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Ross, John A.; Maynes, Florence J. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1983
Instructional design strategy for improving problem solving is presented. The strategy entails selecting an appropriate domain of problem-solving tasks, learning hierarchies, teaching methods and assembling of learning materials, and designing teacher training and evaluation. Obstacles to be overcome and directions for future research are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
Clark, Sandra – 1968
Benjamin Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" can be used effectively to develop and evaluate a sequential secondary-school curriculum in literature, regardless of the school's content emphasis or curricular philosophy. The two available volumes of the "Taxonomy"--dealing with the cognitive domain of knowledge, skills,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design
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Tillema, H. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Ninety-five secondary students were given textbook material in which two sequence variations (web and linear) were used in relation to the information processing strategies (serialist or holistic) demonstrated by the students. Users of the web-structured sequence scored higher on concept retention. (Author/JJD)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
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Winn, William – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1988
Reports on students' study and drawing of five electronic circuit diagrams. Concludes that the success of the students depended upon the amount of detail in the instructional diagrams. (RT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Holistic Approach
Usnick, Virginia E. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1992
This study compared the effectiveness of teaching multidigit addition of whole numbers without regrouping prior to teaching it with regrouping to teaching multidigit addition with and without regrouping simultaneously. Pretest/posttest-delayed posttest results of second grade students (n=151) from seven randomly assigned classrooms indicated no…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Computation
Tennyson, Robert D.; And Others – Educational Communication and Technology, 1985
This study used secondary education students to investigate three instructional design variables hypothesized to improve rule learning. Results show structuring information by a schematic analysis improves learning over taxonomic analysis; response-sensitive sequency adapting instruction for generalization, then discrimination, improves learning;…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 11