J.D. Bransford’s research while affiliated with American University and other places

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Publications (7)


Mind and brain
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January 2008

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3 Citations

J.D. Bransford

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A.L. Brown

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R.R. Cocking






Citations (6)


... The auditors were shareholders chosen by their fellow members, which allows for favoritism. Brown (1982) adds that auditors were required to perform the completeness of transactions contributed to the correct accounts and financial statements. Still, little attention was paid to the internal control environment of companies. ...

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Evolution of IT auditing in a nutshell – journey towards a dynamic landscape
Learning, remembering and understanding
  • Citing Article
  • January 1983

... 110) plays an important role in learning. Although much of the research on metacognition has dealt with learning and reading in the learner's native language ( for example, see reviews in Brown et al., 1983, andGarner, 1987), metacognition has not gone unnoticed in L2 research . Wenden ( 1987) and Reid ( 1987) document L2 learners' metacognitive knowledge of their own abilities and preferences for learning. ...

Learning, remembering, and understanding
  • Citing Article
  • January 1983

... Research has shown that knowledge of mathematics in preschool correlates .46 with 10th-grade math achievement (Stevenson & Newman, 1986) and successfully predicts math achievement through age 15 years even after accounting for early reading, cognitive skills, and family and child characteristics (Watts et al., 2014). For many topics and abilities, initial knowledge predicts learning and later knowledge (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2008;Jimerson, Egeland, & Teo, 1999;Thomson, Rowe, Underwood, & Peck, 2005;Wright, 1994). However, the effect of early knowledge of mathematics is unusually strong and notably persistent (Duncan, Claessens, & Engel, 2004). ...

Mind and brain
  • Citing Article
  • January 2008

... The situated perspective addresses this issue by considering the context-dependent nature of knowledge. Specifically, the situatedlearning perspective is based on the ideas that (a) "collective knowing" among groups complements learners' "individual knowing" (Greeno et al., 1996), and (b) the potential for successful learning transfer increases when the context of learning reflects the context of knowledge use (Bransford et al., 1999). However, a common issue in deploying situated learning-based pedagogies is the difficulty bridging current education with "authentically" situated activities (Herrington & Oliver, 1995). ...

Learning and transfer
  • Citing Article
  • January 2000

... Perbandingan antara situasi sebelum dan selepas inovasi dapat dirumuskan seperti berikut: Rajah di atas menunjukkan bahawa pendekatan visual berstruktur mampu meningkatkan keberkesanan pengajaran dan mempercepatkan proses pemahaman konsep murid (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000). ...

How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience and School
  • Citing Book
  • January 1999