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Reigeluth, Charles M.; Schwartz, Ellen – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1989
Description of computer-based simulations focuses on the instructional functions of simulations and phases in the learning processes that should be activated by educational simulations. Highlights include a general model for simulation design; degree of learner control; complexity of the content; the role of the learner; and motivational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design, Content Analysis
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Clem, Christina; Feathers, Karen M. – Language Arts, 1986
Explores a five-year-old's writing about his liking for spiders to learn about the relationship between children's investigations of the world as information (content) and their use of language to do so. Discusses implications for teachers of children's ability to deal with concepts and vocabulary associated with content materials. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1981
Intended to provide a publication outlet for systematic and substantive reviews and syntheses, both empirical and theoretical, and for integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on what children learn when learning to read, and how this learning can be facilitated. The first chapter of the volume offers an analysis of writing…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Early Reading