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Direct linkCherry, Nita L. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
This paper suggests that complex practice dilemmas call for thick stories of masterful practice that don't ignore the tensions and ambiguities involved. The paper draws on an Australian study of policing as a fruitful example. Academic commentary suggests policing is beset with practice dilemmas unique in their complexity. However, empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving
Mulcahy, Robert Sean – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
When a course designed around cooperative, problem-centered instruction attracts learners with a wide range of experience in the topic, should learners be grouped heterogeneously or homogeneously in terms of their relative expertise? In this study, learners were randomly distributed between the two types of groups; learning gains, satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Adult Students, Professional Development
Lu, Jingyan; Lajoie, Susanne P. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
This study investigated the collaborative decision-making and communicative discourse of groups of learners engaged in a simulated medical emergency in two conditions. In one condition subgroups used a traditional whiteboard (TW group) to document medical arguments on how to solve a medical emergency. In the other condition subgroups used…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Cooperative Learning, Decision Making, Educational Technology
