Technical Training: An Application of a Strategy for Learning Structural and Functional Information.

Larson, Celia O.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1986

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Technical Training: An Application of a Strategy for Learning Structural and Functional Information.

Larson, Celia O.; And Others

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v11 n3 p217-28 Jul 1986

The present experiment tested a strategy, developed from principles on general text processing, for learning technical material. The effectiveness of cooperative learning was examined as a technique for learning technical information. Results showed that cooperative learning and technical learning strategies were effective for acquiring structural and functional information. (JAZ)

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Students, Cooperation, Educational Research, Higher Education, Language Processing, Learning Strategies, Mnemonics, Recall (Psychology), Technical Education

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