Cognition & Learning
Cognition & Learning
The COGx Learning Framework explains the how cognitive skills interact to support our learning process while providing sample case studies of how we’ve addressed learning difficulties based on the learner’s unique needs.
Cognitive Areas Targeted
Description
Processing effectively refers to students who can focus (sustain their attention) while manipulating the information they are receiving (working memory) and effectively process the information (processing speed). These three interdependent skills are essential to processing information effectively. Processing information affects our ability to manage information (executive function) as well as our ability to store and retrieve (learn).
Results: Sample Case Studies
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Cognitive Areas Targeted
Description
Managing information effectively includes the ability to self-monitor, self-regulate, manage time, initiate tasks in a timely fashion, and other behaviors shared by successful learners. We use managing information interchangeably with developing Executive Function skills which are essential to academic performance and successful independent learning. Because Executive Function is reliant on Processing, we find that most students who manifest Executive Dysfunction struggle with Processing. Therefore, the cases highlighted for Executive Function (Managing) usually include Processing.
Results: Sample Case Studies
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Cognitive Areas Targeted
Description
Acquiring & Applying refers to one’s ability to store and retrieve information effectively. Memory is critical to learning as it serves as the foundation for knowledge. Memory is strengthened by mastering the techniques we rely on to encode information and the strategies that are most effective to retrieve information. Sophisticated learners know and apply these.
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Cognitive Areas Targeted
Description
Struggling to process information effectively can affect our ability to encode/store information, which compromises our memory. In other words, a root cause processing can cause a domino effect on all aspects of learning, including our ability to encode and retrieve information effectively.
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Cognitive Areas Targeted
Description
Students who struggle processing information effectively tend to demonstrate symptoms of executive dysfunction: difficulty with organization, planning, impulsivity, difficulty shifting between tasks, and/or managing time. These symptoms are commonly caused by a relative weakness in attention, processing speed and/or working memory, which are interdependent skills for processing information effectively. It is quite common for students diagnosed as dyslexic, or ADHD, or twice exceptional, to require programs that target the area weak and the behavioral symptoms
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Cognitive Areas Targeted
Description
Learning can often be completely sabotaged by a few core cognitive skills that are essential. This can occur when processing affects executive functions and compromises the ability to store and retrieve information (memory). If a student is struggling with all three components of learning, then it is critical to their success that a program can holistically address the deficits sequentially. For example, it would be futile to raise awareness (metacognition) for a student who lacks the skills to process, manage and/or acquire and apply information. This could magnify frustrations and/or create negative associations to learning.
Results: Sample Case Studies
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