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Shank, Gary; And Others – Educational Technology, 1994
Introduces the concept of abductive reasoning; discusses its importance for instructional designers in education; and describes the development of a computer program called the Abductive Reasoning Tool (ART) that helps students learn and understand abductive logic. Highlights include abduction and creativity, and field-testing ART with…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware
Download full textBoss, Roberta – 1985
The approach to writing as a process of problem-solving through experimentation is used in a sentence-expansion technique for college-level remedial English. Students are presented with an uninteresting, two-sentence story that they expand by experimentation, building confidence in their knowledge of appropriate sentence structure and grammar. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Creative Thinking, English (Second Language)
