Enhancing the Quality of Learning: Dispositions, Instruction, and Learning Processes - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521199425 ISBN 13: 9780521199421

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Riassunto

This book reviews current research on the nature of high quality learning and the factors that facilitate or inhibit it.

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Informazioni sugli autori

John R. Kirby is a Professor of Educational Psychology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of McGill University and the University of Alberta. Prior to 1987, he taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been president of the Canadian Association for Educational Psychology and a member of the Board of the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction and the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. His research interests concern the psychology of reading and learning from text. Current research projects include the development of the cognitive processes underlying learning to read (especially phonological awareness, naming speed, orthographic processing and morphological awareness), dyslexia in university students, cognitive processes in reading comprehension and learners' use of text and graphics in studying. He has published 5 books and more than 100 research articles.

Michael J. Lawson is Professor of Education at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Until recently he was Director of the Educational Futures Research Institute at the university, where a focus of his work was establishing school-university research partnerships. He is a member of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the American Educational Research Association. A graduate of Monash University and the University of Alberta, his teaching and research focus on applications of cognitive psychology to teaching and learning, particularly the use of strategies for learning in classroom and study situations. In recent years his research has been concerned with teachers' facilitation of student use of learning strategies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521199425
• ISBN 13: 9780521199421
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 414
• Redattore: Kirby John R., Lawson Michael J.
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