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Schwartz, Marc S.; Fischer, Kurt W. – About Campus, 2006
Students learn important concepts and ways of thinking by building on their own actions and experiences. In much of higher education, the primacy of textbooks and the lectures that accompany them are inconsistent with the nature of student learning. Some students manage to learn despite the problems from this emphasis, but educators can do much…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Textbooks, Cognitive Psychology, Epistemology
Higginbotham-Wheat, Nancy – 1990
This review of the literature on five learner control variables in computer-based instruction concludes that: (1) pacing left to learner control has been found ineffective because learners tend to procrastinate or to exit lessons prematurely; (2) sequence, or content flow, has been an ineffective variable left under learner control since…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Learner Controlled Instruction, Pacing
Ambrose, Richard P. – 1988
The Central School, Field Local School District, which is located in rural Brimfield, Ohio, has been participating since 1980 in an ongoing demonstration project featuring all-day kindergartens. The school contains only kindergarten classrooms (7 classrooms with approximately 210 children). Central School has implemented a "Strategies in…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs, Kindergarten, Program Descriptions
Reckase, Mark D.; McKinley, Robert L. – 1982
A review of the literature was made of the various procedures for sequencing instructional units in individualized instruction programs. Procedures for validating sequences of instructional units, or learning hierarchies, were found to fall into two general categories. One category included procedures based on coefficients of dependence, while the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Mathematical Models
Tennyson, Robert D.; Boutwell, Richard C. – Educational Technology, 1974
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Educational Research, Instruction, Sequential Approach
Myers, Nancy A.; Myers, Jerome L. – J Exp Child Psychol, 1969
Research supported by University of Massachusetts Faculty Research Grant, National Institute of Mental Health grant MH-03803-06, and National Science Foundation grant GS-386.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
San Mateo Coll., CA. – 1968
This study determined (1) effect of high school bookkeeping on college accounting performance, (2) relationship of performance to potential measured by SCAT, (3) influence of first on subsequent study. For number one, five factors were studied: (1) whether bookkeeping was taken in high school, (2) at which high school, (3) how many courses, (4)…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Education, Comparative Analysis
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Business Education. – 1973
This is a series of achievement tests designed to accommodate the varying abilities of students enrolled in typewriting courses in school. The series consists of five levels of tests with alternate forms for each level. Each level is designed to cover ten weeks of classroom instruction and students are not required to take the tests at the same…
Descriptors: Performance Tests, Secondary School Students, Sequential Learning, State Programs
Talcott, Jan – 1971
The 11 progressive steps outlined in this document incorporate tactile, auditory, and visual exercises which take approximately two months to complete. These steps range from the simple task of having the children arrange three magazine pictures in sequential order and explain the arrangement, through reading a story segment to the children who…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Reading, Reading Skills, Sequential Approach
Dockstader, Steven L. – 1971
The purpose of these 2 experiments was to determine whether sequential response pattern behavior is affected by partial reinforcement in the same way as other behavior systems. The first experiment investigated the partial reinforcement extinction effects (PREE) in a sequential concept learning task where subjects were required to learn a…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Experimental Psychology, Extinction (Psychology), Feedback
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Pritchard, Ruie J. – English Journal, 1978
Urges teachers to sometimes reverse the order in which they present units on literature. (DD)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literature, Literature Appreciation, Secondary Education
Dunham, Paul, Jr. – Research Quarterly, 1977
The results of this study indicate that order of practice does have a significant effect on skill acquisition with sequential ordering (practice of a successive nature) being the most efficient method for improving bilateral skill acquisition. (MB)
Descriptors: Athletics, Instructional Design, Motor Development, Sequential Approach
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Furby, Lita – Human Development, 1972
A pretheoretical model of cognitive development is proposed which is based on the empirical establishment of Gagne's cumulative learning sequences. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensation (Concept), Conservation (Concept), Learning Theories
Aaron, Ira E. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt2, 1968
Reviews selected recent literature on sequence in reading skill instruction, taking into account samples of opinion about sequence and research in five areas. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Research Reviews (Publications), Sequential Learning
Balson, Maurice – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 4, Mathematics Instruction, Programed Instructional Materials
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