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Does Industry Experience Influence Transferable Skills Instruction? Implications for Faculty Development and Culture Theory
A major focus of innovation in higher education today is to improve faculty teaching, especially their focus on students’ career readiness and...
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Religious education syllabus development and the need for education theory
Religious education in England is experiencing change of ‘spring tide’ proportions during the third decade of the twenty-first century. This paper...
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Theory of Child Language Development for Foreign Language Teaching: Theory of Semantic Perception
Based on the research of the existing language, we have adopted the practice of the study of English leap-forward teaching, and put forward a new...
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Self-authorship development in Chinese college students: a grounded theory approach
Chinese higher education institutions would be more effective in assisting college graduates to meet the requirements of an increasingly complex...
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Outdoor adventure education and constructive development theory: An inquiry into meaning making, growing up, and immunity to change
What does it mean to grow up? Why is it important? How does one measure it, and what factors make it so difficult to realize? This paper explores how...
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Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Although cognitive load theory research has studied factors associated with motivation, these literatures have primarily been developed in isolation...
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Grounded Theory
Grounded Theory (GT) was designed by two American sociologists, Barney Glaser (1930–) and Anselm Strauss (1916–1996), who presented in their seminal...
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Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation
In 2006, after receiving the Division 15 Career Award, Alexander delivered a keynote address entitled “Evolution of a Learning Theory: A Case Study.”...
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Instructional Transaction Theory (ITT)
Situating Merrill’s view of instructional designDesign theory and practice in the “cognitive revolutionCognitive revolution” pervasive from the 1960s...
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The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning
The cognitive theory of multimedia learning (Mayer, 2021, 2022), which seeks to explain how people learn academic material from words and graphics,...
