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Download full textAnderson, John R. – 1985
According to the ACT theory of skill acquisition, cognitive skills are encoded by a set of productions, which are organized according to a hierarchical goal structure. People solve problems in new domains by applying weak problem-solving procedures to declarative knowledge they have about this domain. From these initial problem solutions,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Experiments, Elementary Secondary Education
