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Retno Mustika Dewi; Sri Umi Mintarti Widjaja; Agung Haryono; Hari Wahyono – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Economic man ("homo economicus") in the view of classical economics is an individual who is independent, autonomous, and rational, who pursue maximum satisfaction with minimum costs. However, as a human being, we often make irrational or unreasonable decisions because of cognitive biases. The irrationality of the individual due to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Instructional Materials
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Li, Zhan – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This case study examines an under-explored domain of teaching, namely, teachers' use of curriculum materials to enact instructions. It focuses on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers' enactment of instructions through utilising prescribed textbooks in Higher Education (HE) in China. Drawing on interviews and lesson observations from two…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Beasley, Warren F.; Heikkinen, Henry W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1983
Reports research into the design and application of physical and mental practice strategies for the development of laboratory psychomotor skills of freshman chemistry students (N=360). Design of instruction materials used (focusing skills using balance, pipet, and buret and skills in quantitative volumetric analysis), evaluation of strategies, and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, College Science, Higher Education
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Herron, J. Dudley – Journal of Chemical Education, 1985
Suggests a model of human cognition by describing similarities between human and electronic computers. This model might guide the development of software so that it is sufficiently powerful and flexible to be of value to human computers as they construct new knowledge in chemistry. (JN)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, College Science, Computer Software
Hong, Eunsook – 1992
This paper presents a model for systematic instructional design that includes mental model analysis together with the procedures used in developing computer-based instructional materials in the area of statistical hypothesis testing. The instructional design model is based on the premise that the objective for learning is to achieve expert-like…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Formative Evaluation, Guidelines, Higher Education
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Buckner, Kathy; Davenport, Elisabeth – Education for Information, 1996
Discussion of multimedia networked learning products focuses on the development of materials for a class at Queen Margaret College (Scotland). Examines cognitive issues, logistical procedures, support issues, ownership of materials, and management issues. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Allen, Brockenbrough S.; And Others – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1989
Outlines curriculum reforms being made in the master's level educational technology program at San Diego State University. Topics discussed include technological changes and the roles of educational product designers; human information processing; knowledge base design; student design of educational adventure games; interactive video design; and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Curriculum Development
Hobbs, D. J. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1987
Description of a study which formulated a model of the cognitive processes involved in learning statistics material via computer assisted learning (CAL) focuses on mode of presentation (aural or visual), sequence of the material, and previous mathematical experience. Textual analysis is discussed and implications of the results for design of CAL…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Marland, Percy; And Others – Distance Education, 1984
Describes a process-tracing study which investigated study approaches adopted by four distance learners enrolled in the Bachelor of Education Program at James Cook University and their mental processes when learning from distance-teaching materials in order to identify textual features which activated mental processes for use in textual design.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Design Requirements, Distance Education
Osborne, Roger; Schollum, Brendan – 1981
In the action-research phase of the Learning in Science Project, four groups of people worked on problems identified in the project's second (in-depth) phase. The Physics action-research group considered problems related to the teaching and learning of ideas associated with force and motion, suggesting that children's ideas of these concepts might…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Science, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Reeves, Thomas C.; Dehoney, Joanne – 1998
The work reported in this paper is part of an ongoing qualitative study of faculty uses of the Internet at the University of Georgia. The goal of the study is to categorize the functions of "class pages" (i.e., World Wide Web sites that have been personally developed by instructors to support traditional face-to-face classes) from both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Computer Uses in Education, Content Analysis