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Download full textSchoenfeld-Tacher, Regina; Persichitte, Kay A.; Jones, Loretta L. – 2000
This study sought to answer the question, Do all students benefit equally from the use of a hypermedia Goal-Based Scenario (GBS)? GBS is a subcategory of anchored instruction. The correlation between the demographic variables and achievement and specific cognitive variables and achievement was explored using a lesson on DNA, and was tested on…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Computer Simulation
Szabo, S. E.; And Others – 1986
Students and instructors may be frustrated with students' lack of understanding of sociological concepts. We suggest that the difficulty of teaching and learning sociology is that sociological concepts and relationships require the use of abstract reasoning patterns. Many students are unaccustomed to using these abstract reasoning patterns. We use…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Tests, Critical Thinking
