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Download full textWicker, Frank W.; And Others – 1977
This research was based on the assumption that the teaching of broadly generalizable cognitive skills should be a primary goal of education--that students can be taught to be better insight problem solvers outside of school by training in school and that they can be given the skills necessary for efficient discovery learning. The subjects were 116…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
