Thinking and Learning Skills: What Do We Expect of Students?

Author(s): John Kendall, Susan Ryan, Sandra Weeks, Alan Alpert, Laurie Moore

Audience(s): Policymakers and Administrators

Product Description:

This descriptive study identifies the thinking and learning skills that students should acquire, as described in standards documents from state departments of education, national subject-area organizations, and national standards documents.

Key Ideas:

The findings are organized by the type of mental process:

• Cognition—What skills are expected of students
• Meta-cognition—What students are expected to know about how they learn
• Self-system—What students are expected to learn about their attention and motivation to learn

APA Citation:

Kendall, J. S., Ryan, S., Weeks, S., Alpert, A., Schwols, A., & Moore, L. (2008). Thinking and learning skills: What do we expect of students? Denver, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.