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Peer reviewedYoung, Michael F.; Barab, Sasha A. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1999
Anchored instruction calls for the establishment of a macrocontext to "anchor" instruction within a realistic situation. Evidence is provided that video anchors encourage students to adopt certain contrived goals over their more naturalistic goals. Suggests that goals that enable the problem solver to detect the "raison d'etre"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
